Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)" topped the charts after it was released on "The Breakfast Club" soundtrack in 1985.

"Don't You (Forget About Me)" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in May of 1985. With a U.S. hit finally in hand, the band needed an encore. By Glenn Peoples It was 1985 and Simple Minds were in ...

The often-told story about Simple Minds’ 1985 smash hit “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” from the film The Breakfast Club, is that the Scottish rock band was initially reluctant to record it. The song ...

There was a common trajectory for the great new wave artists of the ’80s. With many of them having come out of punk in the ’70s, their beginnings were often more avant-garde than they might be given ...

Simple Minds' seventh album, the worldwide multiplatinum hit Once Upon a Time, will celebrate its 40th anniversary later this year with an expanded five-CD Deluxe Edition. The 1985 LP arrived just ...

All things considered, Once Upon A Time did all right for Simple Minds. Released in 1985, it topped the UK album charts, produced a string of hit singles and helped establish them in the US. Once Upon ...

For most Americans, the Scottish rock group Simple Minds will always be synonymous with their number one hit from 1985, “Don't You (Forget About Me),” from the John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club.

When Simple Minds hit the stage at Wembley Arena tonight - finally kicking off their Covid delayed 40 Years Of Hits tour - one song is guaranteed to raise the roof. Even those who know little about ...

On Thursday night, Scotland’s Simple Minds — which was born the same year as Sarah Michelle Gellar, James Van Der Beek and Jon “Napoleon Dynamite” Heder (1977) — wrap up its first U.S. tour in over a ...

Ever wonder why teen movies nowadays just don't strike the same chord as such '80s-era classics as "Last American Virgin" and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High?" By Billboard Staff Ever wonder why teen ...