Jim Kerr is on a Zoom call from Los Angeles a few days out from Simple Minds embarking on their biggest tour of the United States and Canada since 1986. “Honestly, we're thrilled,” Kerr enthuses.

“We were already feeling the pressure,” remembers Kerr, “but Jimmy was relentless. ‘You’ve got to come up with something special,’” Iovine told the band. “’You have to come up with something. We have ...

With live music off the table for nearly two years, the period of early quarantine amidst pandemic became a creative time for Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr, who set to work on the group’s 19th studio ...

“I came here 20 years ago, and at that point, one of the reasons I came here was I thought the writing was on the wall,” says Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr, speaking to Yahoo Entertainment over Zoom ...

When the Scottish band Simple Minds made their live debut on stage at the Satellite City club in the city center of Glasgow on January 17, 1978, it’s fair to wonder just how big the four teenagers in ...