New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) - Simple Minds

Summer 1982 saw the band better known as Simple Minds release an album that, it is said, they have not been able to match since. ‘New Gold Dream’ was to be the strengthening album in which the band finally found their unique brand of collaborating synthesisers with more synthesizers and extending Jim Kerr’s haunting vocals to generate a sound that marked an era in which early new romantic eighties music became an historical event. Simple Minds’ beginnings where not unlike any other band of that time, although it is surprising to find that they have been around longer than you think. Formed in 1978 in down trodden Glasgow, their roots had been unmistakably ...