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Music video. "Don't You (Forget About Me)" on YouTube. " Don't You (Forget About Me) " is a song by the Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released as a single in 1985. It was written and composed by the producer Keith Forsey and the guitarist Steve Schiff, for the 1985 film The Breakfast Club. Simple Minds initially declined to record it ...
The 1985 film The Breakfast Club broke Simple Minds into the US market, when the band achieved their only No. 1 U.S. pop hit in April 1985 with the film's opening track, "Don't You (Forget About Me)", [11] a song written by Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff; [11] which had previously been offered to Billy Idol and Bryan Ferry before Simple Minds ...
Ace of Base's album The Sign had three songs in the top ten: "The Sign", "All That She Wants", and "Don't Turn Around". The last time an album had such a strong showing was in 1978, when Bee Gees recordings from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack were in positions 2, 4, and 6. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1994 ...
Just For One Day. Just For One Day is a jukebox musical with a book by John O'Farrell. Told through a modern-day perspective, Just For One Day retells the events leading up to Live Aid, the 1985 benefit concert organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise awareness and funds for the famine in Ethiopia. While the primary events leading to the ...
Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984.
Thirty-five artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 1985. A-ha, Billy Idol, Bruce Springsteen, Simple Minds and Whitney Houston were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1985. The 1984 Christmas number-one, charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by the collective Band Aid, remained at ...
A one-hit wonder is a musical artist who is successful with one hit song, but without a comparable subsequent hit. [1] The term may also be applied to an artist who is remembered for only one hit despite other successes (such as "Take On Me" by a-ha in the United States, [2] [3] [4] which topped a Rolling Stone magazine poll to find the top one-hit wonder).
If anything about Mariah Carey's “All I Want for Christmas is You” annoys you, best to avoid shopping malls now. The Christmas colossus has reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart the past ...