PREGNANT ROCKER Couldn't DO Song So She TALKED HUSBAND Into It...Became a SMASH! | Professor of Rock
6,709When the movie the Breakfast Club was trying to get their main song Don't You Forget About Me recorded, they were turned down by many bands including Billy Idol and initially Simple Minds. But Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders said yes. The only problem is, she was pregnant.. So she talked her husband into it, who happened to be Jim Kerr of Simple Minds. It became their biggest hit and one of the biggest hits of 1985. The story of Simple Minds Don't You Forget About me on Professor of Rock
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it's Simple Minds with “Don’t You Forget About Me:” The song is the money track from The Breakfast Club. It is synonymous with the iconic legacy of the film directed by the late John Hughes. Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff penned this track exclusively for The Breakfast Club. Forsey, who also co-wrote movie hits like "Shakedown" for Beverly Hills Cop II and the title track for Flashdance, oversaw the Breakfast Club soundtrack.
Keith Forsey revealed that Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music was his first pick to record the song, but Ferry declined. A big fan of the Scottish band Simple Minds, Keith decided to pitch the track to them by personally delivering a cassette demo. Simple Minds originally wanted to use their own song, "Alive and Kicking," for the film, but Don't You (Forget About Me) had been written specifically for the script—it was the only option. At first, the band couldn’t wrap their heads around why that was the case.
Simple Minds' lead singer Jim Kerr opened up about their initial frustration over not being allowed to record the song they wanted. "Wait a minute—you want us because you love the songs we write, but now you want us to do your song?" he recalled. At first, they flat-out refused to even consider it. Kerr and his bandmates were firmly against recording anything they hadn't written themselves. A lot of people turned this amazing song down… Breakfast Club co-producer, Michelle Manning said, “I remember offering the song to Billy Idol. He didn’t understand. I think a lot of people that passed will never say they passed. Cause we had the movie, and that demo which was literally just like the final song with Keith. And people wer...
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