SIMPLE MIND - DON'T YOU

DON’T YOU

SIMPLE MIND

SONGWRITERS: KEITH FORSEY & STEVE SCHIFF

COUNTRY: U. K.

WHERE: BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS 2015

ALBUM: DON’T YOU(FORGET ABOUT YOU)

LABEL: VIRGIN RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1985

"Don't You (Forget About Me)" is a 1985 pop song performed by Scottish rock band Simple Minds. The song is best known for being played during the opening and closing credits of the John Hughes film The Breakfast Club. It was written and composed by producer Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff, the latter of whom was a guitarist and songwriter from the Nina Hagen band.

Forsey asked Cy Curnin from The Fixx, Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol to record the song, but all three declined; Idol did later perform a cover of it on his 2001 compilation album Greatest Hits. Schiff then suggested Forsey ask Simple Minds who, after refusing as well, agreed under the encouragement of their label, A&M. According to frontman Jim Kerr, the band were reluctant to record the song as they felt they should only record their own material, relenting after persuasion from Kerr's wife at the time, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, and a phone call from Forsey in which he expressed his admiration for the band. According to one account, the band "rearranged and recorded 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' in three hours in a north London studio and promptly forgot about it."

Continuing the rock direction recently taken on Sparkle in the Rain but also glancing back at their melodic synthpop past, it caught the band at their commercial peak and, propelled by the success of The Breakfast Club, became a #1 hit in the U.S. and around the world. It is also the band's only #1 hit on the U.S. Top Rock Tracks chart, staying atop for three weeks. While only reaching #7 in the UK, it stayed on the charts from 1985 to 1987, one of the longest time spans for any single in the history of the chart.

The song did not appear on the band's subsequent álbum Once Upon a Time, but it did appear on the 1992 best-of Glittering Prize 81/92. It soon became a fixture of the band's live sets - with an extended audience participation section during its inclusion on the 2015 tour to promote the band's Big Music album.

(Hey, hey, hey, hey)

Won't you come see about me

I'll be alone dancing, you know it, baby

Tell me your troubles and doubts

Giving me everything inside and out

And love's strange: so real in the dark

Think of the tender things

That we were working on

Slow change may pull us apart

When the light gets into your heart, baby

Don't you forget about me

Don't, don't, don't, don't

Don't you forget about me

Will you stand above me

Look my way, never love me

Rain keeps falling

Rain keeps falling

Down, down, down

Will you recognize me

Call my name or walk on by

Rain keeps falling

Rain keeps falling

Down, down, down, down

(Hey, hey, hey, hey)

Don't you try and pretend

It's my beginning

We'll win in the end

I won't harm you

Or touch your defenses

Vanity, insecurity

Don't you forget about me

I'll be alone dancing, you know it, baby

Going to take you apart

I'll build us back together at heart, baby

Don't you forget about me

Don't, don't, don't, don't

Don't you forget about me

As you walk on by

Will you call my name

As you walk on by

Will you call my name

When you walk away

Oh, will you walk away

Will you walk away

Oh, call my name

Will you call my name.