Given that today is Jim Kerr’s 51st birthday, we dedicate this installment of Vintage Video to the Simple Minds frontman. Here’s a performance of one of the band’s most rousing anthems, “Waterfront,” filmed Sept. 15, 1989, at L’Arena in Verona, Italy, during the band’s Street Fighting Years tour. The full concert was released in 1990 as the “Verona” home video, and subsequently reissued on DVD in 2004 with the new title “Seen the Lights: Live in Verona.”
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can we start a petition to get Simple Minds to the US?