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 ...

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simple Minds' two-hour setlist on Friday at Acrisure Arena, celebrating the 40th anniversary of its album "Once Upon a Time" and ...

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 ...

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PHOENIX – If you love ‘80s new wave anthems, don’t you forget about getting tickets to see Simple Minds in Phoenix this spring. The Scottish rock band is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the smash ...

Simple Minds kicked off their Alive & Kicking North American tour on Friday at the Cascades Amphitheater in Ridgefield, Washington, with help from fellow '80s new wavers Modern English and Soft Cell.

Simple Minds is coming to play Ball Arena on Tuesday, May 27 – a show that won’t be threatened by Nuggets playoff basketball. (Sorry, Katy Perry.) As part of the ...

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 ...

Simple Minds have announced the Alive & Kicking Tour, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of their breakthrough album Once Upon a Time and hits cities in the US and Canada this spring. Joining them ...

Simple Minds: Everything is Possible tells the inspirational story of how a group of working class kids growing up in post-industrial Glasgow dared to dream. Those kids became Simple Minds, one of the ...