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It's called... Mandela Day
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Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

It's called... Mandela Day

It's called... Mandela Day

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It's called... Mandela Day.
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6 seconds
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31
Timestamp in Movie
01:04:34
Uploaded
Apr 15, 2025
Genres
documentary, music
Production
Greenwich Entertainment

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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.
# It was 25 years ago This very day... # - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:16
# It was 25 years ago This very day... #
So we were trying to get his name across to the mainstream - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:12
So we were trying to get his name across to the mainstream
Jerry came to us, I suppose, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:06
Jerry came to us, I suppose,
And I just felt we owed it in the UK - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:13
And I just felt we owed it in the UK
Mandela was a complete political hot potato. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:06
Mandela was a complete political hot potato.
I mean, Thatcher and the Tory government hated that. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:06
I mean, Thatcher and the Tory government hated that.
You know, when BBC Two decided that they were gonna screen the gig, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:12
You know, when BBC Two decided that they were gonna screen t...
It's about time perhaps Simple Minds understood - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:05
It's about time perhaps Simple Minds understood
There are people wanting reform in South Africa, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:06
There are people wanting reform in South Africa,
The big Wembley concert, I can say, definitely would never have happened - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:17
The big Wembley concert, I can say, definitely would never h...
And the whole thing was basically built on Jim's commitment. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:06
And the whole thing was basically built on Jim's commit...
Just something felt right about, you know, the whole thing. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:06
Just something felt right about, you know, the whole thing.
And we were kind of just getting to that age where you start to think, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:11
And we were kind of just getting to that age where you start...
It took us five minutes. Jim said to me, "What do you think?" - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:15
It took us five minutes. Jim said to me, "What do you t...
But it was British investment that propped up the apartheid regime. - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:06
But it was British investment that propped up the apartheid ...
The size of the Wembley concert, the TV audience - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:21
The size of the Wembley concert, the TV audience
By the time we got to Once Upon A Time, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:19
By the time we got to Once Upon A Time,
And so what we needed to do was hitch our wagon... - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:07
And so what we needed to do was hitch our wagon...
..to people that really, in the previous years, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:09
..to people that really, in the previous years,
I had some kind of a meeting with Jim, - Simple Minds: Everything is Possible 00:07
I had some kind of a meeting with Jim,