Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)" topped the charts after it was released on "The Breakfast Club" soundtrack in 1985. “It sounded a little generic to us,” Jim Kerr, lead singer of the band, ...
Hughes had made a name for himself the prior year with his directorial debut, Sixteen Candles. Up to this time, “teen movies” had largely evolved from cautionary rebellion films in the 1950s to beach ...
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The Breakfast Club’s Nostalgia and Anxiety
Before nose rings, tattoos, obesity, and puberty blockers came to define adolescent experience, The Breakfast Club idealized its insecurities in a nonthreatening showcase that has reached its 40th ...
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How Simple Minds turned ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ into the ‘Breakfast Club’ anthem 40 years ago
When Simple Minds first heard “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” — their No. 1 single that would serve as the theme song and teenage anthem of the 1985 Brat Pack classic “The Breakfast Club” — it wasn’t ...
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