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Simple Minds Celebrate 40 Years with New Memoir
10/10/2025
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- Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill of Simple Minds reflect on four decades of music.
- Their memoir Our Secrets Are the Same traces their rise from Glasgow to fame.
- Kerr has endured two divorces, yet the duo remains committed to their band.
- They live as neighbors in Taormina, Sicily, sharing music, literature, and Celtic FC.
- The 40th anniversary edition of Once Upon a Time is set for release on October 17.
