Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)

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 has sold more than 40 million albums since 1979. Between 1979 and 1989, composers were Kerr, Burchill and MacNeil. Since 1990, composers are mainly Kerr and Burchill.

Founding members were Jim Kerr (composer, vocals) and Charlie Burchill (composer, guitars, violin, sax, keyboards since 1990), along with Mel Gaynor (drummer since 1982), are the core of the band, which currently features Andy Gillespie on keyboards and Ged Grimes on bass guitar since founding members Michael MacNeil and Derek Forbes left the band.

"Don't You (Forget About Me)" is a song from the soundtrack to the film The Breakfast Club in 1985. The songwriters were producer Keith Forsey (who won an Oscar for "Flashdance... What a Feeling") and Steve Schiff (guitarist and songwriter from the Nina Hagen band).

Forsey asked The Fixx, Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol to record the song, but all three declined. Schiff then suggested Forsey ask the Scottish New Wave band Simple Minds, who initially refused as well, but then agreed under the encouragement of their label, A&M. According to one account, the band "rearranged and recorded 'Don’t You (Forget About Me)' in three hours in a north London studio and promptly forgot about it."

The track would become their most famous song and is considered a defining song of the 1980s. Continuing the rock direction recently taken on Sparkle in the Rain but also glancing back at their melodic synthpop past, it caught the band at their commercial peak and, propelled by the success of The Breakfast Club, became a number-one hit in the U.S. and around the world. It is the band's only number-one hit on the U.S. Top Rock Tracks chart, staying atop for three weeks. While only reaching number seven in the UK, it stayed on the charts from 1985–1987, one of the longest time spans for any single in the history of the chart.

Despite its success, the band continued to dismiss the song, the most obvious slight being its absence from their subsequent album Once Upon a Time. It finally appeared on the 1992 best-of Glittering Prize 81/92.

John Leland from Spin magazine wrote that "Don't You (Forget About Me), a romantic and melancholy dance track, therefore cuts ice both in the living room and on the dance floor".

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