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Pages in category "Simple Minds members" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Charlie Burchill; E.
Ditching the stage names and the overt punkiness, the remaining members continued together as Simple Minds (naming themselves after a David Bowie lyric from his song "Jean Genie", [6] making their very first performance at Glasgow's Satellite City on 17 January 1978. [13]
James Kerr (born 9 July 1959) is a Scottish musician and lead singer of the rock band Simple Minds.Commercially successful singles released by Simple Minds include "Don't You (Forget About Me)", "Glittering Prize" (1982), "Someone Somewhere in Summertime" (1982), "Waterfront" (1983) and "Alive and Kicking" (1985), as well as the UK number one single "Belfast Child" (1989).
During Simple Minds' early-to-mid-1980s period, Burchill's guitar had a distinctive and atmospheric sound not dissimilar to Echo & the Bunnymen's Will Sergeant. [citation needed] Making heavy use of effects such as delay and chorus, his playing often provided subtle textures behind the band's more drum- and bass-propelled songs.
Robin Clark is an American vocalist known for her work as a vocalist on David Bowie's 1975 album Young Americans and Simple Minds' 1985 album Once Upon a Time. Clark was born in New York. In 1967, when Clark was 17, she and future singer and songwriter Luther Vandross worked together after school in the stockroom at Alexander's department store ...
Derek Forbes (born 22 June 1956) is a Scottish bassist, vocalist, and occasional guitarist. He is mostly associated with the Scottish band Simple Minds, having joined in time to record their early demos in 1978 and stayed with the band during their rise to mainstream success and their first six albums, until leaving shortly after their 1985 hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)" (subsequently ...
But of course, no Simple Minds stock-taking, 45 years into their career, would be complete without a look back at their biggest hit, the Breakfast Club theme and 1985 U.S. No.1 smash “Don't You ...
Simple Minds [32] Slam; Slik; David Sneddon; Jimmy Somerville, singer [33] Sons and Daughters [34] SOPHIE; Spirea X; Sharleen Spiteri – singer, songwriter and guitarist; Sparrow and the Workshop; Sputniks Down; Stapleton; Al Stewart; Stone the Crows; Strawberry Switchblade; Hamish Stuart of The Average White Band; The Supernaturals [35] Swanee