Consider 2025 a victory lap of sorts for Simple Minds. In 1985, the Scottish outfit played Live Aid in Philadelphia and released Once Upon a Time, the band’s seventh studio album and one that yielded ...

As a decade, overall, the ’80s kinda sucked. I remember; I was there. Its music, though, is sacrosanct. My generation is now vintage enough for tours featuring bands of our youth as they crisscross ...

When the Scottish band Simple Minds made their live debut on stage at the Satellite City club in the city center of Glasgow on January 17, 1978, it’s fair to wonder just how big the four teenagers in ...

The journey of Simple Minds started in the gritty punk clubs of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1977, continuing to small theaters and halls and then on to massive stadium-rock celebrations. Along the way, it ...

Simple Minds is most often categorized and marketed as an ’80s new wave group. Yet, that’s very misleading, since this multiplatinum-selling band is about as straightforward rock ‘n’ roll as it gets, ...