Talk about peaking at the exact right time. Scottish art-rockers Simple Minds had just hit their stride with February 1984’s transitional and scored an unexpected No. 1 single in the summer of 1985 with the soundtrack-only smash hit “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”—and it was all precursor to the production power that propelled their October 1985 longplayer, , into one of the biggest albums of the MTV Decade.
