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Simple Minds, Soft Cell and Modern English have announced the Alive & Kicking Tour, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of their breakthrough album Once Upon a Time with a stop at Jones Beach on Fri, June 13, 2025 - tix: https://SIMPLEMINDS.jonesbeach.comSIMPLE MINDS UNVEIL EPIC NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR
Simple Minds announce a major North American headline tour – the legendary Scottish band’s biggest live run across the US and Canada in four decades. The Alive & Kicking Tour 2025 will visit arenas and amphitheaters across the continent beginning in May. They will be joined by special guests Soft Cell and Modern English.
Simple Minds have also announced a new remastered edition of Once Upon a Time which includes the hits “Alive and Kicking,” “Sanctify Yourself” and “All the Things She Said She Said,” and now also includes “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” from The Breakfast Club soundtrack. “Hindsight is a glorious thing!” says frontman Jim Kerr. “40 years on and it now feels right for Simple Minds to have ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ included in this classy new nine track edition of Once Upon A Time.” They’ll perform that song live on Jimmy Kimmel Live on January 29 and the new version of the album is streaming now.
Been a while but absence makes the heart grow fonder,” says Jim Kerr. “Simple Minds are ecstatic at the prospect of touring so extensively in the US and Canada this coming Spring.” The eagerly awaited tour coincides with the 40th anniversary of Simple Minds’ momentous 1985, a milestone year in their legendary career which saw them topping the world’s charts with their Billboard “Hot 100” #1 smash, “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” and RIAA Gold-certified seventh studio album Once Upon A Time, not to mention their unforgettable set in front of 135,000 fans – and a TV audience of millions – on the American leg of 1985’s Live Aid. Today sees the digital premiere of a special new 9-track edition of Once Upon A Time featuring the addition of “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” and updated Ruby Anniversary artwork. Physical versions and other anniversary reissues will follow later in the year. Simple Minds performed “Don’t You (Forget About Me)" on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Jones Beach Amphitheater, Bay Pkwy,Point Lookout, New York, United States
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