Simple Minds - Streetfighting Years Tour Documentary 1989
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- Опубликовано: 13 дек 2022
- This is a short documentary following Simple Minds on the European leg of the Streetfighting Years Tour in 1989. It was broadcast on UK TV in 1990.
I've had to trim some small parts out of the video due to copyright infringements.
This was a pivotal moment for the band back then. After this tour, Mick MacNeil suggested that they take a break for a bit. He wanted to spend more time with his family, and frankly the previous 5 or 6 years of album releases and huge tours was taking its toll on them. Jim and Charlie were on a high and wanted to keep the momentum going, so Mick parted ways from them, and didn't come back. If they had taken a break, the band may be very very different 30+ years later.
I could never understand, why U2 got bigger than Simple Minds. Musicaly seen unbeatable, Simple Minds. Still great today.
Because Bono was friends of Epstein, Schwab, etc
yes it's true, I think they deserve more . I used to like U2 and I still do but nowadays I don't listen to them . Lately I rediscovered Simple Minds and I just can't stop to listen to them. The album New gold dream is a piece of art , songs like" Big Sleep ", "somebody up there likes you" also. I need to listen to them to satisfy my soul. I like their humbleness very much and I hope the new generation will make them shine and give them gold ❤❤❤
Simple Minds' record company dropped the ball with their 1985 breakthrough hit, Don't You Forget About Me. Although the single topped Billboard charts and the video won MTV awards, the song was only available on The Breakfast Club soundtrack album until it was finally included on their 1992 Greatest Hits album. Had Simple Minds released an album featuring DYFAM in 1985, it would've no doubt gone Platinum and propelled them into the top tier of international touring acts.
One reason. ANC pretention turned everyone off. We’re not interested in your politics. Just Rock n Roll.
Too much change between albums and personnel
Video of brilliant things ❤ 🙏
They are still on tour in 2024 🎉🤩
Remember seeing them at Roundhay Park in 89 brilliant
I was there aswell
Same here.. amazing gig apart from all about eve & the long walk home to Bradford as they played later than expected & missed my last bus 😂😂 well worth it ❤👍
@@georgiecross9921 sorry you had to walk all that way but it was worth it
@@user-xb3oy3vk7v well & truely worth it. Red hot day & the walk home was more one of those " floating on a cloud " after seeing the best band of the 80s bar none 👍
What great summer and a fantastic band. Happy days.
Love simple minds
Thank you very much, I did not know this documentary, I was lucky to be in the front row at the Madrid concert
Simple mind is the best he remember me the 80s in my youth.
best tour in the world that year. I was at Roundhay park and NEC
This is awesome. I had never seen this. Love this album; have bought it for multiple people over the years. Love the way it's produced. Was ecstatic when I found the vinyl in Germany many years ago.
by the time this came out they had really crawled up their own arses, long gone was the excitement and originality of their first 5 brilliant albums, sparkle in the rain and once apon a time had some highlights but street fighting years was the start of their worst period, you should have done your friends a favour and bought them one of their earlier albums instead.
Amazing!!!!…thank you for these memories👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you very much for sharing! I do love that period of Simple Minds career and this TV documentary is a real pleasure to watch. As always, Simple Minds manage to combine excellent music, a great sense of humour and wonderful landscapes.
First SM tour I saw. Fan ever since
Soooo beautiful!!
Thank you very much!!
👍🏻😉😍❤️💯👏🏼🔊🎶🙌🏼🏴
Got this on VHS! Too bad I've no video recorder to play it on.😢
Oh my God, it is fantastic! Can't find words, this docu leaves me completely breathless! Thanks for sharing! Love SM, love Jim Kerr! See you in Munnich next April!
Since 80ties a great fan, and never dissapointed!
Still one of my most favo bands, they are so honest in their music and emotion in it!!
I remember when SFY came out. The shows were massive, the album did well in the U.K - but I definitely felt it was the end of the band and that they had big crowds at these gigs only because of the OUAT release - all successfull bands get an extension on goodwill from the fans from the previous album cycle. If the current album is a dud, the band will feel it on the next cycle. And boy did it hit the band hard on the Real Life tour. Walloped into reality.
26th August 1989, Wembley stadium. Still got the T-shirt.
Taped the original and watched it over and over. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Wow! Thanks for this. Never seen this before filmed in Madrid and didn't know that Cardiff Arms Park was nearly pulled out. Glad it happened and Jin's voice brought across clearly his views on apartheid regarding the Welsh team in S Africa.
Hello Amanda, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??
Remember watching this in 1989 on Scottish TV (STV). The Rothesay bus load at the end…😂
Wow never seen this , and I thought I had seen everything online , thanks for sharing 🕺
A BIG thank you for this video. I recorded this doc to VHS from the TV back in 1989 with some others, transferred them to DVD in 2004. However, I discovered today while going through DVDs to transfer again to digital video it will no longer play - corrupt files (?). A great period in the Minds history. Thanks for sharing.
Ho visto decine di volte i simple minds dal vivo in Italia! Primo concerto nel 1982 a Bologna . ❤❤❤
Amazing.
Roundhay park was brilliant loved it
Incredible, I was at that concert in Madrid at the Vicente Calderon stadium, it was awesome
Great band great songs too 😊
I do remember watching this in 89 and the last time I saw them after 8 concerts the Nelson Mandela 70th birthday show at Wembley in 88
Great n1
Hello Loredana, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??
So good. My first gig was a year later at the Hockenheim ring. 17 years old and pretty obsessed.
Sometimes David Brent (in musician mode) seems modelled on Jim Kerr, 22:41 pretty much nailed it
Sessions
I was there. A lot of changes in Madrid. Old Atlético stadium doesn't exist. Silencers played too.
Which is best album - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) or Sparkle in the Rain?
Both the dogs bollocks for different reasons ✊️✊️
New Gold Dream is consistently good all though way through. Sparkle is front loaded with absolute bangers but fizzles out a little on the second side. Both are great though.
Empire & Dance 😎
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Who's the presenter? What a babe!
Alison Craig.
How come they got Lou Reed as support and us, in the uk outdoor shows, we got the crappy bleeding.. Silencers...Think I'd rather have OMD miming like 91, another 💩band but at least we knew the songs😂😁
What utter garbage Wall Of Love was. Tuneless crap. In hindsight, Once Upon A Time was their last great album.
Once Forbes & MacNeil left, the magic was over.
For me, their best lineup was with MacNeil, Forbes, & McGee.
New Gold Dream was still an excellent album with Gaynor on many of the tracks. Once Upon a Time was good, but a departure from the previous stuff. Then it falls off a cliff.