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Simple Minds: Shine On

Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2007

"THAT SONG lives on its own planet!" laughed Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr in a Glaswegian brogue undiminished by a Sicilian residency. "I heard it the other day on the radio and it burst through like it was recorded yesterday. I don't know why that is – there's just certain songs that last and transcend generations."

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