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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHappy b'day Jim Kerr, whose band Simple Minds famously resisted recording "Don't You (Forget About Me)".
It sounded a little generic .. We were working on our own stuff .. But by end of the session, we were all looking around thinking, I dont know what we have here, but it sounds pretty good.
Happy bâday Jim Kerr, whose band Simple Minds famously resisted recording âDonât You (Forget About Me)â.
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2025-07-10T01:17:12.122Z
âIt sounded a little generic .. We were working on our own stuff .. But by end of the session, we were all looking around thinking, âI donât know what we have here, but it sounds pretty good.ââ
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it did sound pretty good


Marie Marie
(10,320 posts)True Dough
(23,651 posts)and I also think this is a terrific tune:
ProfessorGAC
(73,557 posts)For probably 10 years, it was somewhere on the setlist.
We had different harmonies than the record, though.
Kerr was married to Chrissie Hynde at the time and she was instrumental in convincing him to record someone else's song.