Breakfast, lunch, dinner and restaurants
Simple Minds’s international hit ” Don’t You (Forget About Me )” is played in the opening and closing credits.
Simple Minds
Recording history The song was written and composed by producer Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff while scoring The Breakfast Club . Both were Simple Minds fans and wrote the song with the band in mind.
The Breakfast Club
The film’s title comes from the nickname invented by students and staff, for detention, at New Trier High School, the school attended by the son of one of John Hughes’ friends. Thus, those who were sent to detention were designated members of “The Breakfast Club “.
The Breakfast Club
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Simple Minds
The Breakfast Club
Michael Longoria
Like a really, really ugly looking cockroach no one wants to go near, this song was rejected by no less than three people including Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol . No matter, Simple Minds finally went and recorded it for the soundtrack of The Breakfast Club and it rushed to the top of the Billboard charts.
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Keith Forsey Steve Schiff
The nucleus of Simple Minds consists of the two remaining original members, Jim Kerr (vocals) and Charlie Burchill (electric & acoustic guitars, occasional keyboards after 1990, saxophone and violin).