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It’s alive!!!

Simple Minds – Alive And Kicking

… and kicking! He’s fine! He’s an album that was coming out in October 1985. Born in Scotland to a group of five musicians and a very good backing singer, and as the first sound, exactly these days, he has a beautiful song that will go down in history.

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We don’t forget about you!

Simple Minds – Don’t you (forget about me)

The story of “Don’t you (forget about me)” reminds us once again that when fate is targeting you, you cannot stand against success. Simple Minds were certainly a known group and already had many albums behind them, including for example “New gold dream”

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Everybody’s land

Simple Minds – This is your land

Simple Minds released “This is your land” about in mid-April 1989. This was the second hit out of the great album “Street fighting years”, after the leading track “Belfast child“. From the very title, the song is an anthem to the planet care,

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Years of change

Simple Minds – Belfast Child

“Belfast child” marked the return, between January and February 1989, of the great Simple Minds on international scene. More than three years had passed since their last studio album, “Once upon a time”. This song was a sort of bridge to the new album “Street fighting years”,

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Ghosts in November

Simple Minds – Ghost dancing

Ghost dancing, but the witches are nowadays definitely off. But in 1986, it was not common to celebrate Halloween outside the USA, but in November it was full of ghosts. Dancing. On very beautiful songs!!

Simple Minds released “Ghost dancing”

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A repeating video

Simple Minds – All the things she said

“All the things she said” might probably seem some sort of self-repeating video, today. I mean from a graphic perspective, but this was science fiction in the 80s! Simple Minds really looked like being always far beyond. But how many of them are in this video?

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Somehow mystic

Simple Minds – Sanctify yourself

“Sanctify yourself” represents, in my opinion, a sort of manifest of what Simple Minds were between 1985 and 1986. Probably not their purest period, but definitely their most successful period in terms of sales. Looking at the tile, maybe Jim Kerr did not really respect the commandments,

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