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Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

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, the most iconic and influential Scottish band in history.

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Joss Crowley

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documentary, music

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Greenwich Entertainment

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So, when we turned up
to do our first-ever gig, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

So, when we turned up to do our first-ever gig,

And when we played,
as crap as we were, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

And when we played, as crap as we were,

"This could be great,
this playing live malarkey." - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

"This could be great, this playing live malarkey."

"this sort of sixth-form satire - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

"this sort of sixth-form satire

Charlie said, "Look, I think
we should get Joe to join the band," - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Charlie said, "Look, I think we should get Joe to join ...

She said,
"He's got this really weird thing, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

She said, "He's got this really weird thing,

"We don't even need to meet.
He's in." And he was. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

"We don't even need to meet. He's in." A...

The interesting thing
about Mick MacNeil - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

The interesting thing about Mick MacNeil

And the combination
with him and Charlie - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

And the combination with him and Charlie

Absolutely unique
to bring such a Scottishness - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Absolutely unique to bring such a Scottishness

CHARLIE PLAYS NOTES - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

CHARLIE PLAYS NOTES

With having keyboards
and stuff like that, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

With having keyboards and stuff like that,

And it was really
Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

And it was really Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder

There was a band called the Subs, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

There was a band called the Subs,

And we didn't think much
of the band, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

And we didn't think much of the band,

ELECTRIC BASS PLAYS - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

ELECTRIC BASS PLAYS

I think it was
our first-ever interview, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

I think it was our first-ever interview,

We were 18, young kids. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

We were 18, young kids.

"What do you want to get
out of this?" - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

"What do you want to get out of this?"

"We want to break ourselves
nationally, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

"We want to break ourselves nationally,

ELECTRIC GUITAR
REVERBERATES - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

ELECTRIC GUITAR REVERBERATES

JOE DONNELLY: Those Sunday nights
at the Mars Bar were really special, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

JOE DONNELLY: Those Sunday nights at the Mars Bar were reall...

Within a matter of weeks, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Within a matter of weeks,

These guys from Toryglen,
they formed this band, you know, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

These guys from Toryglen, they formed this band, you know,

It was kind of abstract,
interesting music, you know. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

It was kind of abstract, interesting music, you know.

He did used to throw up
before he'd go on stage and stuff - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

He did used to throw up before he'd go on stage and stu...

There was something about
the way they presented everything - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

There was something about the way they presented everything

I remember Jim Kerr had a kind of
funny bowl haircut, like a monk. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

I remember Jim Kerr had a kind of funny bowl haircut, like a...

Suit jacket on, shirt, bum freezer,
you know, Mod. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Suit jacket on, shirt, bum freezer, you know, Mod.

Like, really sexy
and kind of like, you know, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Like, really sexy and kind of like, you know,

I guess we were sort of trying
to invent our own world - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

I guess we were sort of trying to invent our own world

Yeah. Art rock. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Yeah. Art rock.

I remember the first meeting
with Simple Minds vividly, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

I remember the first meeting with Simple Minds vividly,

And I'd started a little label,
you know, a couple of years earlier, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

And I'd started a little label, you know, a couple of y...

When I put this on, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

When I put this on,

SONG: 'Sad Affair' - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

SONG: 'Sad Affair'

We took our tapes
through to Bruce Findlay - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

We took our tapes through to Bruce Findlay

GUITAR RIFFS - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Our producer, the great John Leckie,
I think he thought, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Our producer, the great John Leckie, I think he thought,

Yeah, we'd have been looking around - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Yeah, we'd have been looking around

It was like,
"What are we doing here?" - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

It was like, "What are we doing here?"

Secondly, you know, you're walking
into such a hallowed space, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Secondly, you know, you're walking into such a hallowed...

JOHN LECKIE: With Simple Minds, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

JOHN LECKIE: With Simple Minds,

And if someone
really liked something, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

And if someone really liked something,

# Life in a day. # - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

# Life in a day. #

You know, before Simple Minds,
really, you know. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

You know, before Simple Minds, really, you know.

I thought, compared to the demos... - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

I thought, compared to the demos...

# And now the sound of time
Is passing fast - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

# And now the sound of time Is passing fast

We kind of knew
that that wasn't our sound, really. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

We kind of knew that that wasn't our sound, really.

# Now is it true they're calling you
the Chelsea Girl? # - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

# Now is it true they're calling you the Chelsea Girl? ...

"Oh, no, this... We've blown it." - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

"Oh, no, this... We've blown it."

Called Bruce, you know, and he said, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Called Bruce, you know, and he said,

"We have to scrap the whole thing
and start again." - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

"We have to scrap the whole thing and start again."...

But it got... It did the job.
It got us to where we wanted to be. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

But it got... It did the job. It got us to where we wanted t...

It was a surprise
that literally six months later - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

It was a surprise that literally six months later

Songs and music are as mysterious
to us now as it was way back then. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Songs and music are as mysterious to us now as it was way ba...

And there's a quote that kind of
sums that up in this little book. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

And there's a quote that kind of sums that up in this l...

"One performance at a time.
One gig at a time. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

"One performance at a time. One gig at a time.

"One verse at a time.
One dream at a time. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

"One verse at a time. One dream at a time.

"Doing the work." - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

"Doing the work."

JOHN LECKIE: We went in
with a blank piece of paper. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

JOHN LECKIE: We went in with a blank piece of paper.

We dropped all the idea
of being commercial and hit singles. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

We dropped all the idea of being commercial and hit singles.

We can go off on any tangent - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

We can go off on any tangent

# Won't conform, hero who dies
Find a boy... # - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

# Won't conform, hero who dies Find a boy... #

We were working with -
it sounded flash - - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

We were working with - it sounded flash -

They were gonna send over
a driver and a tape op, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

They were gonna send over a driver and a tape op,

We usually had a young buck,
always a guy, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

We usually had a young buck, always a guy,

..and this little...
goddess gets out. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

..and this little... goddess gets out.

And we're like,
"Where's the tape op?" - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

And we're like, "Where's the tape op?"

I couldn't remember
if he was the engineer, as well, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

I couldn't remember if he was the engineer, as well,

And I was Mariella Sometimes, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

And I was Mariella Sometimes,

Although she was younger than us, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Although she was younger than us,

We all had instant crushes on her.
She was having none of it. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

We all had instant crushes on her. She was having none of it...

Yeah, look at those eyes.
You don't mess with Jim Kerr. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Yeah, look at those eyes. You don't mess with Jim Kerr.

The leap from the first
pop, shiny, new-wave record - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

The leap from the first pop, shiny, new-wave record

These guys don't give a fuck.
That is defiant music. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

These guys don't give a fuck. That is defiant music.

They're not trying
to make a commercial song - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

They're not trying to make a commercial song

There was tracks on it,
when we delivered it, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

There was tracks on it, when we delivered it,

JOHN LECKIE:
When we were at Rockfield Studios, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

JOHN LECKIE: When we were at Rockfield Studios,

I drove down there in my beautiful,
executive whatever-it-was - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

I drove down there in my beautiful, executive whatever-it-wa...

When Tarquin got up the next morning
to go into his flash car... - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

When Tarquin got up the next morning to go into his flash ca...

..all manner of...
junk had been thrown. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

..all manner of... junk had been thrown.

And when I say "junk",
I mean it was in a mess. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

And when I say "junk", I mean it was in a mess.

They filled it with eggs and cream
and disgusting things. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

They filled it with eggs and cream and disgusting things.

LAUGHING: And I really thought
they'd gone too far. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

LAUGHING: And I really thought they'd gone too far.

There was this feeling of, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

There was this feeling of,

I remember sitting in the room with
the band and the record company, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

I remember sitting in the room with the band and the record ...

We've changed direction, really,
because we found - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

We've changed direction, really, because we found

And it's basically, you know, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

And it's basically, you know,

Although the path was out of focus,
it felt like the right path. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

Although the path was out of focus, it felt like the right p...

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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, the most iconic and influential Scottish band in history.

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Director: Joss Crowley

Writer: Joss Crowley

Production: Greenwich Entertainment

Genre: documentary, music

Year: 2023

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Released: 22 Dec 2023

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