When Simple Minds first heard “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” — their No. 1 single that would serve as the theme song and teenage anthem of the 1985 Brat Pack classic “The Breakfast Club” — it wasn’t ...

For a retrospective feature on the song for Spin in 2015, different parties involved had different recollections of how this ‘80s classic was eventually recorded by Simple Minds. Forsey, who was the ...

Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)" topped the charts after it was released on "The Breakfast Club" soundtrack in 1985. “It sounded a little generic to us,” Jim Kerr, lead singer of the band, ...

Before nose rings, tattoos, obesity, and puberty blockers came to define adolescent experience, The Breakfast Club idealized its insecurities in a nonthreatening showcase that has reached its 40th ...