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Glasgow, United Kingdom (1977 – present)

Simple Minds is a Scottish rock band which achieved its greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band, from the South Side of Glasgow, produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s. Simple Minds has secured a string of successful hit singles, the best known being their #1 worldwide hit single “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”, from the soundtrack of the John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club and #3 worldwide hit single “Alive and Kicking”. The band has sold more than 40 million albums since 1979.

Founding members Jim Kerr (vocals) and Charlie Burchill (guitar, keyboards), along with drummer Mel Gaynor, are the core of the band, which currently features Andy Gillespie on keyboards and Ged Grimes on bass guitar.

Formed in late 1977 from the ashes of Johnny & the Self-Abusers, Simple Minds initially signed to Arista who recorded and released their first three albums. The musical changes Simple Minds went through in these first three albums shows how diverse their song range is. Tracks to compare would be Chelsea Girl, their first single with hints of Johnny And The Self Abusers, and I Travel an almost sounding track.

Virgin Records saw the potential in the band and in 1981 signed them up. The first Virgin Records release Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call was a double album, but later released as two single albums - Sons and Fascination and Sister Feelings Call.
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  • android1985

    new album for 2013, from what I heard. Also, looks like they're not repeating the setlist! Oh, I'd love to have seen and heard Hunter and the Hunted :)

    Tuesday evening

  • Lubricio

    See them in 1 hour in Oslo!! :))) Alive and kicking!

    Tuesday evening

  • Raphahead

    this band will never get old!

    Tuesday afternoon

  • wangyu199x

    new album?

    Tuesday afternoon

  • thefookable

    Thrilled to have witnessed the 4X5 + 1X6 Tour in Amsterdam (yes, we had 6 songs from Empires And Dance!!!!! Travel, Today I Died Again, Celebrate, This Fear Of Gods, Thirty Frames A Second, Room) . Also Hunter And The Hunted was superb!!

    Sunday evening

  • android1985

    OMG. Today's the day!

    last week

  • EugeneZhokhov

    "Everybody needs to feel respected not disconected..." Every song of Simple Minds is unique..

    20 days ago

  • Cry-Cry

    Nice band! I didn't know them before! but today I happened to buy one of their CD's - 'Black&White 050505'....and it's petty good!!!

    last month

  • Suhl

    http://www.lastfm.de/group/MICHAEL+SADLER+should+become+QUEEN+singer%21%21%21%21%21

    last month

  • infectedmodes

    Where's Hypnotised?

    last month

  • junkal28

    someone, somewhere? Not in the top?

    last month

  • Lamassum

    like

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  • priedits

    Street Fighting Years is like Bible to me.

    last month

  • beheaded_beast

    flawless band <3

    last month

  • seconds23

    In Trance as Mission (1981)

    last month

  • RAYOYTRUENO

    Life in a Day ,,, the best of the Simple Minds

    December 2011

  • leandro-27

    The Breakfast Club and Don't You (forget About Me) <3 8

    December 2011

  • negation_state

    first 5 albums 4life! [2]

    December 2011

  • Herr_Apathy

    The breakfast club and Don't You (forget About Me) <3 [7]

    December 2011

  • android1985

    first 5 albums 4life!

    December 2011
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