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Yahoo
19 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Simple Minds on 40 Years of ‘Don't You (Forget About Me)' & Their Friendship, Despite the Occasional ‘Screaming Match'
Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill have been playing music together for some 48 years, most of them in Simple Minds. Kerr assures us that familiarity has bred fondness; he even says the 'parallel story' in the band's 2023 documentary Everything Is Possible is 'the friendship of Charlie and I, which is quite remarkable because usually in long-working relationships in music people hate each other after 20 years. But Charlie and I still go on. There's a great friendship there.' Despite that, Kerr tells Billboard that it's not always a lovefest between frontman and guitarist, either, as Simple Minds is in the midst of its first full-scale North American tour in seven years. 'We're still able to have our rows and our fights. We're not always on the same page,' Kerr acknowledges, adding with a laugh that, 'We had a screaming match last week and everyone around us…. First of all they said, 'I've never heard such a f–kin' intense screaming match,' so afterwards Charlie and I felt embarrassed. Y'know, usually it's not even (about) a thing. You're not on the same page, and it's frustrating. Someone will just say the wrong word, and it triggers. More from Billboard Rachel Zegler Serenades Crowd Outside Theater for Free in a New London Production of 'Evita' Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis to Receive Vanguard Award at The Guitar Center Music Foundation Gala & Benefit Concert Shakira Announces Two More Dates in Mexico, Extending Record to 28 'But here's the good news; at the end of the day there's no scars, no wounds. We get up the next day and everything is fine. How amazing that we're still so passionate about it. How amazing that we still care. How amazing we're in the rehearsal room, trying to make it as great as it can be for our audience, and how amazing the next day we go to breakfast with each other.' During its current trek, whose U.S. leg wraps up Saturday (June 22 in Noblesville, Ind.), Kerr, Churchill and the latest incarnation of Simple Minds have been supporting their new concert album — Live in the City of Diamonds, which came out in April — and the 40th anniversary of an eventful 1985 that included: the Billboard Hot 100-topping single 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' from the hit film The Breakfast Club; a performance at Live Aid that summer; and the band's best-selling studio album, Once Upon a Time, which came out that fall. 'It was beautiful,' Kerr recalls. 'It was so unexpected in a sense. You had the movie, you had the song, Live Aid, MTV, 'Alive & Kicking' [a No. 3 Hot 100 hit], the Once Upon a Time album itself…and lo and behold, 40 years later we're still here talking about it. That's what 1985 felt like to us.' Simple Minds was famously ambivalent about recording 'Don't You (Forget About Me),' which was written by producer Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff for the John Hughes-directed film. The group had already planned to make an aggressive assault on the U.S. market in the wake of its 1984 album Sparkle in the Rain and was confident 'we had songs up our sleeve' for what would become Once Upon a Time. 'Then out of nowhere these phone calls start to come in about this movie, and the record company thinks it would be a good thing to bridge to the next album,' Kerr recalls. 'We were like, 'Yeah, we want to do it,' then 'Oh, hang on a minute. They want us to record someone else's song? That's not what we do; we're credible artists. We write our own songs, and we've got some good ones in the pipeline, so we're not sure about that.' But after meeting the people involved we decided to do it.' The key, Kerr adds, was that his band found a way to make the song its own. 'I'm not taking anything away from the song and Keith and the guys who came up with the music. You can find the demo of the song online; it's a good little song. But Simple Minds, what we brought to it was 10 years of playing live, and we put our heart and soul into it and we put our lifeblood into the record. It would've been a different song if OMD did it, or the Psychedelic Furs — it would've been a different record, rather. So it's not our song, but it is our record.' Simple Minds will follow the North American tour with a jaunt through Europe, starting June 27 at home in Glasgow, where the band plans to play Once Upon a Time in its entirety. That trek wraps up July 27 in Italy, after which Simple Minds plans to return to working on a new studio album — the follow-up to 2022's Direction of the Heart — which Kerr, Burchill and company began working on before hitting the road. 'We've got a whole bunch of songs up our sleeves,' Kerr says. 'They're not finished yet, but the backing tracks are down, the rough mixes. So we're excited. People might say, 'What's the impetus?' because obviously records don't sell like they used to and there's a limited appeal for new stuff no matter whether you're Bruce Springsteen or whoever you are. But this is who we are. This is what we do. It just goes on. It's all about creativity and you have it in you and you've got to get it out. That's the same now as it's ever been, and for us every time you do something new you're still using those muscles. It's like a chapter to a book; it seems to refresh the rest of the story and stops you from calcifying.' Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Yahoo
06-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Is Grey's Anatomy's Baby-Faced New OB Just What the Doctor Ordered?
I might have written off Grey's Anatomy's Scott Marcus as a one-and-done guest doctor if he had only appeared in March 6's midseason premiere. But the baby-faced OB/GYN resident was back in action in April 3's 'Don't You (Forget About Me).' Are you thinking what I am? Yeah, I have a hunch that the long-running — and just-renewed — medical drama is taking the newbie out for a test drive to see how viewers respond. So it begs the question: What do we make of him? Colleague Jo, we're well aware, can barely stand to look at 'his overachieving stupid progeny face.' More from TVLine March Madness 2025: How to Watch UConn vs. South Carolina in Women's National Championship Grey's Recap: Teddy and Cass Are Hot to Go... to Oakland - Plus, Did Molly Regain Her Memories or Lose Her Life? Doctor Odyssey: DILF Down! Did [Spoiler] Survive His Medical Emergency? I get it — Marcus can be a lot. And not necessarily a lot of anything you want. He calls surgeries 'surges' (ugh), 'sharked' a procedure from Jo to keep the mom-to-be from having to be on her feet for an extended period and, upon learning that the father of her twins was fellow M.D. Link, responded, 'Oooh, hospital babies. Are you gonna name 'em Grey and Sloan?' 'Read the room,' I wanted to say. 'Or better yet, leave it.' But there may be more to Marcus than meets the eye. He does seem to know his stuff. (He helped safeguard Jo and Link's babies as well as the expectant mother herself following the fall finale's shooting and its aftermath.) And when Wilson scolded Doogie Howser 2.0 over poaching her procedure — 'I can advocate for myself' — he explained that he'd just been trying to help and apologized. Didn't even balk when she criticized his term for surgeries. Not audibly, anyway. Grey's Anatomy's Most Memorable Moments View List So what's your take on the character played by Igby Rigney (Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher)? Are you curious enough to want to know more, or do you already know more than you want to? Vote in the poll above, then sound off in the comments below. Best of TVLine Weirdest TV Crossovers: Always Sunny Meets Abbott, Family Guy vs. Simpsons, Nine-Nine Recruits New Girl and More ER Turns 30: See the Original County General Crew, Then and Now The Best Streaming Services in 2024: Disney+, Hulu, Max and More
Forbes
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Grey's Anatomy' Star Kim Raver On Directing Big Teddy-Cass Scene
Sophia Bush and Kim Raver in the "Grey's Anatomy" episode "Don't You (Forget About Me)." Grey's Anatomy featured a big character development for Kim Raver and Sophia Bush's characters Dr. Teddy Altman and Dr. Cass Beckman on Thursday night and Raver is thrilled that she was able to take on roles in front of and behind the camera to direct it. The episode, titled Don't You (Forget About Me) gave the acclaimed actor her second opportunity to step behind the camera for creator Shonda Rhimes' classic ABC medical drama after she was at the helm of episode Training Day in Season 19 in 2023. Note: Spoilers from Don't You (Forget About Me) are discussed throughout the rest of the article. Among the major developments in Thursday night's episode of Grey's Anatomy is Teddy acting on mutual feeling for Cass after the two kiss in the March 20 episode I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. While Cass is in an open marriage, Teddy's marriage to Dr. Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) is on the rocks, which factors into why the chief of surgery at the Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital decides to tell Cass that she's figured out that she wants to take a shot at a romantic relationship after the two cross paths at a medical conference in Oakland. 'It's a very interesting topic that we are breaching with open marriage. It's something that people are going to argue about that is conflicting for many people,' Ravers said in a Zoom conversation on Wednesday. 'People have fans and people are going to have a lot of emotions and reactions towards it one way or another, but that's what Grey's Anatomy does," Raver added. "It brings in topics to have conversations about and those arguments of who's right and who's wrong and who's ruining your relationship or not ruining your relationship, or expanding on a relationship that's right for one person that isn't right for another person.' Raver said when Grey's Anatomy showrunner Meg Marinis brought the idea for the episode to her and McKidd, both of them took the major development in the story of their flailing marriage very seriously and approached it with the utmost care. 'Meg did an incredible job when the idea [of an open marriage] was first brought to Kevin and I,' Raver recalled. 'We are very protective of our characters' relationship that we've built over so many years between Teddy and Owen. Meg really listened and we discussed what would be the most interesting way and adult way to broach a marriage that is not doing well and what would that mean to our characters and what that would look like.' Sophia Bush and Kim Raver in the "Grey's Anatomy" episode "Don't You (Forget About Me)." Teddy and Cass' mutual attraction for each other involves much more than a kiss on Grey's Anatomy on Thursday night, which meant Kim Raver would have a tall order in directing herself and Sophia Bush in a love scene. While filming a love scene is a daunting task for any actor, the fact that Raver was calling her own shots in Don't You (Forget About Me) made the idea of Teddy's intense scene with Cass much less intimidating. Kim Raver on the set of the "Grey's Anatomy episode "Don't You (Forget About Me)." 'I felt every single person in our crew wanted the best for me and were so supportive of me,' Raver explained. 'I actually felt much more comfortable in the scene because I knew that I would be the one choosing the shots. Creating the painting of a love scene can sometimes feel very uncomfortable because you don't [what you'll] feel like or what it will look like. [But directing] it allowed me to really try different things and feel comfortable in it.' While Teddy and Cass' love scene is intense, it comes to an abrupt halt before it goes even further because Teddy has a crisis of conscience. Teddy thought she had things figured out and she doesn't so she opts to back out of things [with Cass] because of it,' Raver said. 'She realizes that it's not going to fix her marriage and I kind of loved that. I love that you know she's trying to find the path and that [being with Cass] was not the path.' However, in another major development in Don't You (Forget About Me), Owen's approach to his and Teddy's crumbling marriage takes a different path when he is reunited with an old friend, Nora (Floriana Lima). The episode ends with Owen in bed with Nora — and Raver knows it's going to spark a big reaction with the Grey's Anatomy fan base. 'People are going to be throwing their popcorn at the television going, 'What? Are you kidding me?'' Raver said with a smile. While Raver's Grey's Anatomy episode Don't You (Forget About Me) aired on ABC Thursday night, it is now available to stream on Hulu.
