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Simple Minds' new gold dream

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Simple Minds

by Anonyme - 05/03/2012 - 21:54

This was grrreat to see this interview, but a bit of a pity to see some extracts of video clips from the eighties... Some "live" extracts from recent gigs would have been a real plus, and not the video memories of the past (having not a lot in common with the gigs as they were at the time...).

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