Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How could we forget about them? This week in 1985, Scotland’s Simple Minds landed an indelible number-one on the wing of a smash ...

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 ...

When I am introduced to Charlie Burchill, Simple Minds’ guitarist, the first thing he asks me is, “Where are you from?” It’s a complicated question for me to answer, but it doesn’t surprise me that he ...

Simple Minds was riding high on the success of "Don't You (Forget About Me)" when the band performed at Live Aid in July 1985. John Atashian/Getty Images Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, ...