{"name":"Simple Minds","title":"Simple Minds","id":3536,"slug":"simple-minds","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/3536/?format=json","bio_short":"Simple Minds is a Scottish rock band which achieved its greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band, from the South Side of Glasgow, produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s. Simple Minds has secured a string of successful hit singles, the best known being their #1 worldwide hit single "Don't You (Forget About Me)", from the soundtrack of the John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club and #3 worldwide hit single "Alive and Kicking". The band has sold more than 40 million albums since 1979. ","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/SimpleMinds1981P.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[{"id":29032,"title":"Alive And Kicking","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/alive-and-kicking/"},{"id":3612,"title":"Don't You Forget About Me","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/dont-you-forget-about-me/"}]}