Old music: Simple Minds – New Gold Dream

Before their pursuit of world domination turned them rubbish, Simple Minds were capable of transcendent beauty – as this 1982 track attestsThere's a whole PhD thesis to be written on when – and why – good bands turn crap. Perhaps someone's already written it. If so you can only hope Simple Minds' disastrous turnaround features prominently.That the band who slumped to the nadir of Belfast Child had, not so long before, been very good is well documented. Usually the evidence cited is Theme f...

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