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Simple Minds on 40 Years of ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ & Their Friendship, Despite the Occasional ‘Screaming Match’
Simple Minds on 40 years of "Don’t You (Forget About Me)", touring and new album.
Kerr assures us that familiarity has bred fondness; he even says the “parallel story” in the band’s 2023 documentary Everything Is Possible is “the friendship of Charlie and I, which is quite remarkable because usually in long-working relationships in music people hate each other after 20 years. Simple Minds was famously ambivalent about recording “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” which was written by producer Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff for the John Hughes-directed film. Simple Minds will follow the North American tour with a jaunt through Europe, starting June 27 at home in Glasgow, where the band plans to play Once Upon a Time in its entirety.
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