Product Review

Beginning with their 1979 Life In A Day album, Glasgow's Simple Minds recorded some of the most beguiling, inventive, adventurous music of the post-punk period and set the standard for the British alternative scene with the albums Real to Real Cacophony (also 1979), Empires and Dance (1980), and the pioneering 'twin' releases Sons and Fascination / Sister Feelings Call (1981). In 1982, they recorded the landmark New Gold Dream (81 82 83 84), which served as the template for U2's The Unforgettable Fire two years later.

In 1985, Simple Minds went stratospheric in the U.S. with their No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 and Mainstream Rock single 'Don't You (Forget About Me),' memorably featured as the theme to the John Hughes film The Breakfast Club. Later that year, the band released its most successful album, Once Upon a Time, which reached the Billboard 200's Top 10 and went gold, fueled by Top 5 Modern Rock hits 'Alive And Kicking' and 'Sanctify Yourself,' and the Top 10 'All The Things She Said,' all of which are included on the new ICON collection, as well as a new song, 'Broken Glass Park.'