Simple Minds: 'Love Song' - Live At The Sse Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland (2013)

"In 1981, when the band were ensconced in a flat in Edinburgh preparing new material, producer John Leckie apparently suggested that Kerr should move away from abstract imagery and just pen a simple love song. By the time they did that, for 'Sons and Fascination', the band had switched producer to Gong’s Steve Hillage, who shared their love of Krautrock, and they plunged further into pulsating electronic rock. Here, though, the band’s thick, juddering rhythms begin a transformation into something sleeker and more expansive, and while stadiums are still years away, 'Love Song' still sounds so gigantic that few venues could hold it. Although the same sessions would produce the equally thrilling The American, Simple Minds never sounded more brutal, more insistent or more invincible." - Dave Simpson, 'Simple Minds: 10 of the best', The Guardian, 19/3/2015.

[@arcadoli]

Wow, I love this song and this version so much !

[@rory2911]

Bass line ❤️🌟

[@daveyt4802]

Wow, what a show to attend in person!!

[@jscobie4]

Still brilliant!!!

[@anibalbabilonia1867]

Freaking awesome! 🥰👉❤

[@michaelbrady8517]

Jim's still got the moves eventually ha ha brilliant well done

[@DonVideoGuy007]

Yes, Michael... and; unless one or both music festivals are cancelled at the last minute, Jim's dance moves will be on full display once again "live in concert" on July 9 in Aix-les-Bains (near Lyons, France) during the Festival Musilac, and also on July 3 in northern France at the music festival in Belfort.

[@michaelperkins9404]

What a band. Just amazing - better than all those late 70s punk pop bands including u2 & The Clash. Best song of theirs is SHES A RIVER - it’s so powerful

[@Davidlouis3]

Fkn brilliant

[@tracyd3022]

Amazing 👏👏👏👏

[@steveszewczyk4179]

Brilliant

[@luisalbertosanchezpalma9893]

Que música....siguen siendo los mejores desde siempre....saludos desde Santiago de Chile

[@elmondomondo9217]

Still brilliant Jim 🤣 Xx

[@javier86050]

Supergarcía en antena 3, José María García

[@deegee6116]

anyone know the line-up here please?

[@SteapaSnotor]

The best one.

[@KirstineTermansen-ct5tq]

Do you wanna the magic flamingos, and. Rescue the heard. But don't go here's, pirat grave

[@johnqueen1320]

Toryglen finest🇨🇮

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

I loved this from the moment I heard it on Radio One. For me, they didn't produce anything interesting from the mid-80s onwards; the period of the early 80s was perhaps an artistic fluke for this band.

[@gin878]

Ignorant

[@StuartSimms-gj5ui]

Better when thay had mick McNeil derek forbes now thay just live on past glories Charlie still throws in a shift mind .

[@thatsodd6014]

Too bad Jim Kerr cannot sing live. Ruining a great song.

[@shadowbanned4149]

Ya good luck with y@ plastic God of this earth the action starts in the other realm