Simple Minds - Celebrate, live French TV 1981.wmv

The first of three clips from a live performance in French TV, " Echo des Bananes" 1981. A fantastic performance and Jim Kerr has never been cooler than here. GREAT!

[@andjavgarven]

The best Simple Minds era. (1979 - 1985)

[@brucefindlay]

A young band, full of hope, full of dreams, full of ideas taking on the established order.... confusing and teasing and all with a throbbing heartbeat....It was an unmitigated joy to be involved. #longlivetherevolution

[@ludochem]

The band never was the same after you and Mick left. Huge fan of 80s Simple Minds.

[@brucefindlay]

@@ludochem hey, people move on. Those first few years, the LPs they made, the tours we did around the world...oh it was all so special. Nothing ever lasts forever. We're all still friends...👍✌❤

[@ludochem]

@@brucefindlay Absolutely. I d say compared to other succesful bands from the same period who relied very much on songs, Simple Minds was more of a chemistry between musicians,. Every LP had ther own sonic identity.Something very spiritual come from their music.Of course we all have moved on a long time ago. You can still be proud of the legacy ! (I know all members of the band are)

[@lynnejennings4958]

Agree with so many of the comments below... They were the coolest band on the planet until the disgraceful "Don't you forget about..." And became the poor man's U2... So many fabulous songs before then, I'll go to my grave remembering them as MY band, there will never be anything to touch Early Simple Minds...

[@nickpn23]

Totally agree on the time line.

[@morfi3395]

I think Alive and kicking was even far worse as well as the whole album. Total different band they became. A shame

[@philippecordier5990]

Les Simple Minds n'ont jamais été aussi bons qu'à leurs débuts, après les grosses productions et la notoriété les ont tués,comme U2 d'ailleurs.Là ils dégagent une énergie incroyable,et le son inégalé!Waow

[@TheNouveauxdecadence]

Gawd they were sooooo good before they went crap by 1985!

[@thedoc1210]

hahaha was just thinking they should have split up before new gold dream, in fact Jim Kerr is a total fanny in this

[@nickpearce9441]

They wanted to make money so they wrote radio freindly songs. Moody and experimental does not make money.

[@4robjak]

amazing performance

[@lylymad]

This is one of the most fascinating performances I've ever seen. What a song, what a performer...The Minds were the best back then, before the mid 80's I would say. Absolutely mesmerizing! Thanks for posting.

[@soulminer]

One of the biggest sell outs in rock history.They could have been avante garde for so much longer.

[@suz5862]

@@soulminer I second that unequivocally

[@alexfowler8608]

Absolutely the best out of Glasgow

[@dominicwindram437]

@@suz5862 Empires and Dance was such an innovative album. After, New Gold Dream, it was all very disappointing, unless one finds hackneyed stadium rock appealing.

[@suz5862]

@@dominicwindram437 Totally agree.

[@fuckamericanidiot]

aaaaaaaall by hand, not even a sequencer or drum machine or any tape sample loops, as far as I can hear; I love the way the drums and the keyboard sound, lumbering together, great stuff

[@Silvia-rm4uy]

Absolutly cool ,Jim was fashion beautiful ,He moves like Jim Morrison in this video

[@jessicakeast9766]

Jim looks high as a kite here. He's so mesmerising!

[@ricardoroberto7054]

He usually was as high as a kite.

[@DickHuitink]

I also wonder about that so many times.... Sons of fascination was "the" best wave album ever made. With new gold dream they became popular and that was the end of good music

[@TheNouveauxdecadence]

New Gold Dream WAS and IS forever STUNNING though. After New Gold Dream it went to hell minus Up On The Catwalk and Speed Your Love To Me in from 1983. They didn't get decent again until Cry in 2002. But 1979-1982 is THE most PERFECTION period for Simple Minds.

[@RobinParmar]

You are exactly correct. Those two singles deserve to be remembered from 1983.

[@CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

Dark. So VERY dark. Their zenith. Wish I was in Northampton in July!

[@crieff1sand2s]

proper trance music - excellent post......:-)

[@35sixer]

So cool, love their early years all the way up to New Gold Dream..

[@alkwor]

lightyears beyond all

[@gilles.leguen]

alll live synth !!! it's f.... beautiful !!!!!

[@RobinParmar]

Mick was a great guy. Though I only talked to him once, he had no pretentions at all. And his work is crazy good.

[@seanb480]

The cornerstone of this band was Mick. His orchestration was above all other synth players.

[@gilles.leguen]

@@seanb480 i'm a fan.

[@Novacoma]

The urge to be a rock star is hard to fight for any musician. Even those that claim not to give a shit.

[@daleparfitt7243]

Best band in world

[@EAB311]

this is peak jim energy

[@Premonition64]

It's March 1982, they perform Promised You a Miracle at this gig

[@davidwmoon2692]

Jim doing The Fly, 11 years before Bono did it!!!

[@stevenhewitson1317]

Zoo station is a rip off of I travel. In fact they ripped off Empires and dance.

[@gerardohagan7474]

I was just going to say the same thing lol

[@dardar7909]

Heard bono on desert island discs praising the minds. One of his choices was 'someone somewhere ' - the only one ever to choose a minds track?

[@stephaniedutin9803]

Qu elle Talent qu elle charme toute ma jeunesse .💯💯👍👍😻❤🖤🖤❤❤❤❤

[@themindsable]

Oui hein excellent ❤

[@massimilianoizzi9324]

Magic sound magic feeling magic groove Top Class Band

[@themindsable]

Le sommet exceptionnel

[@TheNouveauxdecadence]

HOW could a band like Simple Minds who made SUCH breathtaking music in the beginning sell out as harshly as they did :-(

[@kevinmcdonald2735]

U plonker

[@CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

because they came from very poor working class backgrounds and needed the money. only the middle class artists have the luxury of not selling out - mind you in from 1984 onwards everyone, even Bowie chased the dollar. If you honestly believe if you were actually talented enough to be a professional recording artist then and would have resisted then you are a bigger liar than already appears to be the case

[@MrJoj1977]

@@CONSIDERABLYMORE1 New Order didn't sell out, something that is paying huge dividends for them now. Sticking to Factory meant they had no hope of distributing their music in anything like the same numbers as classic sell-outs, The Cure and Simple Minds. Simple Minds fall in artistic quality is pretty spectacular. This tune is absolutely magnificent. So many people haven't heard it because of how lame (most of) their famous music is.

[@suz5862]

@@MrJoj1977 Indeed. @considerably more1 has probably not heard of New Order or any of multitudes of other bands and singers who have steadfastly refused to compromise their artistic integrity.

[@lynnejennings4958]

Great comment...

[@johnnyblunder]

brilliant,minds at there best..

[@CONSIDERABLYMORE1]

this is the best recorded version of this great number - pity the original tape cannot be found, remastered, and released

[@emile235]

i could watch this 100 times thanks

[@chantalchantal8063]

Jolis Jim et Derek. Belle prestation

[@grahamburns6337]

that was the days,thanx boys

[@stephaniedutin9803]

J adore cette chanson qu elle Talent vive depeche mode ❤👍💯😻❤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@goldsaj]

A Gloriously, Majestic Anthem..

[@clem7415]

Absolutely wonderful ! It just takes us back to our young days . Great version , one more TREASURE that's it .

[@martimusichannel]

so good

[@1968shred]

holy shit, this rocks

[@martimusichannel]

so good so amazing

[@kimdawcatgirl]

Really love this video and song! Thanks for downloading this!

[@veroniquechatelain9985]

Amazing ! ❤️❤️❤️

[@carlosdossantos6257]

Música belíssima ...da melhor qualidade e sempre SIMPLE MINDS .

[@beingof1]

he der i'm listening simpl minds right now. Its so nice, i want to hear the same song twice celebrate.

[@user-mi7ld3ox4d]

COOL!🌟

[@martimusichannel]

jesus so god

[@chantalchantal8063]

J'adore cette vidéo. Jim kerr wahou sexy. Danse sensuelle oh là là

[@stephaniedutin9803]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💯💯

[@oliviergeoffroy9823]

kerr's voice was at that time very closed to a mix of alan vega and ian curtis after that he found his own style ..a great singer with fantastic musicians this line up for me was at his best in this period especialy sons and fascination and sisiter feeling call. lp's...

[@morfi3395]

Whaaaat....the voice of Ian Curtis is never matched by anyone.... Jim was initially very much influenced by Brian Ferry....he mimics the style even.

[@oliviergeoffroy9823]

Ok ok i meant hé sas closed not similar ....try a band called ist ist à verty good band and for sure brillantly closed To joy division ...tell me 😉

[@dominiquemaurel3422]

❤️ ❤️ 😍 💕 ❤️ 😍 😍 💕

[@pme2001]

Still an Awesome Classic after all these years! A benchmark for all the shite bands of today to try and emulate! This sounded great at the recent Dalby Forest gig which i uploaded!

[@campeondelospesados]

Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing We're what's happening

[@fuckamericanidiot]

I love KZbin.

[@mariorecuero7451]

Brilliant version........ surely AI can recreate this into a decent recording and re-release.

[@soulerboi]

They look, move and sound like depeche mode after 2000s

[@soulerboi]

And a bit of rolling stones and the doors thrown in

[@djphineart]

So cool and vital, you can hear the influences from warhol's factory to Neu! How did they ever slide to the depths of cheese like Alive and Kicking?

[@antunivanovic]

I guess, we can always blame U2 for that :) but then, Minds had their own appetite for success and it came at a price.

[@mantra3000]

Boy, Jim Kerr looked absolutely TERRIFIC...

[@RobertAhlquist]

Yes. Cooler than cool.

[@vanianeves3740]

Handsome

[@emile235]

no i don;t think this would've made the theme tune to The Breakfast Club

[@cnfuzz]

That program ran from 1982 onwards not 81

[@DirkDienstag]

Klasse, leider verabschieden sich die Videobänder.

[@nickpn23]

I loved/hated this band. It was good.

[@Hwral]

Guess Jim watched Gary Numan's Cars clip before doing this, gazing through some tambourine, heh heh.

[@CatoMinor]

Indeed!!! I thought the same thing.

[@braker78]

Clearly you didnt see them perform this year on their 5x5 tour.....

[@timcarr6381]

The band that peaked at New Gold Dream, then went down the pan attempting to be self righteous.....

[@RobinParmar]

They peaked at "Empires and Dance", but I can still listen to NGD.

[@morfi3395]

The albums they made between 79 and 83 were great. Powerfull. A waste and totally unecessary to made crap like alive and kicking. They became a total different band.

[@ricardoroberto7054]

They tried to become U2 for some godforsaken reason. Empires and Dance is still brilliant.

[@stephenhuitson8948]

@pme2001 Lot of old people blocking the toilets with colostomy bag groans and hearing aid interference. Not that i'm the big sprightly gaffer i once was, but turning up to watch a bit of post punk/new wave and listening to powdered egg and stories of V2 rockets missing your house in the middle of Alive & kicking takes the shine out of the night. i was hoping there would be more talent than what was on the stage, but the best if found that night was a woman that resembled frank cannon.

[@lmread7122]

Hmmm. Jim or Kenny, Jim or Kenny - they are both too delicious!

[@CatoMinor]

3:09 : for sure inspirated to Gary Numan's Cars video: the face inside tambourine. Look at 0,53 of this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f56We62uocani9U .

[@petroskwnstantakos1520]

Petros

[@stephaniedutin9803]

Erreur simple minds j adore depeche mode aussi 😂😂

[@ajs41]

Are they trying to sound like Kraftwerk here?

[@cnfuzz]

Kraftwerk could never make a wall of sound like simple minds or numan , they only do little farty synth sounds

[@cnfuzz]

The bono-fication of pastor Kerr started early on it seems , i always thought the instrumental side was great but Kerr really had a Jesus complex.

[@massimilianoizzi9324]

Stop war in Ucraina