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1985 single by Elementary Minds

"Don't You (Forget About Me)"
Dont You Forget About Me (alternative cover).jpg

Standard non-US artwork
Unmarried by Simple Minds
from the anthology The Breakfast Guild (Original Moving picture Soundtrack)
B-side "A Brass Ring in African Chimes"
Released 20 February 1985 (US)
eight April 1985 (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland)
Recorded Nov 1984[i]
Genre
  • New wave[2]
  • popular[2]
Length 4:xx
6:32 (extended version)
Label Virgin
A&One thousand (US)
Songwriter(s)
  • Keith Forsey
  • Steve Schiff
Producer(due south) Keith Forsey
Elementary Minds singles chronology
"Up on the Catwalk"
(1984) 		"Don't You (Forget Near Me)"
(1985) 		"Alive and Kicking"
(1985)
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"Don't You (Forget Near Me)"

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"Don't You (Forget Near Me)" is a song performed past Scottish rock band Simple Minds. It was written and composed by producer Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff, a guitarist and songwriter from the Nina Hagen band. The song plays during the opening (Schiff and Forsey's demo) and closing (Uncomplicated Minds' recording) credits of the John Hughes moving-picture show The Breakfast Lodge.

Recording history [edit]

The song was written and composed by producer Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff while scoring The Breakfast Club. Both were Simple Minds fans and wrote the vocal with the ring in heed. Forsey played a demonstration for the band's label, A&M Records, which invited him to run across the band backstage after one of their "Tour du Monde" shows in the U.S. However, A&Thou did non notify Simple Minds that Forsey would appear, and the band declined the offer of the song despite Forsey'due south enthusiasm for them.[3]

Forsey next offered "Don't You lot (Forget Virtually Me)" to Bryan Ferry, then to Baton Idol, whom Forsey was producing at the time, merely both declined.[3] [a] The record company suggested Corey Hart, who had a hit at the time with "Sunglasses at Night", but Forsey did not think Hart would be the right singer for the song.[four] Fixx lead singer Cy Curnin also passed.

Co-ordinate to Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr, the band was reluctant to record the song, as they felt they should just record their own fabric. "We are Simple Minds—we don't exercise songs that sound like Simple Minds. We are Unproblematic Minds. We practise our own songs," he recalled to the BBC in 2018. The band likewise were frustrated that their attempts to detect success in the U.Southward. market place had not succeeded in getting them significant radio airplay, and did not see how recording the song would turn out any better.[three]

The ring relented after persuasion from A&M and from Chrissie Hynde, Kerr's married woman at the fourth dimension, and after receiving a telephone telephone call from Forsey in which he reiterated his adoration for the ring.[5] Co-ordinate to 1 account, the ring "rearranged and recorded 'Don't You (Forget Nearly Me)' in three hours in the north London studio and promptly forgot about it,"[6] believing that it would be a throwaway song on the soundtrack to a forgettable film.[3]

In the process of recording, Simple Minds added parts such equally Kerr's "la lala" song fills. They so resumed piece of work on Once Upon a Fourth dimension, their adjacent album. However, some of the ring members had realized they had recorded something with genuine commercial potential.[3]

Music video [edit]

The music video, filmed within Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, was directed by Daniel Kleinman.[seven] It takes place in a darkened room with a chandelier, a rocking horse, a jukebox, and television sets displaying scenes from The Breakfast Club. The room gets increasingly cluttered with random objects as the video progresses until the last minute. The video was published on YouTube on 3 December 2010; every bit of July 2021, it had been viewed more than 200 one thousand thousand times.[8]

Release and reception [edit]

Continuing the rock direction recently taken on Sparkle in the Rain, but also reflecting their melodic synthpop past, the song caught the band at their commercial peak, and propelled by the success of The Breakfast Club, became a number-ane hit in the U.s. in May 1985[nine] and in Canada in June 1985. It is also the band's merely number-one hitting on the U.s.a. Top Rock Tracks chart, staying atop that nautical chart for three weeks. While only reaching number seven in the Britain, it stayed on the charts from 1985 to 1987, 1 of the longest timespans for any single in the history of the chart.[ citation needed ]

The song did not appear on the band's subsequent album Once Upon a Time, but it did appear on the 1992 greatest hits compilation Glittering Prize 81/92. Information technology before long became a fixture of the band's live sets – with an extended audience participation department during its inclusion on the 2022 tour to promote the ring's Big Music album.[ten]

Two versions were created for release. A short version, 4:23 in duration, appeared on the single and the original motility-picture soundtrack album of The Breakfast Club. A longer version, 6:32 in duration, was released as a 12-inch unmarried. This version contains longer breakdowns and drum fills, a 2nd appearance of the span, and a longer ending.

John Leland from Spin wrote, "'Don't You Forget About Me,' a romantic and melancholy dance track, therefore cuts ice both in the living room and on the trip the light fantastic floor."[11]

Track listing [edit]

7″: Virgin/VS749 (UK), 7″: A&1000 Records/AM-2703 (Us) [edit]

  1. "Don't Yous (Forget About Me)" – 4:xx
  2. "A Contumely Band in Africa" – five:10

12″: Virgin/VS749-12 (United kingdom), 12″: A&M Records/SP-12125 (US) [edit]

  1. "Don't Y'all (Forget About Me)" – half dozen:32
  2. "A Brass Band in African Chimes" – 9:22

12″: Virgin/VSX 1250 (Canada) [edit]

  1. "Don't You lot (Forget Virtually Me)" (extended version) – 6:32
  2. "Don't You (Forget About Me)" – iv:20
  3. "A Brass Band in Africa" – 5:10

1988 3″ CD: Virgin/CDT2 (UK) [edit]

  1. "Don't You (Forget About Me)" – 4:20
  2. "A Brass Band in African Chimes" – 9:22

1988 CD: A&Yard Records/75021 2375 ii (US) [edit]

  1. "Don't You (Forget Virtually Me)" (live) – 9:02
  2. "Bass Line" – 4:37
  3. "The American" – iii:33

1990 CD: Virgin/THEME10 (UK) [edit]

  1. "Don't You (Forget About Me)" – 6:35
  2. "Upwardly on the Catwalk" (extended version) – 7:36
  3. "A Brass Band in African Chimes" – ix:24

Personnel [edit]

  • Jim Kerr – atomic number 82 vocals
  • Charlie Burchill – guitar, keyboards
  • Mick MacNeil – composer, keyboards
  • Derek Forbes – bass guitar
  • Kenny Hyslop – drums
  • Mike Ogletree – drums
  • John Giblin – bass guitar
  • Mel Gaynor – drums, percussion

Charts and certifications [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Cover version [edit]

  • In 2001 Billy Idol, who refused the vocal in 1985 earlier it was offered over again to Simple Minds, recorded a version of the song for his 'Greatest Hits' anthology. It was released as a single in Frg but failed to chart.

See besides [edit]

  • List of number-one singles of 1985 (Canada)
  • List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1980s
  • List of Billboard Hot 100 number-i singles of 1985
  • List of Billboard Mainstream Rock number-1 songs of the 1980s
  • List of Dutch Top xl number-1 singles of 1985

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Baton Idol subsequently recorded a version for his 2001 compilation album Greatest Hits.

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External links [edit]

  • AllMusic: Keith Forsey

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_You_(Forget_About_Me)

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