Simple Minds are a rock band from Scotland, who had their 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.
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 Eddie Duffy on bass guitar.
Don’t You (Forget About Me)
“Don’t You (Forget About Me)” is a song written for the soundtrack to the film The Breakfast Club and performed by the band Simple Minds in 1985. The songwriters were producer Keith Forsey (who won an Oscar for “Flashdance… What a Feeling”) and Steve Schiff (guitarist and songwriter from the Nina Hagen band).
Forsey asked both Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol to record the song, but both declined; Idol would later perform a cover of it on his 2001 greatest hits compilation. Schiff then suggested Forsey ask the Scottish New Wave band Simple Minds, who initially refused as well, but then agreed under the encouragement of their label, A&M. According to one account, the band “rearranged and recorded ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ in three hours in a north London studio and promptly forgot about it.”
http://djallyn.org/media/simple-minds-dont-you-forget-about-me.flvHey, hey, hey ,hey
Ohhh…Won’t you come see about me?
I’ll be alone, dancing you know it babyTell me your troubles and doubts
Giving me everything inside and out and
Love’s strange so real in the dark
Think of the tender things that we were working onSlow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, babyDon’t You Forget About Me
Don’t Don’t Don’t Don’t
Don’t You Forget About MeWill you stand above me?
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, downWill you recognise me?
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down, downHey, hey, hey, hey
Ohhhh…..Don’t you try to pretend
It’s my feeling we’ll win in the end
I won’t harm you or touch your defenses
Vanity and securityDon’t you forget about me
I’ll be alone, dancing you know it baby
Going to take you apart
I’ll put us back together at heart, babyDon’t You Forget About Me
Don’t Don’t Don’t Don’t
Don’t You Forget About MeAs you walk on by
Will you call my name?
As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
When you walk awayOr will you walk away?
Will you walk on by?
Come on – call my name
Will you call my name?
- Audio from the 1985 Soundtrack Album, The Breakfast Club:
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