Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)" topped the charts after it was released on "The Breakfast Club" soundtrack in 1985. “It sounded a little generic to us,” Jim Kerr, lead singer of the band, ...
Presented with the biggest hit they'd ever have, Simple Minds initially balked. "We are Simple Minds; we don't do songs that sound like Simple Minds," frontman Jim Kerr remembered saying. "We are ...
How could we forget about them? This week in 1985, Scotland's Simple Minds landed an indelible number-one on the wing of a smash that soundtracked the final scene of the era's seminal teen dramedy The ...
Mention Simple Minds to most music fans, and the first thing that most likely comes to mind is “Don’t You (Forget About Me).” The memorable song from the 1985 movie The Breakfast Club that went to No.
The band, currently on tour, also explains why they keep making new music, even though "obviously records don't sell like they used to." By Gary Graff Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill have been playing ...
Five songs into their set, Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr smiled at the audience and said, after taking a deep breath, “We’re exhausted already!” He was kidding, of course, though it would be ...
Music is as easy as A, B, C for most people in rock’n’roll, but for Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr it’s a case of Eh? B, C. The star – whose hits with the group include Don’t You (Forget About Me) – can ...
On Thursday night, Scotland’s Simple Minds — which was born the same year as Sarah Michelle Gellar, James Van Der Beek and Jon “Napoleon Dynamite” Heder (1977) — wrap up its first U.S. tour in over a ...
It’s good to have integrity about your music and the direction you want it to take. But when you get stubborn about it, to the point that it might actually work against folks hearing your music, it ...
The legendary Scottish rock band has a new documentary 'Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible' Dean Chalkley The documentary 'Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible' details the history of the legendary ...