“In our first interview with NME we uttered the word ‘Genesis’ and I thought, ‘What did we say that for?!’” They tried to hide it at times, but Simple Minds had a heart of pure prog underneath the 80s arena rock
Proof that the genre mattered as much in Glasgow tower blocks as it did in English universities, Jim Kerr and co drew Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and Steve Hillage in with their “combination of rock, trance and this dark futuristic thing”