“Don’t You (Forget About Me)”, It is the best known undisputed issue of Simple Mindsthe Scottish band (Proud of Glasgow) that he was born with the punk pumps and grew up to the gangs like U2. Last Thursday, May 1, they gave a concert in the Movistar Arena and filled the place of their followers mostly +40 (We thanked the field with seats).
His hit theme that translates “Do not forget me”, sounded in the second part of the show and was as if it were A religious anthem, which extended for a long time more than the song lasts taking advantage of the tarage of the exultant public with the situation. An anecdotal data is that the song was created for the movie’s soundtrack THE CINTE CLUB y It was rejected by several artists until simple Minds said yes, without too much enthusiasm.
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The authors of the theme, Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff thought of other artists such as Bryan Ferry or Billy Idol to record the song, but denied. It was Jim Kerr’s group who performed it. “When we started playing it we realized that it was good. Something important was happening. The people who worked in the study came and told me it was great. So the answer is that we did not know that it would become one of those songs of a generation, maybe even two or three generations. But there was something in space. Yes. There was something, there was an alchemy, there was a bit of magic, ”the frontman acknowledged Carlos Iagna Prat, in an interview for “La Viola”in March this year.
After so many years of races the band was modifying their sound, but those echoes of their generation are still present.
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In the recital at the Movistar Arena there were no other classics from his repertoire as “Alive and Kicking”, “She’s a River”, “Hypnotised”, “Once Upon a Time”, “All the Things She Said”, “Sanctify Yourself”, among others.
Kerr as the historic guitarist Charlie Burchill stood on stage with all her career, but the band with her new incorporations achieved a true symbiosis. The drummer Cherisse Osei and the voice of Sarah Brownthere were two imposing presences in the concert.
The two friends who have met since they were 8 years old are 65, and who put together a band Taking the name of “Jean Genie” by Bowie, They still maintain the connection of their first years.
The fabulous Cadillacs announced a world tour for their 40 years and confirmed their show in Buenos Aires
Its worldwide success includes more than 60 million albums sold and three albums that reached number one in the United Kingdom: Sparkle in the Rain, Once Upon A Time and Street Fighting Years. To them are added their live album Live in the City of Light and the Glittering Prize compilation that also led the lists.
Complete list of topics
- Waterfront
- Signal and the noise
- Speed your love
- Big sleep
- Hypnotised
- This fear of gods
- She’s a river
- See the lights
- Once upon a time
- Wish you were here
- All the things she said
- Don’t you (forget about me)
- Someone Somwhere
- Sanctify Yourself
- Dolphins
- Alive and kicking
- Ghostdancing
