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Simple Minds

Mandela Day

Rock
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Space
  • Ballad
  • Musical
song from
1979
  • 1989
  • 1979
  • 2002
  • 1988
  • 1978

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Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band who 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 best known for their #1 US, Canada and Netherlands hit single “Don’t You (Forget About Me)“, from the soundtrack of the John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club, #3 US hit single “Alive and Kicking” and #1 UK hit single Belfast Child. The band has sold more than 40 million albums since 1979. The core of the band is the two remaining founder members - Jim Kerr (vocals, songwriting) and Charlie Burchill (guitars, keyboards, other instruments, songwriting) - and drummer Mel Gaynor (who first joined the band in 1982). The other current band members are Andy Gillespie (keyboards) and Ged... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ Oh oh oh oh Mandela's free ... 25 years ago ... Na na na na Mandela day

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More songs by Simple Minds (See Charts): Someone, Chelsea Girl, Kick It In, See The Lights, Theme For Great Cities, Veldt, This Is Your Land, Someone Somewhere In Summertime, Hunter And The Hunted, and Life In A Day.

Popular in Rock (See Charts): Bohemian Rhapsody, Stairway To Heaven, Beat It, Give In To Me, Wherever You Will Go, Stigmatized, Nothing'S Changed, Hotel California, Imagine, and Nothing Else Matters.

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