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Classic Album: Simple Minds - New Gold Dream

Steve Lamacq has a Classic Album of the Day interview with Jim Kerr from Simple Minds, who talks about the band's fifth album, New Gold Dream, released in 1982.

Steve has a Classic Album of the Day interview with Jim Kerr from Simple Minds, to talk about the bands fifth album, from 1982, New Gold Dream. It was a turning point for the band as they gained critical and commercial success in the UK and Europe.
This Classic Album interview is the second in the series, to be followed by Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 27 Jul 2016 16:00

Music Played

  • John Foxx

    Underpass

    • Virgin Universal.
  • Radiohead

    Identikit

  • Elliott Smith

    Baby Britain

    • Dreamworks.
  • Lucy Dacus

    I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore

    • No Burden.
    • Matador Records Ltd.
  • Dizzee Rascal

    Fix Up, Look Sharp

    • Boy In Da Corner.
    • XL Recordings.
    • 3.
  • Rahim Redcar

    Tilted

    • Because Music.
  • James Blake

    Need A Forest Fire (Glastonbury 2016) (feat. Justin Vernon)

  • Dr. Feelgood

    Roxette

    • EMI.
  • Michael Kiwanuka

    Love & Hate

  • Catfish and the Bottlemen

    Twice

    • Island Records.
  • Glass Animals

    Youth

    • Wolf Tone.
  • Lou Rhodes

    All I Need

    • Nude Records.
  • Tom Jones & The Cardigans

    Burning Down the House

    • Smash Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.
  • Magazine

    A Song From Under The Floorboards

    • Virgin.
  • Jagwar Ma

    O B 1

    • Marathon Artists.
  • Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine

    The Taking of Peckham 123

    • Big Cat Records.
  • Yak

    Use Somebody

    • Octopus Electrical.
  • ? and the Mysterians

    96 Tears

    • ABKCO.
  • Bear鈥檚 Den

    Auld Wives

    • Communion.
  • The Kills

    Impossible Tracks

    • Domino.
  • Jungle Brothers

    Because I Got It Like That

    • V2.
  • She Drew the Gun

    Pit Pony

    • Skeleton Key Records.
  • Shame

    The Lick (Live At Dropout)

    • White Label.
  • Jefferson Airplane

    White Rabbit

    • Virgin.
  • Alice Cooper

    Feed My Frankenstein

    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
  • Simple Minds

    Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel

  • Simple Minds

    Hunter And The Hunted (2016 remaster)

    • New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (2016 remaster).
    • Universal.
    • 008.
  • Simple Minds

    Glittering Prize (David Jenson Session 1982)

Broadcast

  • Wed 27 Jul 2016 16:00