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"Simple Minds performed at the BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park event yesterday, wowing the early-afternoon crowd with a seven-minute version of their 1985 smash &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t You (Forget About Me)&amp;#039;. After the band&amp;#039;s set, Digital Spy and some other journos caught up with frontman Jim Kerr and asked him all about how his band came to soundtrack Judd Nelson&amp;#039;s fist-raising on classic John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club.  &amp;gt; Manic Street Preachers bring the sun at Hyde Park UK return - review &amp;quot;We turned that down about a half-dozen times. We saw the movie and thought, &amp;#039;Nahh&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; Kerr said. &amp;quot;We were busy working and doing stuff and the record company - the big bad record company - were saying, &amp;#039;You don&amp;#039;t understand, this is going to be the movie of a generation, and he&amp;#039;s the Zeitgeist and all that&amp;#039;. We were like, &amp;#039;Really?&amp;#039; &amp;quot;It wasn&amp;#039;t that even they cajoled us, because we were sticking to our ground. But the fellow who produced the song, Keith Forsey, he came up to Glasgow and said, &amp;#039;I know you&amp;#039;re not going to do it, but can I hang out, because I&amp;#039;m a fan of the band, and maybe we&amp;#039;ll work together in the future?&amp;#039; &amp;quot;We said sure - we were working, he said, &amp;#039;Let me hang out for a week&amp;#039;. We liked Keith more than we liked his song. You know when you like someone and you&amp;#039;re in the pub... &amp;quot;He was very clever. He said, &amp;#039;Why don&amp;#039;t we do it... if it&amp;#039;s good, great, if it&amp;#039;s not, it&amp;#039;ll get the record company off your back&amp;#039;. So we did in a drafty studio in an afternoon, and thank God we did.      &amp;quot;It was great fun, and then we met John and apart from the whole movies thing, he was such a music fan. Strangely enough he was such an English music fan - Psychedelic Furs and The Cure and Morrissey. &amp;quot;In fact the other day I was thinking it was really Morrissey that should have done &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t You (Forget About Me)&amp;#039;. On his death bed, he would never do it, but that kind of lyric... It wasn&amp;#039;t really a Simple Minds thing. &amp;quot;But musically I think when you hear it coming on the radio, I think we put our Simple Minds heart into it. It&amp;#039;ll never be one of ours, but in a way it&amp;#039;s a song that belongs to everybody now. It&amp;#039;s not bad to have one of them either.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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