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SIMPLE MINDS‘CELEBRATE - THE GREATEST HITS +’

2CD / 3CD Collections with 2 new tracksRELEASE DATE: 25TH MARCH 2013

“One of the things I’m most proud of is that people say to me what Simple Minds are you talking about? The avant-garde, the art-rock, the pop, the ambient, the instrumental group, the political, the folk, the stadium band? We’ve been on one hell of a journey. To play all those different styles but at the same time be quintessentially Simple Minds is an amazing thing.” Jim Kerr.Following the success and acclaim of last year’s X5 boxset and the 5 X 5 tour, Virgin Records will release Celebrate - The Greatest Hits + collection, a comprehensive overview of 35 years of one of Britain’s most successful bands, taking in the innovative sheen of Promised You A Miracle and Glittering Prize, the anthemic sweep of Waterfront and Sanctify Yourself, the firebrand strand of Belfast Child and Mandela Day and the singalong wonder of Don’t You (Forget About Me) and Alive & Kicking, and bringing things right up to date with the inclusion of two new tracks: Broken Glass Park and Blood Diamonds.Simple Minds have been many things to many people: sound scapers, sound-shapers, soundtrack makers, serial chart-toppers. They have influenced acts as diverse as the Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream, Moby and The Horrors. They have been sampled by Nicky Minaj, David Guetta, Joey Negro and Freddy Bastone. They have provided memorable movie moments for directors Christian Carion (L’Affaire Farewell), Gregor Jordan (The Informers), Cameron Crowe (Elizabethtown) and, of course, John Hughes (The Breakfast Club). They have topped the British charts half a dozen times, with the studio albums Sparkle In The Rain (1984), Once Upon A Time (1985) and Street Fighting Years as well as the Ballad Of The Streets EP (both 1989), the concert recording Live In The City Of Light (1987), and the compilation Glittering Prize 81/92, and returned to the UK Top Ten with Graffiti Soul, their most recent studio album, in 2009.

Named after a lyric – ‘So simple minded’ to be exact – from David Bowie’s seminal 1972 single The Jean Genie, Simple Minds evolved out of Johnny & the Self Abusers, the ‘rank and file’ punk group Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill had formed in April 1977. By the time Saints And Sinners, the sole Abusers single, was issued on Chiswick six months later, Simple Minds, featuring bassist Derek Forbes, drummer Brian McGee and keyboard-player Mick MacNeil, were already moving towards a darker, broodier sound that owed a debt to the Velvet Underground but also the Krautrock of Can, Kraftwerk and Neu! Following their chart debut with the Life In A Day album in April 1979, Simple Minds recorded some of the most beguiling, inventive, adventurous music of the post-punk period and set the standard for the British alternative scene with the albums Real To Real Cacophony (also 1979), Empires And Dance (1980) and the pioneering ‘twin’ releases Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call (1981). The most prolific and fast-evolving band of a generation that also included The Cure, the Psychedelic Furs and Joy Division/New Order, in 1982 they went on to make the landmark New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84), which marked the debut of drummer Mel Gaynor and served as the template for U2’s The Unforgettable Fire two years later.

Simple Minds went stratospheric with Once Upon A Time and became a band with a mission, the first to commit to the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert held at Wembley Stadium in July 1988, an event for which they wrote Mandela Day, included on Street Fighting Years the following year. Following Mandela’s release, Simple Minds also played the Freedom Concert, again at Wembley Stadium, in April 1990, and the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Tribute in Hyde Park in 2008. In the intervening years, they have graced the Top 20 with the shimmering singles Let There Be Love, See The Lights, Stand By Love, She’s A River, Hypnotised and Glitterball, and the album charts with Real Life (1991), Good News From The Next World (1995), Neapolis (1998) and Black & White 050505 (2005), and covered material by many of the artists who have influenced them on Neon Lights (2001).

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Celebrate – Greatest Hits + will be available in two formats: a 2CD version which features 36 songs, spanning 12 albums over 34 years, and a 3CD version which features 50 songs, spanning 13 albums over 36 years, including the band’s interpretation of Patti Smith’s ‘Dancing Barefoot’ from their 2001 covers album, Neon Lights. Both collections include two new songs: Broken Glass Park and Blood Diamonds. Time to celebrate the majesty of Simple Minds… Taken from the Celebrate – Greatest Hits + biography. Simple Minds are one of the UK’s most successful bands, having achieved six No.1 albums in the UK as well hitting the top spot in countless other territories including Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Australia and New Zealand.Simple Minds are also arguably one of the best live bands in the world. On their extensive 28-date March and April tour - taking place in just 33 days - expect to hear songs from Celebrate… and the band’s extensive back catalogue. The show will be in two halves with an interval and no support - a whole evening of Simple Minds.Simple Minds are Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Mel Gaynor, Andy Gillespie and Ged Grimes.

SIMPLE MINDS GREATEST HITS TOUR DATES:

MARCH 2013Thu 28 BELFAST WATERFRONT 02890 334 400Fri 29 CARLISLE SANDS CENTRE 01228 633 766Sun 31 NEWCASTLE CITY HALL 0191 277 8030

APRIL 2013Mon 01 ABERDEEN MUSIC HALL 0844 499 9990Tue 02 DUNDEE CAIRD HALL 0844 499 9990Thu 04 LLANDUDNO VENUE CYMRU ARENA 01492 872 000Fri 05 LEICESTER DE MONTFORT HALL SOLD OUTSat 06 WOLVERHAMPTON CIVIC HALL 0870 320 7000Mon 08 BRIGHTON DOME SOLD OUT Tue 09 PLYMOUTH PAVILIONS 0845 146 1460Thu 11 LINCOLN ENGINE SHED 0844 888 8766Fri 12 NOTTINGHAM ROYAL CONCERT HALL 0115 989 5555Sat 13 LEEDS O2 ACADEMY 0844 477 2000Mon 15 BOURNEMOUTH O2 ACADEMY 0844 477 2000Tue 16 MARGATE WINTER GARDENS 01843 292 795Wed 17 SOUTHEND CLIFFS PAVILION 01702 351 135Fri 19 BLACKPOOL OPERA HOUSE 0844 856 1111Sat 20 LIVERPOOL EMPIRE SOLD OUT Mon 22 CAMBRIDGE CORN EXCHANGE SOLD OUT Tue 23 GUILDFORD G LIVE SOLD OUT Thu 25 READING HEXAGON SOLD OUT Fri 26 SHEFFIELD CITY HALL 0114 278 9789Sat 27 HULL CITY HALL 01482 226 655Mon 29 BRISTOL COLSTON HALL 0117 922 3686Tue 30 PORTSMOUTH GUILDHALL 023 92824 355

MAY 2013Thu 02 OXFORD NEW THEATRE 0844 871 3020Fri 03 NORWICH UEA SOLD OUT Sat 04 IPSWICH REGENT SOLD OUT

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Celebrate – Greatest Hits+ 2CD version:CD1:Life In A DayChelsea GirlChangelingI TravelCelebrateThe AmericanLove SongPromised You A MiracleGlittering PrizeSomeone Somewhere (In Summertime)WaterfrontSpeed Your Love To MeUp On The CatwalkDon’t You (Forget About Me)Alive And KickingSanctify YourselfAll The Things She SaidGhost Dancing

CD2:Belfast ChildThis Is Your LandKick It InLet There Be LoveSee The LightsStand By LoveShe’s A RiverHypnotisedGlitterballWar BabiesSpaceCrySpacefaceHomeRocketsStars Will Lead The WayBlood Diamonds *Broken Glass Park **New 2013 track

Celebrate – Greatest Hits+ 3CD version:CD1:Life In A DayChelsea GirlChangelingI TravelCelebrateThe AmericanLove SongSweat In BulletTheme From Great CitiesPromised You A MiracleGlittering PrizeSomeone Somewhere (In Summertime)New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) WaterfrontSpeed Your Love To MeUp On The Catwalk

CD2:Don’t You Forget About MeAlive And KickingSanctify YourselfAll The Things She SaidGhost DancingPromised You A Miracle (Live)Belfast ChildMandela DayBikoThis Is Your LandKick It InLet It All Come DownLet There Be LoveSee The LightsStand By LoveReal Life

CD3:She’s A RiverHypnotisedGlitterballWar BabiesSpaceJeweller To The StarsDancing BarefootCrySpacefaceOne Step CloserHomeStrangerStay VisibleRocketsStars Will Lead The WayStagefrightBlood Diamonds *Broken Glass Park **New 2013 trackWWW.SIMPLEMINDS.COM

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