Don’t You (Forget About Me)
Simple Minds’ 1985 recording of “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” is the earliest release on file. Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff are credited as its writers. Also recorded by Billy Idol (released 2001), KT Tunstall (released 2011) and The Wind and the Wave (released 2014), among 165 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. Kanye West’s “Blazin’” (2010) samples it, per MusicBrainz.
"Blazin'" runs on a confirmed sample of "Don't You (Forget About Me)," and Simple Minds had that song on record back in 1985. Play the two back to back and listen to the old hook get put to work.
Simple Minds cut it before Billy did, though neither of them wrote it; the credit belongs to Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff. Start with the Simple Minds side, then flip to Billy's 2001 take and hear the same song change hands.
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▶Don't You (Forget About Me)Credited writers: Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff.
Earliest release on file: this one, 1985.
Kanye West’s “Blazin’” (2010) samples it, per MusicBrainz.
- S.O.S.Y.A.1993
- Life of Agony1995
- The Bouncing Souls1999
- Steel Prophet2000
- Billy Idol2001
- Hookslide2002
- Thrust2002
- Belle Lawrence2004
- KT Tunstall2011
- The Wind and the Wave2014
165 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.
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