IDOL X - Dont' Your Forget About Me (Simple Minds - Billy Idol)

Billy Idol recorded "Don't You Forget About Me" the hit made popular by Simple Minds in the movie The Breakfast Club, in 2001 for his Greatest Hits album. IDOL X performs it on a regular basis at our shows. This fan video, shot by Don Peterson, was at BLK Live in Scottsdale Arizona on December 14th, 2018.

[@sarys73]

He always has a good voice live.

[@christianew.2367]

Doen x 't mske me feel anything sorry, just lookd a bit similsr hair..

[@gypsyroadrunner8049]

Love this version as much as the orginal... Nobody should forget the eighties n the nineties...it would be total crime ..never gonna 4get Billy the Legend IdoL...🤘🤘

[@ARichardP]

Very good performance. When this song came out in 1985 it was a huge hit. The la-la la-la was added as filler by Jim Kerr thinking he’d add something better later but the band loved it when they heard it and it was kept in.

[@ritakanyo]

I will never forget you! 💝

[@bonggalban9824]

it only shows that this song is a classic that even mr. idol sang it

[@FoobsTon]

He turned it down before it got offered to SM

[@danedenmusic]

This guy is so good everyone is commenting like he is really Billy Idol...

[@LRBeforeTheInternet]

Well, I was there, Dan, and this was an exclusive experience I only wish i could relive. LOL :)

[@Plowthecow]

So correct. Guys this is NOT Billly Idol. He does a very good imitation though!

[@ritakanyo]

Your voice is irresistible 😍 ❤ 💋 you still rocking! 💪✌

[@carrieashley6465]

Oh billy boy love every song you done you got great voice 💞

[@jasonbrand5762]

We wont forget about ya man !

[@mjdchile]

Grande Billy!!!. Best Regard from Santiago de Chile

[@TIREDOFTHENONSENSE]

This song makes me cry...remimds me of long ago lover

[@ritakanyo]

Oh yeah! ❤ He's breathtaking! 🌹 🌺 Billy forever 💞 🎼 🎤 🎸!

[@johnnysouza17]

Não é o Billy Idol e sim um sósia dele.

[@steviekeyz100]

absolutely brilliant, im a keyboard player in the uk, if I was closer to you guys I would be messaging like crazy to join

[@carlosgoncalves9214]

Cool Performance!

[@emwjmannen2]

Cool performance, wish you could have played the guitar solo though! This is the closest thing to a live version of Billy Idoll! I really wish he could be playing it live someday!

[@dwhizzledizzle3538]

Oh damn, you guys are good!
I thought this was really Billy Idol at first!

[@anaclarasilva8976]

Billy idol ícone até hoje quanto nua como um bom vinho que só melhora com a idade maravilhoso

[@aalleejja1]

Canción que el rechazo cantar.

[@campsecxxi7448]

super x

[@peterhererra]

Wooo !!!!!

[@rafael.silva_noroeste_noticias]

Excelente !!!

[@gloriamorales3330]

this version makes me crazy!

[@otilialins]

Quem é esse cover do Billy? Perfeito!

[@dextermorgan4594]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@asaandersson9214]

❤😊😊

[@jasonbrand5762]

💪💀

[@HonNey-xi4ef]

This song was originally written to be sung by Billy Idol but for some reason he declined the opportunity.

[@allendionnelastcall3749]

You're in the ball park. It was originally written for simple minds but they refused it at first then it was offered yo Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol who both refused it. Simple Minds later agreed to do it.

[@HighlandMike325]

@@allendionnelastcall3749 I thought it was written for Bryan Ferry. Check out the demo with the Ferry-like vocal

[@allendionnelastcall3749]

@@HighlandMike325 Don't You (Forget About Me)" was written and composed by the producer Keith Forsey and the guitarist Steve Schiff while they were scoring the 1985 film The Breakfast Club. Both were Simple Minds fans and wrote the song with the band in mind. Forsey played a demo for the band's label, A&M Records, which invited him to meet the band backstage after one of their "Tour du Monde" shows in the U.S. However, A&M did not notify Simple Minds that Forsey would appear, and the band declined to record the song.[3]
Forsey offered "Don't You (Forget About Me)" to Bryan Ferry, who declined as he was working on his album Boys and Girls. Ferry said later: "It was just bad timing ... Keith Forsey sent me a demo of the song and it sounded like a hit to me. Simple Minds did a great version of it."[4] Billy Idol, whom Forsey was producing at the time, also declined.[3][a] A&M suggested Corey Hart, who had a hit at the time with "Sunglasses at Night", but Forsey did not think Hart was the right singer.[5] Fixx lead singer Cy Curnin also declined.[citation needed]
According to the Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr, Simple Minds were reluctant to record the song as they felt they should only record their own material. He said in 2018: "We are Simple Minds-we don't do songs that sound like Simple Minds. We are Simple Minds. We do our own songs." The band also were frustrated that their attempts to find success in the US market had not found significant radio airplay, and did not see how recording the song would change this.[3]
The band relented after persuasion from A&M and from Chrissie Hynde, Kerr's wife at the time, and after receiving a phone call from Forsey in which he reiterated his admiration for the band.[6] According to one account, the band "rearranged and recorded 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' in three hours in the north London studio and promptly forgot about it,"[7] believing that it would be a throwaway song on the soundtrack to a forgettable movie.[3]

[@philadelphiaman]

Doesn't Say He Recorded The Song 17 Years After He Turned it Down

[@budsodalsky]

Billy was asked to do this song - first - then Simple Minds did it

[@Mardocius]

Billy and Bryan both effed up pretty badly there...although would it have been used in the movie if either of them had recorded it? Its massive success was primarily down to the film's success

[@MrGuizz13]

OUTSTANDING 👌🏼
(if ur an 80's child)

[@DougMcDave]

I heard they wanted him to do it, but he passed on it. It seems he did it later.

[@airtonvieiraairtonvieira4342]

Idol os line David Bowie, Ayrton Senna and ...

[@hbmai3945]

Why do all rockers have great hair? Not all but you know what I mean.

[@paulofredericoarcherdacunh2010]

Hope he doesn't fall

[@eros1315]

Ficou top essa versão

[@luanfigueiredo3776]

dá uma tristeza ver um cara grande como o Idol tocando pra três pessoas

[@IDOLXTribute]

¿Tres personas? Era un lugar repleto, están viendo el video desde el frente y el área VIP. jajaja

[@luanfigueiredo3776]

Ainda bem que tem rock in rio em setembro 🙌

[@johnnysouza17]

Só que não é o Billy Idol aí no vídeo e sim um sósia meia boca.

[@Frituraweb]

bom é vc. respeita o trampo alheio ​@@johnnysouza17

[@ubermenschmexa]

No one can convince me this isn't Vergil from devil may cry

[@R08R]

Effortless!

[@no_hyperbole_xone]

Originally written for Billy Idol, but he decided to turn it down

[@SrIslam1745]

This was originally written for Billy idol, it is not a simple minds song.

[@IDOLXTribute]

The song was written for Simple Minds, who were reluctant to record the song, then offered to Bryan Ferry, then offered to Billy Idol third who only recorded it for his Greatest Hits album. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_You_(Forget_About_Me)