The music Simple Minds made in The Breakfast Club era was just the same. People who claim, their Breakfast Club era music wasn’t as good. I personally think their music has been highly influential. They deserved recognition way before that. And Simple Minds become much more well known.
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Unlike any the general music around at the time.Īnd then their music on The Breakfast Club movie came out. I was also totally hooked on their real early 80’s song, Love Song. If you grew up in the 80’s and had access to Simple Minds music, and loved it, you would know. When they talk about 1980’s music, Simple Minds are right up there. Melinda from AustraliaNever was there a song that defined the mid 1980’s the most.Esskayess from EarthThe "freeze-frame shot" of Rocky and Apollo is at the end of Rocky III, not Rocky II.I also thought this was called "Don't Forget About Me." Oops! I originally thought this was about not forgetting about someone, seeing as a kid who went to my school that is 4 grades ahead of me covered this at the end of the school year for the oldest students (Well, the middle and high school kids are mixed together at my school). Bridget from CoSo this was written about being there for someone.Your Comment send your comment Comments: 40 While there, he convinced them to give it a go, and they recorded the track in a few hours at a studio in London. Forsey visited them in Scotland, and they got on well. They met with The Breakfast Club director John Hughes and got a screening of the film, which put the lyric in better context. So why did the band record it? They simply changed their minds. An A&R guy at the label named Jordan Harris tried to rectify that by having them record this song ( The Breakfast Club soundtrack was on A&M), but the band wanted nothing to with it because:ġ) They didn't like recording songs they didn't write.Ģ) Jim Kerr didn't like the lyric (especially the "vanity. Forsey was also a big fan of simple minds, so he tried to get them to record the song by delivering a cassette demo to the band.Īt the time, Simple Minds was gaining traction in the UK, with with three modest hits from their 1984 album Sparkle in the Rain: " Waterfront," " Speed Your Love To Me" and "Up on the Catwalk." In the US, however, they had no luck, in large part because their US record company, A&M, didn't promote them. According to Keith Forsey, Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music was his first choice to record this song, but Ferry turned it down.