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Simple Minds Dream A New Gold Dream

Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 5 July 1983

JIM KERR'S eyes light up. "I saw (the German film) Fitzcarraldo three weeks after our album was complete, and there was a subtitle in it that said 'only dreamers move mountains.' I just wanted to jump up and cheer. It was a really big thing to me, especially just then. And it made me think, there's so much force behind it: it takes courage to dream in these days."

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