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"Don't You (Forget About Me)" was played during the opening and closing credits of The Breakfast Club (1985). [16] It was included on the film's soundtrack. [17] [18] "Don't You (Forget About Me)" was released as a single in February 1985 in the United States and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 [19] in May 1985. [20]
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 ...
"Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1]"Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War.
"Ghost Dancing" is a song written by Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill and Mick MacNeil and recorded by Scottish rock band Simple Minds. [2] It was released as the fourth single from the band's 1985 album Once Upon a Time. [3]
To "Die with your boots on" is an idiom referring to dying while fighting or to die while actively occupied/employed/working or in the middle of some action.A person who dies with their boots on keeps working to the end, as in "He'll never quit—he'll die with his boots on."
She sternly admonished him, "Be good. Don't get into trouble. Don't eat all the chocolate. Don't spill all the milk. Don't throw stones at the cow. Don't fall down the well." The boy had done all of these things on previous market days. Hoping to head off new trouble, she added, "And don't stuff beans up your nose!"
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
The Library. The Third Librarian was neatly dressed in a black velvet doublet and fine hose, as befitted his rank.He introduced himself as Virgil, "like the Roman poet".He chose not to wear the rapier of his office, but wore a paper-knife in a narrow holster on his belt, to slit the pages of uncut books at need.