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Simple Minds at the Saenger Theatre on Tuesday Photo: Dean Chalkley

Simple Minds talks back

October 24, 2018 by: John Wirt

Scotland’s Simple Minds are famous in America for their number one hit, 1985’s “Don’t You (Forget About Me).” But that song, featured in the John Hughes film The Breakfast Club, is a small piece of Simple Minds. Six of the band’s albums, for instance, reached number one in the United Kingdom. Simple Minds albums also topped charts across t...

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