SIMPLE MINDS - 'DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME' (Ian Stone's 2023 Extended & Remixed 'Epic '85' Version)

AWESOME ROCK CLASSIC HERE FROM 1985 CALLED 'DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME' RECORDED AND RELEASED BY GLASGOW NEW WAVE ROCK BAND CALLED 'SIMPLE MINDS' THE TRACK IS FEATURED ON THEIR WORLDWIDE ACCLAIMED SEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM CALLED 'ONCE UPON A TIME' AS AN EXTRA BONUS SONG WELL IT ACTUALLY WAS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE A ONE OFF SINGLE THAT WAS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE SOUNTRACK TO THE 1985 MOVIE SMASH HIT 'THE BREAKFAST CLUB' WHICH STARRED 'EMILIO ESTEVEZ' AND THE FANTASTIC ACTOR CALLED 'JUDD NELSON'.THE SONG WAS FIRST OFFERED TO 'ROXY MUSIC' AND ALSO THE TIMELESS PUNK ROCKER CALLED 'BILLY IDOL' BUT BOTH DECLINED TO RECORD IT.THE WRITER OF THE TUNE 'DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME' TRIED INITIALLY TO PERSUADE THE LEAD SINGER AND FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE GROUP 'SIMPLE MINDS' THE LEGENDARY ONE OFF 'JIM KERR' BUT HE REALLY DIDN'T LIKE THE SONG ONE BIT BUT AFTER HIS THEN WIFE 'CHRISSIE HYNDE' OF THE NEW WAVE BAND 'THE PRETENDERS' STEPPED IN AND PERSUADED HIM TO RECONSIDER HE AND THE BAND RECORDED SEVERAL DEMO VERSIONS OF IT BUT AS THE DEADLINE FOR MUSIC TO BE INCLUDED IN THE FILM 'THE BREAKFAST CLUB' APPROACHED THEY HIT ON THIS FINAL MIX WITH A MORE COMMERCIAL ROCK TAKE ON IT BUT VIRGIN RECORDS WERE PLEASED AND SO THEY RECORDED THE SONG TO MUCH PLEASURE OF 'SIMPLE MINDS' FANS GLOBALLY.ANYWAY THE HISTORY OF THE GROUP CAN BE TRACED RIGHT BACK TO 1977 WHEN THEY STARTED OUT AS 'JOHNNY AND THE SELF ABUSERS' AS THE SCOTTISH PUNK SCENE AT THAT TIME WAS HAPPENING ALSO COMING THROUGH WERE DUNFERLINE BASED BAND CALLED 'THE SKIDS' AND AN EARLY VERSION OF 'THE REZILLOS'.THEIR FIRST L.P. PUT OUT ON THE INDEPENDENT ZOOM RECORD LABEL WAS CALLED 'LIFE IN A DAY' WHICH WAS RECORDED BACK IN 1979 BUT IT DIDN'T CAUSE MUCH OF A RIPPLE ON ANY CHART AT THAT POINT IN TIME BUT 'JIM KERR' STUCK TO HIS GUNS AND THE GROUP CARRIED ON PUTTING OUT SEVERAL ALBUMS AND GRADUALLY THEY HAD A LARGE FOLLOWING AND OUT WENT THOSE HUNDRED MILE AN HOUR PUNK BASED TUNES AND IN COME MUSIC AND LYRICS ABOUT MORE SERIOUS SUBJECTS RELEVANT TO THE EARLY EIGHTIMES TIMES.ON THE 1982 'NEW GOLD DREAM' RELEASE BY 'SIMPLE MINDS' WE WERE INTRODUCED TO CLASSIC TRACKS 'SOMEONE SOMEWHERE IN SUMMERTIME' AND THE SOUL SEARCHING EPIC SONG CALLED 'PROMISED YOU A MIRACLE' AND BANG OFF THEY WENT FROM PLAYING TO A FEW HUNDRED KIDS AROUND GLASGOW TO EVENTUALLY BECOMING A STADIUM BAND WORLDWIDE.ANYWAY HERE THEN 'IAN STONE' HAS TAKEN THE ORIGINAL SINGLE RELEASE AND ADDED A GREAT EXTENSION TO THE TRACK WHILE ALSO ENHANCING THAT SOUND QUALITY BRINGING IT HQ STANDARD READY FOR TODAY'S 2023 AUDIENCES TO FULLY ENJOY.THERE IS ALSO A WONDERFUL REMIX TO IT AS WELL REMASTERING FROM THE ORIGINAL 1985 TAPES SO SIT BACK AND MARVEL AT THIS SCOTTISH ROCK CLASSIC TRACK.