“Simple Minds: Everything is Possible” tells the inspirational story of how a group of working-class kids growing up in post-industrial Glasgow dared to dream. Those kids became Simple Minds. Best known for their megahit ’80s anthem “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” — made famous in John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club — Simple Minds is one of the most iconic and influential Scottish bands in history.
At the very heart of Simple Minds dwells the ongoing friendship between Jim Kerr and his songwriting partner Charlie Burchill who met in the shadow of a brand-new Glasgow council tower block in 1967. Alongside a series of intimate interviews with Jim and Charlie, the film features contributions from Jimmy Iovine, Bob Geldof, Molly Ringwald, Bobby Gillespie, Dave Gahan, Irvine Welsh, Sharleen Spiteri, Richard Branson, Mariella Frostrup and many more.
“Simple Minds: Everything is Possible” is a music-inspired human-interest story imbued with social history, politics, and activism. It features unseen family and band archive as well as iconic footage from Live Aid and the Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute and is set to Simple Minds’ cinematic songbook of hits and rarities from Someone, Somewhere in Summertime and Don’t You Forget (About Me) to Belfast Child and Mandela Day.
This is the unlikely story of an extraordinary band that continues touring to this day.