Simple Minds - Promised You A Miracle 1982

Good quality video recorded live in the studio from Top Of The Pops 1982. Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band that achieved worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s and best known for their #1 worldwide hit single "Don't You (Forget About Me)", from the soundtrack of the John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club and No.3 worldwide hit single "Alive and Kicking". The band has sold more than 40 million albums since 1979.

Founding members Jim Kerr (vocals) and Charlie Burchill (guitar, keyboards), along with drummer Mel Gaynor, are the core of the band, which currently features Andy Gillespie on keyboards and Ged Grimes on bass guitar.

The roots of Simple Minds were in the punk band Johnny & The Self-Abusers, dreamed up by would-be Glasgow scenemaker Alan Cairnduff in 1977 - however he left the job of picking the band to his friend John Milarky. At Cairnduff's suggestion, Milarky teamed up with two musicians he'd never worked with before - budding singer and lyricist Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill. Kerr and Burchill, who had known each other since the age of eight, were longstanding allies. After joining Johnny & The Self-Abusers, they brought in two of their school friends, Brian McGee on drums and Tony Donald on bass (all four had previously played together in the schoolboy band Biba-Rom!). With Milarky established as singer, guitarist and saxophonist, the lineup was completed by Milarky's friend Alan McNeil as third guitarist. To expand the band's potential sound, Kerr and Burchill also doubled on keyboards and violin respectively. In common with the early punk bands, various members took on stage names - Milarky became "Johnnie Plague", Kerr became "Pripton Weird", McNeil chose "Sid Syphilis" and Burchill chose "Charlie Argue".

Johnny & The Self-Abusers played its first gig on Easter Monday, 1977 at the Dourne Castle pub in Glasgow. The band played support to rising punk stars Generation X in Edinburgh a scant two weeks later. The band went on to play a summer of concerts in Glasgow. Development was rapid, but at the expense of unity. The band soon split into two factions, with Milarky and McNeil on one side and Kerr, Donald, Burchill and McGee on the other: at the same time, Milarky's compositions were being edged out in favour of those of Kerr and Burchill. In November 1977, Johnny & The Self-Abusers released its only single, "Saints And Sinners", on Chiswick Records (which was labelled "rank and file" in a Melody Maker review.) The band split on the same day that the single was released, with Milarky and McNeil going on to form The Cuban Heels. Ditching the stage names and the overt punkiness, the remaining members continued together as Simple Minds (naming themselves after an David Bowie lyric from his song "Jean Genie").

2011-2012: Future plansIn early October 2010 Simple Minds completed four weeks in London's Sphere Recording studios during which four songs were recorded and mixed. The sessions (which featured the new band line-up of Burchill, Kerr, Gaynor, Gillespie and Grimes) were produced by Andy Wright and engineered & mixed by Gavin Goldberg. Songs recorded were an 8-minute long version of 'In Every Heaven' (originally recorded in 1982 during the "New Gold Dream" sessions) and three entirely new compositions - "Stagefright" and "On The Rooftop" (both written by Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr) and 'Broken Glass Park' (written by Jim Kerr and Owen Parker). According to Simple Minds' official web site, two of the tracks might feature in an extensive compilation to be released in early 2011. The two others might be the first tracks for what will eventually become the Simple Minds 16th studio album of original compositions due to be released in 2012].

On 29 November 2010, Simple Minds announced a 'Greatest Hits UK Forest Tour' in summer 2011, playing a series of seven dates from 10 June to 3 July 2011 in woodland locations of England as part of Forestry Commission Live Music[21].

Simple Minds will be playing a single night of the Night Of The Proms 2011 season on 2 April 2011 in Frederikshavn, Denmark.

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