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Simple Minds have announced a new live album, ahead of their huge UK and Ireland tour this summer. Find all the details below.The Scottish band are due to release ‘Live In The City Of Diamonds’ on April 24 (pre-order/pre-save here). It captures a career-spanning sold-out concert at the Ziggo Dome arena in Amsterdam on April 6, 2024.Fans will be able to own the collection in the following physical formats:2 x CD Media Book: features 24 tracks and a 24-page book including exclusive photos and tour notes written by Jim Kerr.Double black vinyl: 18-tracks, housed in gatefold sleeve with hi-spec finish.Specialist Retail Exclusive Vinyl: Double clear / glitter vinyl housed in gatefold sleeve with hi-spec finish. The new album Live in The City of Diamonds, out April 25th 2025.

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How Simple Minds turned ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ into the ‘Breakfast Club’ anthem 40 years ago

Simple Minds first heard “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” — their No. 1 single that would serve as the theme song and teenage anthem of the 1985 Brat Pack classic “The Breakfast Club” — it wasn’t exactly memorable to them.“It sounded a little generic to us,” Jim Kerr, lead singer of the band, told The Post.

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Simple Minds announce 2025 tour with Soft Cell. Get tickets today

Simple Minds announced they’re striking out on a huge North American tour in honor of the 40th anniversary of their seminal album “Once Upon A Time” that spawned the hits “Alive and Kicking” “All The Things She Said” and “Sanctify Yourself” along with “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” which has been retroactively added to a remastered bonus disc.This nationwide trek, the group’s first proper U.S. run since 2018, includes stops at Holmdel, NJ’s PNC Bank Arts Center on Wednesday, June 11 and Long Island’s Jones Beach Theater on Friday, June 13.They won’t be going it alone either.The Scottish synth-pop icons will be joined by ’80s legends Soft Cell and Modern English at all shows.“Hindsight is a glorious thing!” frontman Jim Kerr said.

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Simple Minds star's dad put drunk Bob Dylan to bed so he could play Live Aid

Simple Minds star Jim Kerr has told how his late dad Jimmy helped put a drunk Bob Dylan to bed hours before the song legend was due to play Live Aid.

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Liam Gallagher and John Squire look back on writing The Seahorses’ ‘Love Me And Leave Me’: “We were obviously battered”

Liam Gallagher and John Squire have looked back at their first time working together, when they co-wrote The Seahorses’ song ‘Love Me And Leave Me’.The topic arose during a recent interview with NME, where the former Oasis frontman and ex-Stone Roses guitarist opened up about the response to their collaborative self-titled album and UK and European shows.In the discussion, the duo were asked about how they collaborated once before – during the first phase of Gallagher’s rock’n’roll career and in the second stage of Squire’s.Taking place back in 1997, both of them took songwriting credit for the song ‘Love Me And Leave Me’, which was shared by Squire as part of his short-lived post-Roses band The Seahorses, and released as part of their first and only album ‘Do It Yourself’.“I don’t even remember doing it,” Liam said when asked about the song, which sparked hopes of a future collaboration between them both. “I just remember John being round our house just fucking about.

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Britney Spears' hit single Hit Me Baby One More Time celebrates its 25th anniversary

It's been 25 years since Britney Spears pulled on a school uniform and danced her way along a school corridor to music video history.

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Ezra Knight Reelected President Of SAG-AFTRA’s New York Local In Clean Sweep For Ruling USAN Party

Ezra Knight has been reelected president of SAG-AFTRA’s New York Local in a landslide victory that also gave his running mates a clean sweep of the election. Knight received nearly 73% of the votes cast in a four-person race for president. His four vice presidential running mates – Linda Powell, Anthony Rapp, Jim Kerr and Liz Zazzi – were also elected.

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Simple Minds announce 2024 UK and Ireland tour

Simple Minds have shared details of a UK and Ireland tour next spring.The Scottish band have announced the new leg of their ‘Global Tour 2024′ following the recent news of dates in Australia and New Zealand next year.It follows last year’s ’40 Years Of Hits Tour’ and will be their biggest overall tour since 1985.Tickets for the UK and Ireland shows go on general sale from 9am BST this Friday (September 8) here.The UK and Ireland leg of Simple Minds’ tour kicks off at Leeds’ First Direct Arena on March March. It’s followed by eight more UK shows (minus an Ireland show at Dublin’s 3Arena), culminating in a hometown concert at Glasgow’s The OVO Hydro on March 29.Singer Jim Kerr said: “Concerts are the life blood of Simple Minds, it’s where we and our audience come alive and energised through music.

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EastEnders' Patsy Kensit, 54, flaunts incredible figure in bikini after fifth engagement

EastEnders actress Patsy Kensit proved she’s still got it at 54 as she flaunted her incredible bikini body after announcing her fifth engagement.The actress posed for a selfie in a bright pink bandeau bikini on her Instagram, where she boasts more than 130,000 followers. Patsy has been enjoying a sunny getaway and simply captioned the snap, “off snorkeling.” Her fans were in awe of her slim figure, with one fan commenting that she’s “never looked better” while another said, “very beautiful Patsy.

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Scots music stars sing praises of Barrowlands in BBC documentary airing New Year's Day

Scots music acts including Amy MacDonald, The Fratellis, Mogwai and Franz Ferdinand are set to star in a new BBC documentary celebrating the heritage of Glasgow's beloved Barrowland Ballroom.

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Patsy Kensit's multi-millionaire fiancé was 'still dating ex a day before he proposed'

Patsy Kensit’s hubby-to-be was still dating his ex-partner up until the day before he popped the question, the other woman has claimed. Just hours before asking the ex-Emmerdale star to marry him, property tycoon Patric Cassidy was still with 39-year old Julia Simons.

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Patsy Kensit 'to marry for fifth time' after whirlwind five month romance

Former Emmerdale star Patsy Kensit is to tie the knot for the fifth time after a secret engagement to her boyfriend of only five weeks. The actress, 54, will marry multimillionaire property tycoon Patric Cassidy after saying "yes" on Tuesday. The loved-up pair were introduced through mutual friends and a friend told The Sun: “This has been a whirlwind romance.

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Patsy Kensit's four ex-husbands explained as she gets engaged for a fifth time

Patsy Kensit is set to walk down the aisle for the fifth time after secretly getting engaged to her boyfriend, property tycoon Patric Cassidy. The former Emmerdale star, 54, met her new beau through mutual friends and following a whirlwind five-week romance, he romantically popped the question earlier this week. A friend of Patsy's told The Sun: “This has been a whirlwind romance.

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Emmerdale's Patsy Kensit 'engaged to boyfriend of five weeks'

Emmerdale legend Patsy Kensit is reportedly set to tie the knot with her boyfriend of five weeks. The actress, who is perhaps best known to audiences for portraying Sadie King in the ITV soap, is said to have accepted property tycoon Patrick Cassidy’s proposal, after he popped the question earlier this week. ‘Both Patsy and Patrick are smitten, and it just feels very right,’ a source told The Sun.

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Patsy Kensit thanks her two sons for supporting her through horrific menopause

Patsy Kensit has thanked her two sons for helping her get through her horrific menopause. The 54-year-old actress entered the cycle aged 45 after she underwent an emergency hysterectomy and woke up in hospital with severe brain fog that left her unable to recall simple conversations and remember why she was in a shop. She said on ITV’s Loose Women on Tuesday (23.

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Watch Simple Minds’ perform in ancient Sicily venue in new video for single ‘Vision Thing’

Simple Minds have shared a new video for their recent single ‘Vision Thing’.The clip, which you can view below, is interspersed with live pictures of the band recently performing at the Ancient Theatre Taormina in Sicily.It is the first track to be lifted from their forthcoming eighteenth studio album ‘Direction Of The Heart’.The song is described as a tribute to frontman Jim Kerr’s “best pal” – his late father who passed away in 2019.It is ‘Direction Of The Heart”s opener and is followed by eight new tracks, which were all recorded at Hamburg’s Chameleon Studios. ‘Human Traffic’ features a guest appearance from Sparks’ frontman Russell Mael, and elsewhere the album includes a cover of The Call’s 1983 single ‘The Walls Came Down’.‘Direction Of The Heart’ is the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Walk Between Worlds’ and is out on October 21.

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Simple Minds sell “key music interests” to BMG

Simple Minds have sold their “key music interests” to major label BMG.The agreement was made between the label and the band’s core members Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill, giving BMG the publishing rights to over 240 songs.“We are very pleased to have struck this deal,” Kerr said in a statement obtained by Music News. “It feels like the right time for us and our families.

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DEALSBMG has acquired Simple Minds’ song rights catalogue, plus the band’s remuneration and royalty rights in relation to their entire recorded music output. This follows the news that BMG will release the band’s new album, ‘Direction Of The Heart’, on 21 Oct. “We are very pleased to have struck this deal”, says frontman Jim Kerr.

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Simple Minds announce new album ‘Direction Of The Heart’ and share single ‘Vision Thing’

Simple Minds have shared new single ‘Vision Thing’, which is the first to be taken from the band’s upcoming eighteenth studio album ‘Direction Of The Heart’.The euphoric ‘Vision Thing’ features music written by guitarist Charlie Burchill and lyrics by frontman Jim Kerr, with the song described as a tribute to Kerr’s “best pal” – his late father who passed away in 2019.The new single is ‘Direction Of The Heart”s opener and is followed by eight new tracks, which were all recorded at Hamburg’s Chameleon Studios. ‘Human Traffic’ features a guest appearance from Sparks’ frontman Russell Mael, and elsewhere the album includes a cover of The Call’s 1983 single ‘The Walls Came Down’.‘Direction Of The Heart’ is the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Walk Between Worlds’ and is out on October 21.

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Hall & Oates’ Daryl Hall confirms he was once asked to sing for Van Halen

Daryl Hall – one half of 80s pop duo Hall & Oates – has confirmed a long-standing rumour that he was once asked to replace David Lee Roth as frontman of Van Halen.The singer was being interviewed on New York radio station Q104.3 to promote an upcoming solo tour with Todd Rundgren and a new archival album entitled ‘BeforeAfter’. Jim Kerr, a DJ at the station, claimed that he came across the rumour while doing research online for his interview with Hall, before asking the singer if it was true.Hall laughed at the question, before clarifying the situation between himself and Van Halen. “I knew those guys really well,” he said.

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