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The Breakfast Club
Claire gives one of her diamond earrings to Bender, and Allison takes Andrew’s athletic patch from his letter jacket as a token. They’re solidifying the bonds they’ve formed with each other, taking tokens and giving gifts because they want them to last.
Simple Minds
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
1999
John said that “you got everything and I got shit”; by giving him her earring she negates that accusation.
Lastly, Bender gave that triumphant fist pump because he had at last built the personal connection that he so surreptitiously wanted and desperately needed, a relationship that he was originally convinced could never happen.
Claire Standish is in detention for skipping school to go shopping. And finally, John Bender is in detention for pulling a fire alarm and fighting with the school’s teachers and students.
Michael Longoria
The song is effective here because of the plea that rests in the chorus, the title sung with an aching and longing confidence by lead singer Jim Kerr. It urges an eternal remembering that is distinctly high-school.
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.
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 “.
Maine North High School
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