Five reasons to see Simple Minds

An Evening with Simple Minds
When: Oct. 29 at 8 p.m.
Where: Orpheum Theatre
Tickets: from $39 at livenation.com or 1-855-985-5000
1: Don’t You (Forget About Me). Of course they’re going to play their biggest hit, which was actually written by producer Keith Forsey and songwriter Steve Schiff, and immortalized in the 1985 John Hughes film The Breakfast Club.
2: Forty years and counting. In the sure-to-make-at-least-some-of-us-feel-old category, the band formed in Glasgow in 1977