Simple Minds is heading out on their biggest tour in nearly four decades, and you don’t want to miss it. The Scottish band will tour all May and June, and they are making sure to stop in Holmdel at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simple Minds performs at Forum of Assago on April 20, 2024 in Milan, Italy. (Credit: Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images) When ...

“Don’t You (Forget About Me)” was built to be an anthem. Or maybe it was rebuilt to be an anthem. In 1984, songwriter Keith Forsey and director John Hughes pitched Simple Minds on recording Forsey’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the Scottish band Simple Minds made their live debut on stage at the Satellite City club in the city center of Glasgow on January 17, 1978, it’s fair to wonder just how big the four teenagers in ...

As one of the founding members of Simple Minds way back in 1977, guitarist Charlie Burchill seems to be working as hard as ever with no sign of the band slowing down. Despite residing in Italy for ...

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 ...