There was a common trajectory for the great new wave artists of the ’80s. With many of them having come out of punk in the ’70s, their beginnings were often more avant-garde than they might be given ...

For most Americans, the Scottish rock group Simple Minds will always be synonymous with their number one hit from 1985, “Don't You (Forget About Me),” from the John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club.

In its biggest hit, the song from the 1985 No. 1 teen movie “The Breakfast Club,” the Scottish post-punk art-rock group Simple Minds sang, “Don’t You (Forget About Me).” And for a while, American ...