Charlie Burchill

Live Aid was held on 13 July 1985, simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, and the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, United States. It was one of the largest scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: watched live by an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations. "It's twelve noon in London, seven AM in Philadelphia, and around the world it's time for Live Aid...!"

Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela. Highlight of the evening is the one hour live performance of Dire Straits feat. Eric Clapton.

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. From working-class kids growing up in post-industrial Glasgow to rock stars playing Live Aid, this is the unlikely story of an extraordinary band that continues touring to this day.

Seen The Lights was the first Simple Minds commercial DVD released, it's a set of 2 discs. The first disc contains 26 promo videos and some rare live performances. The second disc contains the Verona concert from 1989 and some older live performances.

On 27th November 2013 Simple Minds played a very special concert and filmed it at the brand new award-winning venue the SSE Hydro Glasgow, the first concert to be filmed there. To an enthusiastic home audience, the band delivers rousing versions of hit after hit after hit. 1. Intro 2. Waterfront 3. Broken Glass Park 4. I Travel 5. All The Things She Said 6. Promised You A Miracle 7. Glittering Prize 8. Theme For Great Cities 9. Mandela Day 10. Someone Somewhere In Summertime 11. The American 12. Love Song 13. See The Lights 14. Don’t You (Forget About Me) 15. New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84) 16. Big Music 17. Sanctify Yourself 18. Alive And Kicking.

The first ever Simple Minds commercially available video, released by Virgin Music Video! Entitled 'Verona', this 90 minute live music programme is set in the magnificent Roman amphitheatre in the ancient city of Verona, and captures the internationally best-selling rock band performing 14 songs which span their whole career. Filmed in September 1989 using a crew of 16 cameras, each aspect of the concert is covered, providing the viewer with an insight to the atmosphere created at the ultimate stadium concert.

a-ha and Simple Minds in Concert

Acoustic in Concert is the sixth live album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released in June 2017. On the eve of the Acoustic album release on 11 November 2016, Simple Minds took to the stage at London's Hackney Empire to perform a special show for the BBC's Radio 2 In Concert series. The show comprised acoustic versions of some of their greatest hits and best-loved tracks along with cover versions of some of the songs that shaped them. The Hackney Empire show was recorded and broadcast by the BBC in association with Eagle Vision to be released in its own right as Acoustic in Concert several months later (in June 2017) on CD, DVD and Blu-ray formats.

The Jonathan Ross Show is a British chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2011 and currently airs on Saturday evenings following the conclusion of Ross' BBC One chat show, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, in July 2010.