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Billy Idol

Don’t You (Forget About Me)

2001 · via Simple Minds

Billy Idol’s earliest release of “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” on file came out in 2001. Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff are credited as its writers. The earliest release on file is Simple Minds’, from 1985. Also recorded by KT Tunstall (released 2011), The Wind and the Wave (released 2014) and Life of Agony (released 1995), among 165 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Billy Idol – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
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Simple Minds sang it, but Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff wrote it, and the song kept moving after them, through Billy Idol and on to KT Tunstall. Put the Idol cut on and hear the same words land in a different mouth.

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Credited writers: Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff.

Earliest release on file: Simple Minds, 1985.

Other recordings on file · first release year

165 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Simple Minds recorded "Don't You (Forget About Me)," but the band didn't write it. Who shares the writing credit with Steve Schiff?Keith Forsey
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