Don't You (Forget About Me).
The song was the musical leitmotif of The Breakfast Club, a teen-themed film written and directed by John Hughes and starring Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy and Paul Gleason. It was a huge movie success in the eighties, as well as putting the group Simple Minds in the musical stardom.
This song is heard in the film at the beginning and at the end, but it seems to accompany the whole footage, it starts playing during the credits, and continues during the presentation of the 5 main characters, thanks to an instrumental adaptation by Keith Forsey, the score composer, (who was a quite famous music producer thanks to the Oscar he won for his participation in the soundtrack of the movie Flashdance).
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In 1984, British producer Keith Forsey, in charge of the soundtrack for the movie The Breakfast Club, was looking for an interpreter for this song written with Steve Schiff, Nina Hagen's guitarist and composer.
Cy Curnin, singer of the band The Fixx, Bryan Ferry singer of the band Roxy Music and Billy Idol refused to record the song because they did not see the song's potential. Schiff then suggested to Forsey that he try out Simple Minds, a Scottish band that was making a name for itself with the British public.
The producer contacted them and got a no answer, since they only played their own compositions. Later the group Simple Minds was convinced by the directors of A&M Records, to take advantage of the opportunity to penetrate the U.S. recording market and support their tour in the U.S. as opening act for The Pretenders.
The recording was done in three days, without any effort, the band invents a new intro and adds the 'la-la-las' at the end.
For this song the group was invited to participate in the Live Aid festival held in Philadelphia. Don't You (Fotget About Me) is considered among the 100 best-selling songs in history, selling 6.5 million copies worldwide.
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The song turned out to be a worldwide hit, being the only number one achieved by the group Simple Minds. In the UK, it remained in the UK charts between 1985 and 1987. The video for this song combined scenes from the film with images of the band and was heavily rotated on MTV.
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The Breakfast Club conveys that high school is not life, there is much more beyond the walls of an institution. The film deals with issues such as the misunderstanding of children by their parents, the differences between the social and economic conditions in which they are raised and the disintegration of the nuclear family.
Five young people are punished to spend a whole Saturday at the institute where they study and to deliver a statement explaining the reasons why they are there. This is required by the vice-principal, who is more interested in imposing his own rules than in leaving room for the boys' own identity.
Here, the characters say what they think and what they feel and little by little the stereotypes that characterize them disappear:
John Bender, (Judd Nelson) is a misfit and a bully, the bad boy of the high school, and it is suggested that he is up to no good. He was targeted for setting off a fire alarm.
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Allison Reynolds, (Ally Sheedy) is the oddball and labeled as crazy, not adapting to this reality she's in, and it's not known if she can make it in a world beyond high school. She went to detention because she had nothing better to do.
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Clair Standish, (Molly Ringwald) believes that popularity is everything, but sooner or later she must face reality. She was arrested for shopping during school hours.
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Andrew Clark, (Emilio Estevez) is the wrestling athlete who pleases his father, since he believes that this way he will succeed in life. He goes to detention for taping up a classmate's testicles.
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Brian Johnson, (Anthony Michael Hall), the smart one, is always pressured by his family to get good grades. He went to detention for causing damage to other people's property with a flare gun that was in his locker.
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Unredeemed is Assistant Principal Richard Vernon (Paul Gleason) who abuses his power within the institution in order to gain self-satisfaction from a shattered personal life.
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These five students, faced with an adverse situation, adapt to reality despite being totally different, and manage to unite in order to cope with what happens and ultimately triumph.
There are escapes from the punishment room, moments of tedium in it, moments of confession, acid jokes by John Bender and a priceless musical version of Colonel Bogey's March popularized in the movie Bridge On The River Kwai.
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As the end of detention approaches Brian completes the essay for everyone, leaving the essay in the library for Assistant Principal Vernon to read. The latter reads the essay, there Brian states that Vernon already has them labeled and that he is crazy if he thinks they will tell him who they are. "Each of us is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Does that answer your question?" he signs the essay with "Sincerely, The Breakfast Club."
The Breakfast Club is John Hughes' masterpiece as a filmmaker in the 1980s before moving into 1990s family films as a screenwriter. This film features the themes and obsessions he usually touched on in his youth films.
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Every time I hear this song it is impossible to separate it from the movie, it is one of those few songs that makes my skin crawl when I hear it and immediately I am transported to 1985, I just graduated from high school and visualizing in these movies characters that I managed to see in real life, with issues of family misunderstanding that I personally had to live, and you know it is true that there is a life beyond high school, even I had to join people of different ways of thinking to achieve a common goal. This song transmits me those memories and sensations.
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Yo vi esa película, me gustan las tramas de secundaria, me gustó el papel de ese chico, fue muy divertido. La verdad no recordaba la banda sonora. Gracias por compartirla.
Gracias por visitar mi publicacion. Recientemente la rescate en formato digital y sigue gustandome tanto como cuando la vi en el cine años atras. Dicen que es la pelicula definitiva tramas de secundarias, claro esta en los 80´s.
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Wow, this is a classic film and and classic song! Great choice!
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Thanks for stopping by. The movie is a cult classic and the song despite being rejected by many is now timeless.
Amazing movie and a classic song. Thank you so much for your entry!
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