David Bowie said you’ve got to be dysfunctional to be an artist,” says Jim Kerr. “That chimed with me. The idea that you would risk everything to express yourself – och, you’ve probably got to be on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim Kerr (in red) and Simple Minds in the Marquee's backstage dressing room during their Real to Real Cacophony Tour, 1979 - ...

Formed in 1977 by Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill, Simple Minds (hailing from Glasgow, Scotland) were previously known as Johnny And The Self Abusers. Under that name they released one single (Saints ...

シンプル・マインズ（Simple Minds）のフロントマンであるジム・カー（Jim Kerr）が新たに開始したソロ・プロジェクト、Lostboy! AKA。今年1月に始動が宣言されて以来、その動向に注目が集まっていた本プロジェクトのデビュー・アルバムが、いよいよリリースさ ...

40 years on, Richard Foster revisits Simple Minds' classic New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) and finds an album full of dreamlike shifts in time, other worlds and disorientation In an extract from Jolly ...

Some 45 years or so after making their initial appearance during Britain’s post-punk era, Simple Minds mark their return courtesy of not one, but two new live albums, albeit each with a different ...

Simple Minds have announced that they are currently rehearsing material from their first five albums for a 2012 tour. Speaking about the move, frontman Jim Kerr said: "This is the set that so many who ...