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, ...

For most Americans, the Scottish rock group Simple Minds will always be synonymous with their number one hit from 1985, “Don't You (Forget About Me),” from the John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

If you're a songwriter, getting rejected by musicians can sting. If you penned rock songs for a specific person and got ...

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 ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

The journey of Simple Minds started in the gritty punk clubs of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1977, continuing to small theaters and halls and then on to massive stadium-rock celebrations. Along the way, it ...

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 ...

Don't you... forget about me. Ever since those lyrics rolled during the end credits of John Hughes' 1985 hit movie "The Breakfast Club," that Simple Minds song became ...