Simple Minds: The Laird
Adam Sweeting, Q, August 1987
HE HAS HEARD the big music, and he'll never be the same. "At the end of the day we are a hell of a noise," Jim Kerr says, "and it's gonna get out of hand sometimes, and then it's gonna be really good. It's very simple really."
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