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.
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