You know, one of the best things about being in my 50's now is that I lived my teenage years in the 80's..........Priceless and I wouldn't change them for the world!
yes Sir, I would not mind to be an older guy, as long as I had lived through the 1950s and especially the 1980s. the 80s had the best music, fashion, movies, etc. I can only fantasize about being a young man in those golden years of music!
I was In Australia and 15 when I asked my mum for a Simple Minds tape (cassette), and I've been in love with them ever since. I'm now 59 years old. The driving bass line, the beautiful synth, the minimalist guitar, and finally the wonderful Jim Kerr's basso vocals with the slight Scottish accent coming through. Divine.
Really glad you discovered it my friend. Have you heard the extended edition with the different, more drawn out ending? I would also urge you to look into - if you haven't already - New Gold Dream 81 82 83 84. Their finest album hands down. Hunter and the Hunted is pure genius. Give it a few listens. Let it seep into your soul.
this and the next album are not only absolute masterpieces but among the most seminal of all time..or rather all modern music owes them a huge tribute, pop, electronic, new age..they traced the path which then was undertaken...
This was their first big hit in Australia, making the top 20 in 1981 (#17). A pity that commercial radio now only plays "Don't You (Forget About Me)", and has seemingly forgotten all their other hits (including "Promised You a Miracle", "Glittering Prize", etc.)
No it isn't, everyone WAY better than this has worse treatment. The list is endless: Kim Wilde, OMD, A-ha, Bangles, Kirsty MacColl, Bluebells, Aztec Camera, Cock Robin, Comsat Angels, Toyah, Big Country, Belouis Some, China Crisis, T'Pau, Shakespears Sister, Sheena Easton, Roxette, Crowded House, Deacon Blue, The Smiths, Talk Talk, Belouis Some-even Duran Duran's post-1984 even better tunes and the grand ABBA get treated like this, especially all the girls' solo stuff. Even bloody worse for acts like Sandra, Alphaville, 'Til Tuesday, Real Life and Information Society that weren't even give a proper crack at the Top 75! Simplistic Minds get bloody lucky in comparison and should be considered bloody lucky, when they're nowhere near as good as their rep lies. Big bad, sometimes absurdly sung interchangable stadium noise that often goes on too long. Simply put, 'Don't You Forget' is probably their best and it made them remembered for it in the US. Least they get that. Anyway, 'Promised You A Miracle' is a thick and twatty number, their worst 80s song ever, and way too often all heart radio's old crappy 80s night, where they never played 'Don't You Forget'. How funny is that? Not. Best forgotten is that horrible tune. Their most standout numbers for me are the quite few-'This Is Your Land' and 'See The Lights'. Even on good rowdy numbers like 'Alive And Kicking' & 'All The Things She Said', his pompous and bawdy and often none-too discernible singing-and often overdone, does these tunes no favours. There are better vocalists fronting bands out there in the 80s-he is weak compared with them.
Bro I live in Perth Australia and there is a radio station called Easy Hits Fm that plays the worst of '70s and 80s music and I'm forced to listen to it at work. No chance of hearing artistic gems like this and yes the only Simple minds track that gets played is Don't You Forget. The station sucks shit and even the news bulletins are bollocks.
Mate, this is just like the UK. They always play crap-even when it was in the 90s, unless you were an overrated, undeserving 80s artist (Sting, Phil Collins, Paul Weller, The Cure, Slagdonna-the worst-Michael Jackson) they never play your stuff anymore, and NEVER EVER any new stuff the artist has got out. US radio is even worse as those xenophobic tossers only care about their own crap, apart from the bullshit from the UK today, when we've nothing any more, like everywhere else. Says it all. Easy Hits FM-the title says it all. It's so 'easy' to play shit-and as every station for decades is only interested in the Top 10-and mostly, it IS full of shit as the best songs usually never make the Top 40-and some see no charting, or even release at all! Bet there's still many artists in my list who didn't even get one play where you are.
@@chipcity3016 More chart entries at heights than they deserved. Quality varied, and anyway, most 80s groups make U2 look and sound a joke, but while guitar-driven bands will never have the edge over synth-based ones or singers, Big Country and Crowded House outstrip them every time, and Duran, while not being solely guitar-based, certainly do. Anyone can have 'many hits' if they've a insane critically acclaimed following in the media; it's usually the people that only are allowed to get sparing hits that are better. Simple Minds still get treated way better on radio than most, along with Depeche Mode, Sting, Weller, Cure, Phil Collins, Slagdonna, Minogue, Tina Turner-all crap like that.
Same here, came across it today June 2nd 2024. Yesterday I bought a 4 disc CD ‘Now 80’s Alternative’ and one of the tracks on the discs that just blew me away was Simple Minds - The American. I came on You Tube to find a visual copy and I found this track, Love Song, at the same time. Two mind blowing tracks I’d ever heard before today.
En España esto fue mucho más que una excepcional canción. Está historia debería contarse en los colegios porque para una generación significó la unión de música, periodismo y deporte al nivel más elevado. Esto es cultura popular.
God love Jim Kerr, I jumped in the elevator at the Perth International Hotel back in the late 80's and probably blew his ear drums freaking out, but he still gave me his autograph!!! Thank you Jim!!! You're amazing!!
It was epic. I took lots of photos, collected fliers, posters, records etc... Because, I was in a club in Camden Town one night. Full of punks, goths, metal heads; you name it. I thought, I am going to miss all this one day
Simple Minds were classic back then better than U2 just a classic band with great songs "I travel" "Life in a day" "American" and the uber classic "Love song" 😎👍🤘.
I saw Simple Minds in princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh 2022 one of the best concert's I've ever been to and I've got tickets to see them in Glasgow march 2024 😁
can someone invite a time machine already so i can go back. These guys where awesome. Got to see them recently in Perth and i have been listening to them ever since. Jim if your reading this bring the band back to Perth 🙂
I remember hitting the dance floor when this track came on. fantastic memories, fancy footsteps. we were so cool and never even knew it. still get a natural high...
Probably the best song ever made. The lyrics are meaningless to perfection, a love song like no other. Whenever I need a jolt of energy for a planned run or similar, I play this song just under painfully loud - it usually works.
Se pensiamo a quei primi anni 80, questo pezzo è stato sicuramente uno dei migliori pezzi New Wave. Veramente un nuovo modo di esprimersi, sicuramente musica di avanguardia di altissima qualità.
Simple minds, legends for the last 40 years. Really enjoyed the music SimpleMinds did in the 80s. Love song, don't you forget about me, alive and kicking, new gold dream, Waterfront, all the things she said, to name a few.
My dog,,,,,,God I was stoned on hash, 18, sitting in my friends Fathers supermarket & this came on the store radio. Damn that tune gob smacked me good. Always reminds me of some real simple good times. Love the world Love the life I've been given
watching them here in Australia last month I could'nt help but marvel at the talent that allows a band to sell out all over the world so many decades later than this song was released.
God, I remember when I first heard this track and how it changed my life coming into the 80's. The moment I heard Love song I know it would be hit and so the rest is history. Thank you Simple Minds. Still love your music like it was yesterday.😊
Loved it back then, especially the 12 inch version. Still love it today, and just about everything else that came after. This was the amazing work that broke them in Australia. Great, great band.
The 12 inch version is the full version. And the best version. Love the way it finishes with the keyboards and bass as the drum stop rather than just fading out.
I'd take 4 decades to find this song again too
Internet training required my friend 😉
Stebulous!
I, too, am here from reddit.
You know, one of the best things about being in my 50's now is that I lived my teenage years in the 80's..........Priceless and I wouldn't change them for the world!
Exactly feel the same as I’m in my 52s!😊
The beginning of the 80's was a New Gold Dream
Totally agree it was a very fun time
Still a tuff song as I’m in 50’s and still love it, best to listen to this when your walking or jogging whether early or late at night 🇦🇺
yes Sir, I would not mind to be an older guy, as long as I had lived through the 1950s and especially the 1980s.
the 80s had the best music, fashion, movies, etc. I can only fantasize about being a young man in those golden years of music!
This is one of the most under-rated pop/disco/dance tracks of the 80-ties....💪🎸🎤👍
Agree
A sparkling and explosive exploit put them at the top...unfortunately they could not keep such a high profile. What do you think it’s about?
A great opener to a concert.
I concur
I travel is better
I was In Australia and 15 when I asked my mum for a Simple Minds tape (cassette), and I've been in love with them ever since. I'm now 59 years old. The driving bass line, the beautiful synth, the minimalist guitar, and finally the wonderful Jim Kerr's basso vocals with the slight Scottish accent coming through. Divine.
The 80’s were just the best times
No, the best were the 60s and 70s
They were all great eras. ❤❤❤
❤
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Guys, believe it or not, I just randomly clicked on this song this morning, and I’ve been playing it over and over all day, what a FANTASTIC song!!!!😍
Really glad you discovered it my friend. Have you heard the extended edition with the different, more drawn out ending? I would also urge you to look into - if you haven't already - New Gold Dream 81 82 83 84. Their finest album hands down. Hunter and the Hunted is pure genius. Give it a few listens. Let it seep into your soul.
This was the first song I ever heard with Simple Minds, so I was late to the party. (And jumped off when Forbes left/were ousted) They were amazing!
Great band! Search out more.
Guess what? I've just done exactly the same thing!? What a fantastic band they were,...
@@edwardchapman3309Still are.
Jim Kerr,s confidence, charisma and powerful voice,a great band made this one of the best bands of that era and they're still performing ❤
They are still one of the best bands in the world ❤😊
Nailed it, Charisma and Confidence
Visited pubs n clubs early 80's as a teen.Magical times
Their great period of creativity. 1980 to 1983. Stunning sound.
+Joseph Devlin have you heard Celebration album ? that's a good one
I know that compilation album but I love Sons & Fascination, Sister Feelings Call and New Gold Dream LPs.
I agree. Early 80s had such a feel behind the music
79-81!
So what happened after that. ?
Simple minds, one of the best groups from the 80’s , reminds me so much of that time and it’s heaven.
You took the words out of my mouth
Wow, this is a banging tune! Simple Minds we're unrivaled in the early 80's!
dont forget the late 70s dude
So glad to have had my teenage years in the 80s...best time ever...still remember them in concert...amazing music in the 80s
The bassline makes this song for me. It is incredibly simple, but so effective. Fun to play too!
Do you have tab for the bass line
So many of their songs were driven by Forbes' bass engine. 😌👌
Derek explains in on a TH-cam video, the fun fact is that someone in the comments who did not get who he was, tried to say he was not doing right….
@@flugsvenWaterfront
Love how the singer sounds like a cross between Bryan Ferry and Bono and comes out sounding better than both 😎
That'll be Jim Kerr Then...🤷♂️
He was a Brian Ferry fan
That's because he is better than both
Love life and laugher! With musical 🎼 🎶 perfection. Genius !
Still sounds fab in 2020 , having a dance In the garden with a bit of volume 😀👌
Dancing in kitchen as I Cook 😀
Go for it again-in the rain/brilliant whatever-I will be dancing also
Turn it up during lockdown
2022
Still awesome in 2024.
This was one of the greatest albums of all time.....an underappreciated masterpiece.
this and the next album are not only absolute masterpieces but among the most seminal of all time..or rather all modern music owes them a huge tribute, pop, electronic, new age..they traced the path which then was undertaken...
100%
They had some good songs go 80s
Absolutely unconditionally agree 😊
Bass lines in this song are absolutely savage! Their early tracks were the best ... Sweat in a bulllet - class bass riffs
80s rules I'd go back there anytime
Hide your wallet if you do. Terrible crime ridden time. Oh, and watch out for the serial killers. And good luck getting a job.
My God still sounds brilliant 2019
Very modern, they were ahead of their time
@@tamaragarrett3625 A pure definition of New Wave and Synth Wave sound. Simply the best music.💙💙
Bora BRASIL 🇧🇷
Is a big.teme of.techno pop thanks
My Friends of simple minds yuooo
😅😅 okey starts musicians i liked
Tu mouch
😅😅i enjoy this song long live for
The techno pop sometimes 80 yuaa
Just Brilliant..80-83 Simple Minds were something else.
Aye they were mate..👍
Still are something else brilliant bands
81,82,83,84.......
With sons and fascination and new gold dreams as their best albums
This was and still is the best track the minds ever wrote,just brilliant 👍🏻
This was their first big hit in Australia, making the top 20 in 1981 (#17). A pity that commercial radio now only plays "Don't You (Forget About Me)", and has seemingly forgotten all their other hits (including "Promised You a Miracle", "Glittering Prize", etc.)
No it isn't, everyone WAY better than this has worse treatment. The list is endless: Kim Wilde, OMD, A-ha, Bangles, Kirsty MacColl, Bluebells, Aztec Camera, Cock Robin, Comsat Angels, Toyah, Big Country, Belouis Some, China Crisis, T'Pau, Shakespears Sister, Sheena Easton, Roxette, Crowded House, Deacon Blue, The Smiths, Talk Talk, Belouis Some-even Duran Duran's post-1984 even better tunes and the grand ABBA get treated like this, especially all the girls' solo stuff. Even bloody worse for acts like Sandra, Alphaville, 'Til Tuesday, Real Life and Information Society that weren't even give a proper crack at the Top 75! Simplistic Minds get bloody lucky in comparison and should be considered bloody lucky, when they're nowhere near as good as their rep lies. Big bad, sometimes absurdly sung interchangable stadium noise that often goes on too long. Simply put, 'Don't You Forget' is probably their best and it made them remembered for it in the US. Least they get that. Anyway, 'Promised You A Miracle' is a thick and twatty number, their worst 80s song ever, and way too often all heart radio's old crappy 80s night, where they never played 'Don't You Forget'. How funny is that? Not. Best forgotten is that horrible tune. Their most standout numbers for me are the quite few-'This Is Your Land' and 'See The Lights'. Even on good rowdy numbers like 'Alive And Kicking' & 'All The Things She Said', his pompous and bawdy and often none-too discernible singing-and often overdone, does these tunes no favours. There are better vocalists fronting bands out there in the 80s-he is weak compared with them.
Bro I live in Perth Australia and there is a radio station called Easy Hits Fm that plays the worst of '70s and 80s music and I'm forced to listen to it at work. No chance of hearing artistic gems like this and yes the only Simple minds track that gets played is Don't You Forget. The station sucks shit and even the news bulletins are bollocks.
Mate, this is just like the UK. They always play crap-even when it was in the 90s, unless you were an overrated, undeserving 80s artist (Sting, Phil Collins, Paul Weller, The Cure, Slagdonna-the worst-Michael Jackson) they never play your stuff anymore, and NEVER EVER any new stuff the artist has got out. US radio is even worse as those xenophobic tossers only care about their own crap, apart from the bullshit from the UK today, when we've nothing any more, like everywhere else. Says it all.
Easy Hits FM-the title says it all. It's so 'easy' to play shit-and as every station for decades is only interested in the Top 10-and mostly, it IS full of shit as the best songs usually never make the Top 40-and some see no charting, or even release at all! Bet there's still many artists in my list who didn't even get one play where you are.
Damn straight so many hits. Make U2 look like a joke. These guys were freaks
@@chipcity3016 More chart entries at heights than they deserved. Quality varied, and anyway, most 80s groups make U2 look and sound a joke, but while guitar-driven bands will never have the edge over synth-based ones or singers, Big Country and Crowded House outstrip them every time, and Duran, while not being solely guitar-based, certainly do. Anyone can have 'many hits' if they've a insane critically acclaimed following in the media; it's usually the people that only are allowed to get sparing hits that are better. Simple Minds still get treated way better on radio than most, along with Depeche Mode, Sting, Weller, Cure, Phil Collins, Slagdonna, Minogue, Tina Turner-all crap like that.
Simple Minds was not just a band, They where a MEGA band.
They don't make bands like this anymore.
🙏
Have you seen them live?
@@fryim06 Unfortunately I have not.
@@fryim06 luckily for me a number of times , supposed to have seen them again but the pandemic stopped it.
@@fryim06 YES IN JULY 1986
I love the beat and energy of this song. 80"s music is AWESOME
Unbeliveable for almost 40 year old song.Still very much alive and kicking.Can't stop listening.Learn from them music people
Simple Minds at their most exciting and interesting. Sons and Fascination is still one of my favourite albums ever.
definitely. it has a real edge
Have it on lp
Like someone already texted , 1980 - 1983 was their best period . After the album New Gold Dream it all became less interesting.
Play it loud and see how good it sounds! Classic!
Add 4 to 6 beers as well, and it's even better!
Spine tingling intro, the Minds at their best time, great era for Scottish music
I am 56 and thought I knew every 80s nugget. I heard this today for very first time and I’m obsessed!!!! Radio NEEDS THIS TODAY!!
Same. I mean, the big songs of S.M. I know very well. This little little ditty I had never heard and I love it.
Same here, came across it today June 2nd 2024. Yesterday I bought a 4 disc CD ‘Now 80’s Alternative’ and one of the tracks on the discs that just blew me away was Simple Minds - The American. I came on You Tube to find a visual copy and I found this track, Love Song, at the same time. Two mind blowing tracks I’d ever heard before today.
Buenas noches y saludos cordiales 😉
En España esto fue mucho más que una excepcional canción. Está historia debería contarse en los colegios porque para una generación significó la unión de música, periodismo y deporte al nivel más elevado. Esto es cultura popular.
José María García forever!!!!!!!
Love Song, one of the best floor fillers off all time.
Still an amazing song in 2021….. that is 40 years…..holy shit.
Great song,timeless!
God love Jim Kerr, I jumped in the elevator at the Perth International Hotel back in the late 80's and probably blew his ear drums freaking out, but he still gave me his autograph!!! Thank you Jim!!! You're amazing!!
The best thing about the 80's is that time proved their music right. In truth it was very very good and eternal. It sounds very fresh and cool
Sex Drug Baby Bomers JESUS on BACK burner ! Look where Repentance Can Redeem?
Who else thinks this was a better time ?
Absolutely!
Everyone used to smoke in pubs and there was no internet. And I remember paying twelve quid for jeans and thinking that was cheap!
Everyone. On the planet.
Pete Raymond no internet. Total focus. I saw them in Aberdeen 81 I think. I was 14
It was epic. I took lots of photos, collected fliers, posters, records etc...
Because, I was in a club in Camden Town one night. Full of punks, goths, metal heads;
you name it. I thought, I am going to miss all this one day
He has a really great voice. So individual and so musical.
Ah Stebulous. Makes sense.
Simple Minds were classic back then better than U2 just a classic band with great songs "I travel" "Life in a day" "American" and the uber classic "Love song" 😎👍🤘.
Simple Minds really WERE perfect in EVRY WAY. They were KINGS in the Early 80s, stunning
One of the best voices ever heard in my life . . !
Classic thats why 2024 and still strong. Only the toughest survive the test of time in music..🙏🥁✌️🏴☠️🇦🇺
Best Era ever...We were very fortunate to experience it.
Timeless classic. They transcend every decade.
My fav Simple Minds song. A touch of class right here.
I saw Simple Minds in princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh 2022 one of the best concert's I've ever been to and I've got tickets to see them in Glasgow march 2024 😁
can someone invite a time machine already so i can go back. These guys where awesome. Got to see them recently in Perth and i have been listening to them ever since. Jim if your reading this bring the band back to Perth 🙂
The early 80’s at it’s very best! What ever you do,play it LOUD!!!
Remember dancing like that the twins 8n the video until rave came along in the 90s no it all head banging shite I'll always love the 80s x
Oh to go back to those wonderful, simpler times.
This is an amazing dance track. I love early Simple Minds music and this is one of the best examples from the early 80s period.
Did you like Chelsea girl, life in a day? Epic all time greatness 😃
It's a magnificent song - the bass line the star (as was often the case with Forbes) in a very starry show.
Aye, they were never the same after Forbes left the band.
DF is my new bass crush. Love his groove!
Forbes and MacNeil gave the band their signature sound, IMHO.
In most cases always with Derek playing
We used to go crazy on the dance floor when this came on. young and life tasted great this takes me back .. still makes me feel alive .
Hadn't listened to this album for years. Now playing constantly in the car. A cracking track and album. Simple Minds are an amazing band
I remember hitting the dance floor when this track came on. fantastic memories, fancy footsteps. we were so cool and never even knew it. still get a natural high...
YES...I would hit that floor and blow everyone away!
Ohhh we knew it alright, just didn’t flaunt it.....
Didn’t need to back then 😉
This was and still is a great tune
One of the greatest 80's songs
Used to go and see them in the Mars Bar in Glasgow when they were called Johnny And The Self Abusers back in 1977.
Probably the best song ever made. The lyrics are meaningless to perfection, a love song like no other. Whenever I need a jolt of energy for a planned run or similar, I play this song just under painfully loud - it usually works.
One of the best video releases of this song from these legends. Turn it up and play it loud .
Se pensiamo a quei primi anni 80, questo pezzo è stato sicuramente uno dei migliori pezzi New Wave. Veramente un nuovo modo di esprimersi, sicuramente musica di avanguardia di altissima qualità.
Forget just how danceable a lot of early Minds tracks were.
This is one of their later songs, not early.
Late by what measure? It's 1981 pre New Gold Dream from Sons and Fascination when they wouldn't be considered big anywhere outside of Scotland.
I wasn't aware this was an earlier song. I clearly remember this single hitting the UK charts in 1992. Thanks for the info, Tom.
Todos los días la pongo
Actually, you're not wrong. They edited it a bit and re-released this particular song in '92. It was indeed in the UK charts at that time.
❤ ohh the 80s glad i was there ❤❤ liverpool the state nite club Thursdays ❤❤❤❤ back in those 80s ❤
"And several perilous miles later ... we reached Cornwall" Top Gear and this song :)
Simple minds, legends for the last 40 years. Really enjoyed the music SimpleMinds did in the 80s. Love song, don't you forget about me, alive and kicking, new gold dream, Waterfront, all the things she said, to name a few.
So privileged to have saw them when they first started out!! Glasgow was rocking in the 80s, Great Track to dance to
Is there any better than this era ?? X
Amazing tune from an amazing band. Way ahead of the times, these tunes still stand the test of time 40 years later. 🎼🎸🎹🎤😁
Going to see them tonight in Melbourne Australia! I've been a fan since the 1980's
My dog,,,,,,God I was stoned on hash, 18, sitting in my friends Fathers supermarket & this came on the store radio. Damn that tune gob smacked me good. Always reminds me of some real simple good times. Love the world Love the life I've been given
watching them here in Australia last month I could'nt help but marvel at the talent that allows a band to sell out all over the world so many decades later than this song was released.
One Of The Best New Wave Songs From The 1980s. 🙌
Sheer perfection from Glasgow! This band make real music ....!
C' si bon sur l'âme , Simple Minds. Jim Kerr vient d'une autre dimension,pour apporter de telles vibrations musicales.
1981 was a landmark year in music
Cool as!
Simple Minds waren immer Klasse. Mehr Worte braucht es nicht unbedingt. Ach doch - meine Vinyls gehen mit mir.
Genau!
glory days that come and go.
Hard, driving, cool - sounds as good as anything now
Stephen Campbell much better than anything now
Their still together and preforming, better than most acts out there. Simple Minds have and always will be great
Music these days pales in comparison to the 80s
37 years after I saw them live in Melbourne, Australia, and I still fricking love them!!
They where just way ahead of their times! This song still sounds like it just came out today! 👋🥰👉❤love simple minds!
Masterpiece
Forgot how good looking Jim Kerr was back in the day. Love Song still hitting the spot in 2020.
One of the decades great tracks from one of the great bands.
I bought this album 9 times kept playing it so much on cassette then on Cd that i kept breaking it!!!
Great times to this !!!
best Simple Minds song!
agree😘
+Kishanna Conan Doyle I agree too...
YESSSSSSSSSSS
Nooooooo!
Yes my favourite SM song.
Dunno why, but the woman in the elevator cracks me up everytime I watch.
Cracking bassline !!
Saw them for the first time ever in Coventry last night.
BRILLIANT.
Thank you Jim and Charlie 👍
Symbol song by Simple Minds 👏👏👏
I love this simple minds 1980-1985
God, I remember when I first heard this track and how it changed my life coming into the 80's. The moment I heard Love song I know it would be hit and so the rest is history. Thank you Simple Minds. Still love your music like it was yesterday.😊
Yes it is Derek Forbes. Simple Minds made music in the 1980's that no band now or then will ever come close to replicating. Brilliant!
An all time fav dance track, way too short ..that P bass tone & line, man, could go on forever..
Loved it back then, especially the 12 inch version. Still love it today, and just about everything else that came after. This was the amazing work that broke them in Australia. Great, great band.
The 12 inch version is the full version. And the best version. Love the way it finishes with the keyboards and bass as the drum stop rather than just fading out.
I rememer the sorrow when the single ”don’t you forget about me’ was released…The spell was over.
Totally original and unique. This can only be Simple Minds.....
@1:50 "America's a boyfriend, untouched by facial hair"