Jim Kerr (of Simple Minds)

Jim Kerr (of Simple Minds)

Jim Kerr is a co-founder, singer and songwriter for the Scottish rock band Simple Minds. Known best for the track "Don't You Forget About Me," which propelled from the film The Breakfast Club to No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 1985. The band followed that with more Hot 100 success from the 1985 album, Once Upon a Time: "Alive and Kicking" (No. 3), "Sanctify Yourself" (No. 14) and "All The Things She Said" (No. 28). Simple Minds' latest album, Direction of the Heart, released on October 21, 2022, is a wonderful collection that showcases the band's time-tested ability to write and perform compelling, emotional rock music. It includes a song written in the band's early days but never released, "Act of Love," and a cover of the 1983 single by The Call, "The Walls Came Down." Links: Simple Minds website Simple Minds tour history at Setlist.fm Billboard podcasts page Jay Gilbert at Label Logic Glenn Peoples at Billboard Glenn Peoples @ Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd talks upcoming tour, the state of blues music and more.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd talks upcoming tour, the state of blues music and more.

Guitar legend Kenny Wayne Shepherd's debut album Ledbetter Heights turned 30 years old, and Shepherd's “Ledbetter Heights 30th Anniversary Tour” will launch February 19th, 2026 in Dallas, TX. Shepher...

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Lady A talks about new Christmas album, holiday tour and what comes next.

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Babymetal talks about their Nov. 1 show at Intuit Dome in Los Angeles

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Bob Dylan historian Sean Wilentz on Dylan's evolution from imitator to interpreter

Rejoince, fans of Bob Dylan. Here's a lengthy, fascinating conversation about Dylan's formative time in New York City in the early '60s. Billboard's Behind the Setlist is joined by Sean Wilentz, a Bob...

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Rebroadcast: Kim Thayil of Soundgarden on the band's final concert in 2017

Rebroadcast: Kim Thayil of Soundgarden on the band's final concert in 2017

Our February 2023 conversation with Kim Thayil, the guitarist for rock band Soundgarden, was one of our favorites in over three years of doing the Behind the Setlist podcast. So here's an encore prese...

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Peter Wolf on the J. Geils Band's Touring, Hanging with Van Morrison and Dylan, and Seeing Spinal Tap

Peter Wolf is a man with a million stories to tell. Thankfully he put many of them in his memoir, Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses, released in March 2025 on Litt...

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Brett James - Rebroadcast of May 2022 interview with the late country songwriter

Brett James - Rebroadcast of May 2022 interview with the late country songwriter

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