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Simple Minds detail ‘5X5 Live’ album featuring songs originally recorded from 1979-1982

Simple Minds detail ‘5X5 Live’ album featuring songs originally recorded from 1979-1982

Simple Minds last week announced plans to release a double-CD live album culled from this year’s “5×5 Live” tour of Europe, and now comes the full tracklist, which, keeping with the tour’s concept, draws five songs apiece off of each of the band’s first five albums. Check out the full tracklist.

Stream: Simple Minds, ‘Special View’ — B-side of debut single, off new ‘x5’ box set

Stream: Simple Minds, ‘Special View’ — B-side of debut single, off new ‘x5’ box set

With their new ‘x5’ box set out Monday in the U.K., Simple Minds today offered up a stream of one of the set’s remastered bonus tracks: ‘Special View,’ the B-side to the band’s very first single, ‘Life in a Day,’ originally released in 1979. Check it out right here.

Simple Minds announce ‘5X5 Live’ European tour, box set featuring first 5 albums

Simple Minds announce ‘5X5 Live’ European tour, box set featuring first 5 albums

Simple Minds today unveiled plans for a 16-date European tour early next year dubbed ‘5X5 Live’ that will see the band each night perform five songs off of each of its first five albums. The group also will release a new box set, ‘Simple Minds X5,’ featuring those five albums and previously unreleased bonus material.