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 ciphers were replaced by polyalphabetic substitution ciphers which changed the substitution alphabet for every letter.

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.

Simple modification of Rydberg's and Bohr's formulas were found to give theoretical justification for Moseley's empirically-derived law for determining atomic numbers.

Version numbers 6 through 9 were proposed for various protocol models designed to replace IPv4: SIPP ( Simple Internet Protocol Plus, known now as IPv6 ), TP / IX ( RFC 1475 ), PIP ( RFC 1621 ) and TUBA ( TCP and UDP with Bigger Addresses, RFC 1347 ).

Simple mechanical pole wood lathes were used to make cups and bowls.

Simple natural or religious symbols such as ' The Sun ', ' The Star ' and ' The Cross ' were also incorporated into pub signs, sometimes being adapted to incorporate elements of the heraldry ( e. g. the coat of arms ) of the local lords who owned the lands upon which the pub stood.

Simple irons less commonly used than in the past were simply a large copper bit on a handle, heated in a flame.

The Dude is mostly inspired by Jeff Dowd, a man the Coen brothers met while they were trying to find distribution for the feature film, Blood Simple.

" Exline knew Barry Sonnenfeld from New York University and Sonnenfeld introduced Exline to the Coen brothers while they were trying to raise money for Blood Simple.

Simple Compact Cassette audio tape recorders were commonly used for data storage and distribution on home computers at a time when floppy disk drives were very expensive.

Similar instructions were published in 1747 in The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Simple by Hannah Glasse under the title of ' Yorkshire pudding '.

Two widely distributed commercial recordings by The Boston Camerata, " Simple Gifts " ( 1995 ) and " The Golden Harvest " ( 2000 ), were recorded at the Shaker community of Sabbathday Lake, Maine, with active cooperation from the surviving Shakers, whose singing can be heard at several points on both recordings.

Simple water infrastructures were also constructed.

Simple languages were designed to work on minimal hardware so tend to " directly drive " the renderer.

Simple gardening tools such as kunai and sickles were used as weaponry so that, if discovered, a ninja could claim they are his tools and not weapons, despite their ability to be used in battle.

" Simple rectangular timber boxes, four to a wagon, they were used to convey coal from the Lancashire collieries to Liverpool, where they were transferred to horse drawn carts by crane.

Simple balloons were used as surveillance aircraft as early as the 18th century.

Alan II, Duke of Brittany and Haakon, son of Harald Fairhair of Norway, were both fostered in Æthelstan ’ s court, and he provided a home for his half-sister's son, Louis, the exiled heir of Charles the Simple.

They each provided well known songs during this period, in addition to the singles, Pinder's songs " A Simple Game " ( 1968 ) & " So Deep Within You " ( 1969 ) were successfully covered by The Four Tops, Pinder winning an Ivor Novello Award for " A Simple Game ", Elkie Brooks later covered Hayward's " Nights in White Satin ".

Simple ported versions were also released for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

They were also referred to A Simple HTML Editor ( ASHE ).

Also released as singles from the album were the tracks " Simple Kind of Life " and " Bathwater ".