Simple Minds' leaders Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill’s retrace their creative journey and enduring bromance in joint memoir.

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.

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 ...

Formed in 1977 by Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill, Simple Minds (hailing from Glasgow, Scotland) were previously known as Johnny And The Self Abusers. Under that name they released one single (Saints ...

On Thursday night, Scotland’s Simple Minds — which was born the same year as Sarah Michelle Gellar, James Van Der Beek and Jon “Napoleon Dynamite” Heder (1977) — wrap up its first U.S. tour in over a ...

Formed in Grangemouth, Scotland in 1979, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde, and Will Heggie called themselves Cocteau Twins. The name derived from the song “Cocteau Twins” by fellow ...

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 ...

Simple Minds is embarking on its most extensive U.S. tour in 40 years, and San Diego is on its itinerary. The Scottish rock band, best known for its international chart-topping 1985 hit, “Don’t You ...

Some bands that aspire to arenas or have played them, can’t recalibrate their show to a smaller space. The lead singer of an unknown band can look like a wannabe Bono when making broad gestures and ...

The triple bill on Saturday, June 21 at the Pine Knob Music Theatre was in some ways defined by one of Soft Cell’s songs — “Nostalgia Machine.” But rest assured that the old from all three bands ...