Simple Minds celebrate the 40th anniversary of Once Upon A Time, the 1985 album that made them global superstars with Alive And Kicking and Sanctify Yourself.

It's 1985, the Breakfast Club is in the Cinema and its theme song, 'Don't You Forget About Me', has just helped break Simple Minds in America. The most successful moment in their career is regarded by ...

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, ...

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.

Jim Kerr had forgotten all about it. The vocalist for Scottish rock band Simple Minds had only vaguely remembered when a somewhat inebriated guy had handed the band a cassette backstage after an Los ...

When the Scottish band Simple Minds made their live debut on stage at the Satellite City club in the city center of Glasgow on January 17, 1978, it’s fair to wonder just how big the four teenagers in ...

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 ...

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When Simple Minds first heard “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” — their No. 1 single that would serve as the theme song and teenage anthem of the 1985 Brat Pack classic “The Breakfast Club” — it wasn’t ...