When the Scottish band Simple Minds made their live debut at the Satellite City club in Glasgow on January 17, 1978, it is fair to wonder just how big the four teenagers in the band dared to dream.

George Birge, Avery Anna, Drake Milligan and DJ Rock will be on the bill as well ... embraced that song," says Simple Minds lead singer Jim Kerr. "Although it conjures up the spirit of its ...

Jim Kerr is on a Zoom call from Los Angeles a few ... And, you know, the usual radio promotion that you need. You mentioned Live Aid, which was that same year. Could you talk about that experience?

Jim Kerr reveals the story behind "Don't You (Forget ... it took a long time to get any real promotion here outside of college radio. So we would find that maybe in one state, we were really ...

Ahead of a U.S. tour, and 40 years after the song hit No. 1, frontman Jim Kerr talks to THR about the ... hit in all around the world. Even now, radio stations will get in touch and say ...

“That’s a good question,” says singer Jim Kerr, who along with guitarist Charlie Burchill, are the only founding members of Simple Minds to have stayed in the band for the 47 years since ...

Friends and family on social media are remembering longtime Pittsburgh DJ and conservative radio host Jim Quinn, who died Sunday at the age of 82. According to our news partners at the Trib ...

It’s the song which defined a generation, but Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr originally said no to recording The Breakfast Club classic ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’. 40 years on since the ...

For almost a decade, from 1983 to 1992, he was part of the hit duo “Quinn and Banana” with DJ Don Jefferson. “I’m retired now, but Jim loved radio so much he never retired,” Jefferson ...

Later that year, Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, interviewed by Radio One DJ Kid Jensen, name-checked Strawberry Switchblade when asked what was happening back in Glasgow. The legendary Radio One DJ ...

Thomas Kerr, leader of the Conservative Group ... Last year also saw Scottish radio presenter and DJ Jim Gellatly back calls for a memorial - ahead of the 50th anniversary of the band.