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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DENVER — Simple Minds has announced plans for its biggest North American concert tour in four decades. The U.K. rock band announced a major tour of the United States and Canada on Monday morning with ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Jim Kerr is the lead singer in the notorious ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve been coming here to my haven a lot to work and listen to music while my new Glasgow house is being refurbished. But then being in a rock band I’m always on the move, and the one thing that goes ...