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.

Simple decoys made of green cardboard also disrupted appropriate landings just as well as did the live ground cover.

He did not claim the crown of West Francia when his brother died in 898 ; but recognising the supremacy of the Carolingian king, Charles the Simple, he was confirmed in his offices and possessions, after which he continued to defend northern Francia from the attacks of the Norsemen.

Hayward's " Voices in the Sky " charted as a single in the UK ( No. 27 ), as did Lodge's " Ride My See-Saw " ( No. 42, No. 15 in France ) – still their concert finale number today – which featured Pinder's non-album song " A Simple Game " as ' B ' side.

The next man called Frederick to occupy the Sicilian throne was dubbed by later generations of historians as Frederick III: Frederick III the Simple, though he himself did not use an ordinal.

The group's next album, Return of Saturn ( 2000 ), despite the Top 40 hit single " Simple Kind of Life ", was a minor success commercially and did not match the success of their previous but received critical praise and was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 43rd Grammy Awards.

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.

" We didn't want to use the stage as a platform for ego, like the big bands of the time did, like U2 and Simple Minds.

Simple as it was, it did stand out however among other BASICs of the time by offering a timer-based software interrupt mechanism using the EVERY or AFTER commands ; this offered a timed repeating or once-off call respectively to the BASIC line number of your choice.

A. N. Wilson began to write a column under the title Peter Simple II in The Sunday Telegraph on 26 February 2006, but it did not last long.

In the end, she did accept and sang the folk song " Simple Gifts ".

Shows that were not for children, such as 8 Simple Rules did air on Disney Channel in the UK prior to being on ABC1 in edited versions for children's viewing, but when airing on ABC1, they were shown fully uncut.

Simple things all towns received, they did not.

Simple CW pulses did not appear to have any effect.

Keep It Simple was recorded in Sickmen's apartment in Charlottesville's Linen Building, also by Cole who did the sound engineering on both recordings.

Grant's first secular album ( while containing Christian themes ) since 1997's Behind the Eyes, Simple Things did not see the mainstream success similar to Grant's albums from the 1990s.

It was written by Austin basing the song on No Doubt's " Simple Kind of Life ", but he did not finish it.

" Raymond Chandler, whose essay ' The Simple Art of Murder ' did much toward demolishing the classical detective story, had this to say in a letter to Hamish Hamilton, the British publisher: ' This man Austin Freeman is a wonderful performer.