Simple Minds’ Once Upon A Time receives 40th anniversary reissue

Simple Minds’ Once Upon A Time receives 40th anniversary reissue treatment with red vinyl and 5CD boxset release.

The limited edition red vinyl now includes global smash hit single Don’t You (Forget About Me) for the very first tmie, which recently surpassed one billion streams on Spotify.

Also available is a repackaged version of the original Super Deluxe edition. This incredible 5CD box set consists of the original album, bonus discs with a wealth of supplementary tracks, including the original and extended versions of Don’t You (Forget About Me), single edits, 12” mixes, B-sides, rare tracks, and the 2-disc ‘Live in The City of Light’ concert, as well a 36-page booklet with rare photos, interviews with Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill and a track-by-track guide.

Once Upon A Time was to prove the album that propelled Simple Minds to stratospheric heights of artistic and commercial success. The album contains the classic hit singles Alive And Kicking, All The Things She Said, Sanctify Yourself, and Ghost Dancing.

Originally released in October 1985, Once Upon A Time became Simple Minds’ most successful album to date, shifting two million copies in two months, hitting the top spot in the UK and making the Top 10 in America. It spawned four Top 20 singles and launched a 15-month long world tour. And with Jimmy Iovine and Bob Clearmountain providing a production dream team, and Anton Corbijn contributing to its instantly recognisable artwork, then Once Upon A Time is a truly classic 1980s album.

Red vinyl

Side A
Once Upon A Time
All The Things She Said
Ghost Dancing
Alive And Kicking
Don’t You (Forget About Me)
Side B
Oh Jungleland
I Wish You Were Here
Sanctify Yourself
Come A Long Way

The incredible 5CD box set consists of the original album, bonus discs with a wealth of supplementary tracks, including the original and extended versions of (Don’t You) Forget About Me, single edits, 12″ mixes, B-sides, rare tracks, and the 2-disc Live In The City Of Light concert, as well a 36-page booklet with rare photos, interviews with Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill and a track-by-track guide.

CD CLAMSHELL BOX
Disc One: Once Upon A Time

Once Upon A Time
All The Things She Said
Ghost Dancing
Alive And Kicking
Oh Jungleland
I Wish You Were Here
Sanctify Yourself
Come A Long Way

Disc Two: B-Sides / Mixes                                                                                                                                                    

Don’t You (Forget About Me) – 7″ Single
A Brass Band in African Chimes – 7″ Single
Don’t You (Forget About Me) – 12″ Single
A Brass Band In African Chimes – Extended Version
Alive And Kicking – Edit
Alive And Kicking – Instrumental
Up On The Catwalk – Live (Barrowlands, Ballroom, Glasgow: 5th January 1985
Alive And Kicking – 7″ Remix / Edit
Alive And Kicking – 12″ Remix
Alive And Kicking – Kevorkian 12″ Remix
Sanctify Yourself – Edit
Sanctify Yourself – Instrumental
Sanctify Yourself – Alternative Edit

Disc Three: B-Sides / Extended Mixes                                                                                                                          

Street Hassle – Live – Ahoy, Rotterdam: 3 December 1985
Love Song – Live – Ahoy, Rotterdam: 3 December 1985
Sanctify Yourself – Extended Mix
Sanctify Yourself – Dub Version
All The Things She Said – Edit
Promised You A Miracle – US Remix
All The Things She Said – Extended Version
Don’t You (Forget About Me) – Live- Ahoy, Rotterdam: 3 December 1985
Ghost Dancing – 12″ Remix
Ghost Dancing – Instrumental
Oh Jungleland – 12″ Remix
Oh Jungleland – Instrumental

Disc Four: Live In the City of Light – Live From Le Zenith, Paris 1986

Ghost Dancing
Big Sleep
Waterfront
Promised You A Miracle
Someone Somewhere (In Summertime)
Oh Jungleland
Alive And Kicking

Disc Five: Live In the City of Light – Live From Le Zenith, Paris 1986

Don’t You (Forget About Me)
Once Upon A Time
Book Of Brilliant Things
East At Easter
Sanctify Yourself
Love Song / Sun City / Dance To The Music
New Gold Dream

Picture credit: Simon Emmett

Following the completion last year of the first part of their hugely successful Global Tour (their largest tour since 1985), Simple Minds recently played shows in Latin America, performing in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, and have just completed a 24-date leg of the US and Canada.

These dates will be followed by a series of UK and Ireland summer shows, commencing with a very special one-off hometown show at Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park on 27 June, where the band will perform their iconic 1985 album Once Upon A Time in its entirety to celebrate its 40th anniversary, along with a selection of their greatest hits. It will be the band’s biggest UK headline show in over 30 years. Special guests will include Future Islands, KT Tunstall and Hamish Hawk.

Simple Minds UK Dates

27  June – Bellahouston, Glasgow
28 June – Lincoln Castle
29 June – Southampton Summer Sessions
01 July – Trinity Summer Series, Dublin
03 July – Bedford Summer Sessions
06 July – Lytham Festival, Lytham St. Annes *Already on sale
07 July – Live At Piece Hall, Halifax
08 Jul – Derby Summer Sessions

Throughout the rest of July Simple Minds will head to play concerts across Europe.

For tickets click here

Simple Minds’ Once Upon A Time is out 17 October and can be pre-ordered here