Simple Minds: how we made Don't You (Forget About Me)

Jim Kerr: ‘I did the big la-la-la-la-la ending because I didn’t have any lyrics’It was the mid-80s and we were on the verge of making it big all over the world, having just released Sparkle in the Rain. However, as with many UK bands, the US was proving tough to crack. Then our record company came to us with an idea. The director John Hughes was making a movie called The Breakfast Club, and they thought it would be a great vehicle for their bands. All this sounded great until t