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Dont You (Forget About Me)
Other Songs 18-18 20th Century Promised Land 30 Frames A Second 70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall 7 Deadly Sins A Brass Band in African Chimes A Life Shot In Black and White Act Of Love African Skies Alive Alive And Kicking Alive andamp; Kicking All For You All The Things She Said All Tomorrows Parties American American [Extended] And The Band Played On Androgyny Angel Underneath My Skin Banging On The Door Barrowland Star Being Boiled Belfast Child Big Sleep Biko Blood Type O Book Of Brilliant Things Boys From Brazil Bring On The Dancing Horses "C" Moon Cry Like A Baby Cacophony Calling Your Name Capital City Careful In Career Carnival Carnival (Shelter in a Suitcase) Celebrate Celtic Strings Changeling Chelsea Girl Citizen Citizen (Dance of Youth) Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel Come A Long Way Constantinople Line Criminal World Cry Cry Again Dance To The Music Dancing Barefoot Destiny Did You Ever? Different World Different World (Taormina. Me) Dirty Old Town [Live] Disconnected Dolphins Dont You E55 East At Easter European Son Face In The Sun Factory Film Theme For Your Pleasure Ghost Dancing Ghostdancing Ghostrider Glitterball Glittering Prize Gloria Graffiti Soul Great Leap Forward Great Leap Forwards Hello I Love You Home Homosapien Hunter And The Hunted Hunter & The Hunted Hypnotised I Travel I Wish You Were Here If I Had Wings In Dreams In Trance As Mission Jerusalem Kaleidoscope Kant-Kino Kick It Kick It In Killing Andy Warhol King Is White And In The Crowd Kiss Kiss and Fly Kiss andamp; Fly Kiss & Fly Kiss The Ground Lazy Lately League Of Nations Let It All Come Down Let It All Come Down (Credits) Let The Children Speak Let There Be Love Lies Life In A Day Light Travels Lightning Little Bitch Love Song Love Song/Sun City/Dance to the Music Love Will Tear Us Apart Magic Mandela Day Moscow Underground Murder Story My Life Naked Eye Neon Lights New Gold Dream New Sunshine Morning Night Music No Cure Oh Jungleland Once Upon A Time One Step Closer Pablo Picasso Pleasantly Disturbed Premonition Promised You A Miracle Real Life Real To Real Rivers Of Ice Rockets Rockin' in the Free World Rocking In The Free World Room Sad Affair Sanctify Yourself Saturday Girl Scar See The Lights Seeing out an Angel Seeing Out The Angel Sense of Discovery Seven Deadly Sins Seventy Cities As Love Brings The Fall Shake Off The Ghosts Shes A River Sign O' the Times Silent Kiss Slave Nation Sleeping Girl Somebody Up There Likes You Someone Someone Somewhere In Summertime Song For The Tribes Sons And Fascination Soul Crying Out Sound In Seventy Cities Soundtrack for Every Heaven Spaceface Speed Your Love To Me Stand By Love Stars Stars Will Lead the Way Stay Visible Stranger Street Fighting Years Street Hassle Subway Sex Sugar Summer Sun City Superman V Supersoul Sweat In Bullet Take A Step Back Tears Of A Guy The American The Floating World The Jeweller Part 2 The Kick Inside Of Me The Man Who Sold The World The Needle And The Damage Done The Signal and the Noise Theme For Great Cities Thirty Frames A Second This Earth That You Walk Upon This Fear Of Gods This Is It This Is Your Land This Time Today I Died Again Tonight Travelling Man Twist / Run / Repulsion Twist/Run/Repulsion Underneath The Ice Up On The Catwalk Utopia Veldt Walk Between Worlds Wall Of Love War Babies Wasteland Waterfront When Spirits Rise When Two Worlds Collide White Hot Day Woman Wonderful In Young Life
Other Songs 18-18 20th Century Promised Land 30 Frames A Second 70 Cities as Love Brings the Fall 7 Deadly Sins A Brass Band in African Chimes A Life Shot In Black and White Act Of Love African Skies Alive Alive And Kicking Alive andamp; Kicking All For You All The Things She Said All Tomorrows Parties American American [Extended] And The Band Played On Androgyny Angel Underneath My Skin Banging On The Door Barrowland Star Being Boiled Belfast Child Big Sleep Biko Blood Type O Book Of Brilliant Things Boys From Brazil Bring On The Dancing Horses "C" Moon Cry Like A Baby Cacophony Calling Your Name Capital City Careful In Career Carnival Carnival (Shelter in a Suitcase) Celebrate Celtic Strings Changeling Chelsea Girl Citizen Citizen (Dance of Youth) Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel Come A Long Way Constantinople Line Criminal World Cry Cry Again Dance To The Music Dancing Barefoot Destiny Did You Ever? Different World Different World (Taormina. Me) Dirty Old Town [Live] Disconnected Dolphins Dont You E55 East At Easter European Son Face In The Sun Factory Film Theme For Your Pleasure Ghost Dancing Ghostdancing Ghostrider Glitterball Glittering Prize Gloria Graffiti Soul Great Leap Forward Great Leap Forwards Hello I Love You Home Homosapien Hunter And The Hunted Hunter & The Hunted Hypnotised I Travel I Wish You Were Here If I Had Wings In Dreams In Trance As Mission Jerusalem Kaleidoscope Kant-Kino Kick It Kick It In Killing Andy Warhol King Is White And In The Crowd Kiss Kiss and Fly Kiss andamp; Fly Kiss & Fly Kiss The Ground Lazy Lately League Of Nations Let It All Come Down Let It All Come Down (Credits) Let The Children Speak Let There Be Love Lies Life In A Day Light Travels Lightning Little Bitch Love Song Love Song/Sun City/Dance to the Music Love Will Tear Us Apart Magic Mandela Day Moscow Underground Murder Story My Life Naked Eye Neon Lights New Gold Dream New Sunshine Morning Night Music No Cure Oh Jungleland Once Upon A Time One Step Closer Pablo Picasso Pleasantly Disturbed Premonition Promised You A Miracle Real Life Real To Real Rivers Of Ice Rockets Rockin' in the Free World Rocking In The Free World Room Sad Affair Sanctify Yourself Saturday Girl Scar See The Lights Seeing out an Angel Seeing Out The Angel Sense of Discovery Seven Deadly Sins Seventy Cities As Love Brings The Fall Shake Off The Ghosts Shes A River Sign O' the Times Silent Kiss Slave Nation Sleeping Girl Somebody Up There Likes You Someone Someone Somewhere In Summertime Song For The Tribes Sons And Fascination Soul Crying Out Sound In Seventy Cities Soundtrack for Every Heaven Spaceface Speed Your Love To Me Stand By Love Stars Stars Will Lead the Way Stay Visible Stranger Street Fighting Years Street Hassle Subway Sex Sugar Summer Sun City Superman V Supersoul Sweat In Bullet Take A Step Back Tears Of A Guy The American The Floating World The Jeweller Part 2 The Kick Inside Of Me The Man Who Sold The World The Needle And The Damage Done The Signal and the Noise Theme For Great Cities Thirty Frames A Second This Earth That You Walk Upon This Fear Of Gods This Is It This Is Your Land This Time Today I Died Again Tonight Travelling Man Twist / Run / Repulsion Twist/Run/Repulsion Underneath The Ice Up On The Catwalk Utopia Veldt Walk Between Worlds Wall Of Love War Babies Wasteland Waterfront When Spirits Rise When Two Worlds Collide White Hot Day Woman Wonderful In Young Life
Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1977, becoming best known internationally for their song "Don't You (Forget About Me)" (1985), which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. Other commercially successful singles include "Promised You a Miracle" (1982), "Glittering Prize" (1982), "Someone Somewhere in Summertime" (1982), "Waterfront" (1983), "Alive and Kicking" (1985), "Sanctify Yourself" (1986), "Let There Be Love" (1991), "She's a River" (1995), and the UK number one single "Belfast Child" (1989).
Simple Minds have achieved 24 top 40 singles on the UK Singles Chart, and 23 top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart, including five number one albums: Sparkle in the Rain (1984), Once Upon a Time (1985), Live in the City of Light (1987), Street Fighting Years (1989), and Glittering Prize 81/92 (1992). They have sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, and were the most commercially successful Scottish band of the 1980s. Simple Minds have had chart success in the United States, Australia, Germany, Spain, Italy and New Zealand. Despite various personnel changes (and the reduction of the core band to founder members Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill), they continue to record and tour.
In 2014, Simple Minds were awarded the Q Inspiration Award for their contribution to the music industry and an Ivor Novello Award in 2016 for Outstanding Song Collection from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors (BASCA). Other notable recognitions include nominations for both the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction and MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction for "Don't You (Forget About Me)" in 1985, nomination for the Brit Award for British Group in 1986 and for the American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group in 1987. "Belfast Child" was nominated for the Song of the Year at the Brit Awards 1990.
Singer Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill are the two members who have been with the band throughout its whole history, and the only current permanent members and songwriters. As of 2023, the other current members of the live and studio band are bassist Ged Grimes, drummer Cherisse Osei, backing singer Sarah Brown, guitarist and keyboardist Gordy Goudie and keyboardist Erik Ljunggren.
Notable former members include keyboardist Mick MacNeil, bassists Derek Forbes and John Giblin and drummers Brian McGee and Mel Gaynor.
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Simple Minds have achieved 24 top 40 singles on the UK Singles Chart, and 23 top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart, including five number one albums: Sparkle in the Rain (1984), Once Upon a Time (1985), Live in the City of Light (1987), Street Fighting Years (1989), and Glittering Prize 81/92 (1992). They have sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, and were the most commercially successful Scottish band of the 1980s. Simple Minds have had chart success in the United States, Australia, Germany, Spain, Italy and New Zealand. Despite various personnel changes (and the reduction of the core band to founder members Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill), they continue to record and tour.
In 2014, Simple Minds were awarded the Q Inspiration Award for their contribution to the music industry and an Ivor Novello Award in 2016 for Outstanding Song Collection from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors (BASCA). Other notable recognitions include nominations for both the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction and MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction for "Don't You (Forget About Me)" in 1985, nomination for the Brit Award for British Group in 1986 and for the American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group in 1987. "Belfast Child" was nominated for the Song of the Year at the Brit Awards 1990.
Singer Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill are the two members who have been with the band throughout its whole history, and the only current permanent members and songwriters. As of 2023, the other current members of the live and studio band are bassist Ged Grimes, drummer Cherisse Osei, backing singer Sarah Brown, guitarist and keyboardist Gordy Goudie and keyboardist Erik Ljunggren.
Notable former members include keyboardist Mick MacNeil, bassists Derek Forbes and John Giblin and drummers Brian McGee and Mel Gaynor.
Jim Kerr
Charlie Burchill
Ged Grimes
Sarah Brown
Mark Taylor
Gordy Goudie
Cherisse Osei
Erik Ljunggren
Genre(s): Post-punk, art rock, new wave, arena rock, synth-pop
Active From: 1977-present
Quotes:
"Don't You Forget About Me
Don't Don't Don't Don't
Don't You Forget About Me"
-Simple Minds
from Don't You (Forget About Me) (1985)
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Don't Don't Don't Don't
Don't You Forget About Me"
-Simple Minds
from Don't You (Forget About Me) (1985)
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