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How The Breakfast Club ruined Simple Minds – and made them
John Hughes' 80s teen movies were the kiss of death for every band they featured
How Simple Minds went from punk to stadium rock, via an 80s Brat Pack classic
The epic story of Simple Minds, the Scottish rock band who conquered the world
Simple Minds on the night that David Bowie and Iggy Pop gatecrashed their studio
The pair roped in the Scottish rockers for some football-style chanting when they found themselves working in the studio next door
How Simple Minds made the album that sent them soaring
As the 80s dawned, Simple Minds were in crisis. But, believing that life was without limits, they recorded the album New Gold Dream and the dream became reality
“Our music teacher would belt us if we didn’t know all the musical signs and notes. She used to play Mussorgsky… so I love ELP’s version of Pictures At An Exhibition”: Simple Minds’ Derek Forbes names his prog heroes
Bassist explains new wave outfit were massive Genesis fans when they started out – and he used to sing the whole of Foxtrot while working as a painter and decorator
"Hardcore fans always talk to us about the first five albums, the cooler, blurrier, druggy art school ones that no-one bought": why Simple Minds tired of cult status and went for broke
There's a new Simple Minds documentary coming, and it helps explain where things went right and wrong for the Glasgow band
Simple Minds's Direction Of The Heart: elder statesmen with nothing left to prove
Veteran Scot-rock stadium flouncers Simple Minds continue their autumnal purple patch with Direction Of The Heart
Simple Minds: "Genesis appealed to me: they were inventing their own world.”
For many, they’re forever tied to the shallow sheen of 80s arena rock and The Breakfast Club, but Simple Minds had an inventive side waiting to be discovered.
