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orleans

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Wed Jul 9, 2025, 10:04 PM Wednesday

Happy 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 don’t know what we have here, but it sounds pretty good.’”


Happy 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 don’t know what we have here, but it sounds pretty good.’”

Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2025-07-10T01:17:12.122Z


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it did sound pretty good
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Happy b'day Jim Kerr, whose band Simple Minds famously resisted recording "Don't You (Forget About Me)". (Original Post) orleans Wednesday OP
I love that song. Also a great ending to the movie The Breakfast Club. Marie Marie Wednesday #1
I love Don't You (Forget About Me) True Dough Wednesday #2
Covered That Song ProfessorGAC Thursday #3

ProfessorGAC

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3. Covered That Song
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 05:28 PM
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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.

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