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Simple Minds enjoyed a hugely successful career, attaining 24 top 40 singles on the UK Singles Chart, and 23 top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart, including five number one albums. They have sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, and were the most commercially successful Scottish band of the 1980s. Despite numerous lineup changes throughout their existence, Simple Minds continue to record music and tour globally, with their most recent studio album Direction of the Heart releasing in 2022.
Despite nearing 50 years together, the band remain revered and they continued to be adored by fans across the
globe to this day. This new triple CD set celebrates the longevity, commercial success and enduring influence of
Simple Minds, containing three live broadcast recordings of the band from various junctures in their career.

First up on DISC ONE is Simple Minds’ show at the Fforde Grene Hotel in 1979. Situated in Leeds, England,
the show demonstrates the early stylings of the band shortly after they formed but before their major breakthrough.
DISC TWO features the band’s legendary performance at Glastonbury festival on 25th June 1995. Performing a then greatest-hits of sorts, the band were on electric form and demonstrated exactly why they were voted
‘the world’s best live band’ just a few years prior.
DISC THREE concludes this set with a show in the band’s native Glasgow, Scotland at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
on 5th September 2005. Playing a host of classics and new material alike, the show performed that night
proved Simple Minds were still as vital as ever, even at this stage of their career.