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Simple Minds

Alive and Kicking

1985 · via Simple Minds

Simple Minds’ 1985 recording of “Alive and Kicking” is the earliest release on file. Charlie Burchill, Jim Kerr and Michael MacNeil of Simple Minds are credited as its writers. Also recorded by Band for the Tribes (released 2002), among 83 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Simple Minds – Alive and Kicking
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Band for the Tribes put Alive and Kicking on record in 2002, the same year Simple Minds went back and recorded their own song again. Play both and see whether a borrowed copy can hold the room like the writers' own.

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Credited writers: Charlie Burchill, Jim Kerr and Michael MacNeil.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1985.

Other recordings on file · first release year

83 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill and Michael MacNeil wrote Simple Minds' Alive and Kicking. Which other act took the song and cut its own recording of it?Band for the Tribes
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