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, ...

Consider 2025 a victory lap of sorts for Simple Minds. In 1985, the Scottish outfit played Live Aid in Philadelphia and released Once Upon a Time, the band’s seventh studio album and one that yielded ...

Some 45 years or so after making their initial appearance during Britain’s post-punk era, Simple Minds mark their return courtesy of not one, but two new live albums, albeit each with a different ...

There was a common trajectory for the great new wave artists of the '80s. With many of them having come out of punk in the '70s, their beginnings were often more avant-garde than they might be given ...

Scottish band Simple Minds have always been something of an anomaly. Formed in 1977, they released a string of underground post-punk/new wave albums before striking it big in the mid-’80s with the ...

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Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr says he and guitarist Charlie Burchill are always working on songs. It’s not like it was during the Glasgow-based rock band’s rise to fame in the early ’80s, when the ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Jim Kerr of the Scottish rock group Simple Minds has a pretty simple view of life. "We're incredibly fortunate,'' said Kerr in a call to his home in Glasgow to talk about the band's ...

Simple Minds, who play Roseland Ballroom in New York City on Thursday night, were the greatest new wave band of the 1980s. And they achieved that greatness before most Americans (but not all) had even ...

Simple Minds decided to copy a Canadian band that isn't exactly huge in the US or anywhere else - they took an MGB song, and copied the tune, the bassline, the general structure of the song, and the ...

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 ...