Jim Kerr of Simple Minds was so moved by the results of the Enniskillen bombing in 1987 that he wrote new words to the traditional folk song " She Moved Through The Fair " and the group recorded it with the name " Belfast Child ".

* 1959 – Jim Kerr, Scottish singer-songwriter and keyboard player ( Simple Minds )

* The Philby affair is mentioned in the Simple Minds song " Up On The Catwalk " from their sixth studio album Sparkle in the Rain.

Producer Steve Lillywhite, who gleaned fame with successful productions of Simple Minds and U2, was enlisted to produce Grace Under Pressure.

Lee said " Steve Lillywhite is really not a man of his word .... after agreeing to do our record, he got an offer from Simple Minds, changed his mind, blew us off ,... so it put us in a horrible position.

Other artists who have claimed Roxy Music as an influence include Steve Jones and Paul Cook of The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cars, Grace Jones, Kate Bush, Adam Ant, The Human League, Japan, Duran Duran, Simple Minds, ABC, Spandau Ballet, The Fixx, Depeche Mode, Men Without Hats, Nile Rodgers, Annie Lennox, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon.

The band's highest-selling album Invisible Touch, features the artwork of Assorted Images, which had previously designed sleeves for Simple Minds, Duran Duran and Culture Club.

The Synchronicity Tour began in Chicago, Illinois in July 1983 at the original Comiskey Park, and ended in Melbourne, Australia in March 1984 at the Melbourne Showgrounds ( the final concert featured Simple Minds, Flock of Seagulls, The Fixx, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and The Police topping the bill ).

Peter Gabriel, Simple Minds ' Jim Kerr, and Hudson and former Band mate Robbie Robertson all guested the album which was released in 1986.

* Jim Kerr ( Simple Minds )

* Simple Minds – " Ghost Dancing ", " Don't You ( Forget About Me )", " Promised You A Miracle " ( JFK 19: 07 );

* Mick MacNeil ( b. 1958, Barra ) Simple Minds keyboardist 1978-1990.

International stars have included Laura Pausini, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Amália Rodrigues, Björk, Abdel Halim Hafez, Dave Matthews Band, Lara Fabian, Willy DeVille, Amália Rodrigues, Lou Reed, Josephine Baker, Annie Cordy, Majida El Roumi, Linda de Suza, The Animals, Petula Clark, Bülent Ersoy, Can, Ewa Demarczyk, Celine Dion, Cher, Deep Purple, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Krall, Dir En Grey, The Doors, Elis Regina, Eric Burdon, War, Fairuz, Dave Gahan, Jeff Buckley, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Kraftwerk, Nana Mouskouri, Haris Alexiou, Olivera Vuco, Mika, Wings, Paul McCartney, Oliver Dragojevic, Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Sarit Hadad, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, The Corrs, Lola Beltrán, Luciano Pavarotti, Mariza, Maysa, Liza Minnelli, Morrissey, The Shadows, My Bloody Valentine, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Phil Collins, Pet Shop Boys, Roger Hodgson, Primal Scream, Stevie Nicks, KISS, Sabah, Scorpions, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tereza Kesovija, The Beatles, The Cure, The Jackson 5, Barry Manilow, The Mars Volta, Stephen Stills, Yolandita Monge, Otis Redding, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Tin Machine, Mika, Björk, Umm Kulthum, Zohar Argov, Dionne Warwick, Violetta Villas, The Velvet Underground, Leon Redbone, Leonard Cohen, Manu Dibango, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Sid Vicious, James Brown, Alla Pugacheva, Lili Ivanova, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane and Arcade Fire, Zdravko Čolić & Tangerine Dream among many others.

# Simple Minds

** The Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde marries Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr.

The sound of the album was inspired by, among others, Jeff Beck, Badfinger, Simple Minds and McCarthy.

Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band who achieved worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

The roots of Simple Minds are in the short-lived punk band Johnny & The Self-Abusers, founded on the South Side of Glasgow in 1977.

Ditching the stage names and the overt punkiness, the remaining members continued together as Simple Minds ( naming themselves after a David Bowie lyric from his song " Jean Genie ").

In January 1978 Simple Minds recruited Duncan Barnwell as a second guitarist ( allowing for an optional two-guitar lineup while also enabling Burchill to play violin if he wanted to ).

Findlay also owned Zoom Records ( a subsidiary of the Arista Records label ), and used his position to get Simple Minds signed to Arista.

Tony Donald quit in April, before the first Simple Minds demo tape was recorded ( he would later become Burchill's guitar technician ).

The remaining quintet of Kerr, Burchill, MacNeil, Forbes and McGee — generally considered as the first serious lineup of Simple Minds — began rehearsing the set of Kerr / Burchill-written songs which would appear on their debut album.

The first Simple Minds album, Life in a Day, was produced by John Leckie and released by Arista in April 1979.

Possessing a similar AOR crossover potential to that of Simple Minds ' contemporaries The Cars, it also revealed influences by David Bowie, Genesis and Roxy Music.

Led by Rollo, some Vikings had settled in Normandy and were granted the land, first as counts and then as dukes, by King Charles the Simple, in order to protect the land from other raiders.

LDAPv3, first published in 1997, superseded LDAPv2 and added support for extensibility, integrated the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, and better aligned the protocol to the 1993 edition of X. 500.

When the final episode, " Things Aren't Simple Any More " originally aired on 20 November 2000 at 21: 00, it coincided with the broadcast of the first jackpot winner in the UK version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?, which had been filmed the Sunday before the broadcast.

* Time Flies ( album ) ( 1995 ) This Liquid Disc Records 2 CD Box set contains all of Vector ’ s first three albums: Mannequin Virtue, Please Stand By, and Simple Experience, plus five previously unavailable bonus tracks

Altus was the location for the first season of the television show The Simple Life, starring Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.

In the first season of the reality TV series The Simple Life, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie worked at the Sonic Drive-In located in Ozark.

Strange Times was also the first album since 1970 to include a new poem by Graeme Edge " Nothing Changes ", narrated by Edge himself, with Hayward then singing the concluding portion of the track, and notably concluded by quoting Mike Pinder's 1968 song title ' A Simple Game '.

The gritty That Most Important Thing: Love ( L ' important c ' est d ' aimer, 1974 ) garnered her first César Award ( France's equivalent of the Oscar ), a feat she repeated five years later, in her last collaboration with Sautet, for A Simple Story ( Une histoire simple, 1978 ).

The album's title track was released as Simple Minds ' first single and reached No. 62 in the UK Gallop charts, with the album itself putting in a more respectable performance at No. 30 in the LP charts.

Simple Minds ' first release on Virgin was actually two albums: the Steve Hillage-produced Sons and Fascination and Sister Feelings Call.

However, this period would also see the end of the first " classic " Simple Minds lineup when drummer Brian McGee left the band at the end of the Sons and Fascination sessions, citing exhaustion at Simple Minds ' constant touring schedule and a desire for more time at home with family.

McGee's initial replacement as Simple Minds ' drummer was Kenny Hyslop ( ex-Skids, Slik, Zones ), who joined the band in October 1981 in time to play the first leg of the Sons & Fascination tour.

Despite the band's new-found popularity in the UK and Europe, Simple Minds remained essentially unknown in the U. S. The band's UK releases on Arista were not picked up by Arista USA who had ' right of first refusal ' for their releases.

The first casualty of the band's collective change of attitude was bassist Derek Forbes, who had always been one of the strongest personalities within Simple Minds, and was now beginning to squabble with Kerr.

Simple Minds were the first band to be approached to play the Philadelphia leg of Live Aid.

Simple Minds was the first band to sign up for Mandela Day, a concert held at Wembley Stadium, London, UK, as an expression of solidarity with the then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela.

As a further nod to Simple Minds ' European musical heritage, the music video for " Glitterball ", the album's lead single, was the first production of any kind to film at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.

Although the album did not sell in great numbers in the U. S., Simple Minds felt confident enough to mount a North American leg of their Floating World Tour ( named after the instrumental track which closes Cry ), their first in seven years.

The original members of Simple Minds worked together for the first time in 27 years when they entered a recording studio in the middle of June 2008.

On Sunday, 31 May 2009, the album entered the UK Album chart at No. 10, becoming Simple Minds first album in 14 years to enter the UK Top 10.