EXCLUSIVE: Not many bands can declare to have surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify for a single music. However Easy Minds is considered one of them.
The Scottish group greatest identified for his or her hit “Don’t You (Neglect About Me)” – unforgettably integrated into the John Hughes film The Breakfast Membership – is the main target of the documentary Easy Minds: Every thing Is Potential. Greenwich Leisure at present introduced it has acquired North American rights to the movie directed by Joss Crowley, with plans to launch it theatrically on June 13 throughout the band’s upcoming North American tour.
Easy Minds within the early Nineties. L-R Charlie Burchill, Malcolm Foster, Jim Kerr, Mel Gaynor
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Easy Minds has bought greater than 60 million albums worldwide, charting two dozen singles within the U.Ok. alone, together with “Don’t You” (which final yr made the Spotify Billions Membership), “Alive and Kicking,” “Let There Be Love,” “She’s a River,” and “Sanctify Your self.” The band shaped in Glasgow in 1977; singer-musician Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill are the one two members who’ve been with the group for its whole historical past (amongst earlier band members are keyboardist Mick MacNeil, bassist Derek Forbes, bassist John Giblin, and drummers Brian McGee and Mel Gaynor).
Singer Jim Kerr of Easy Minds performs throughout the 2015 Billboard Music Awards on Might 17, 2015 in Las Vegas. Projected on display behind him is a picture of Molly Ringwald in ‘The Breakfast Membership.’
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Crowley’s documentary, a BMG and Lonesome Pine manufacturing, held its U.S. premiere as a part of the Merciless World Music Pageant in Pasadena, CA.
“From working-class youngsters in post-industrial Glasgow to rock stars enjoying Stay Support,” notes an outline of the movie, “that is the unlikely story of a unprecedented band that continues touring around the globe to at the present time.”
“Due to Greenwich for giving Every thing is Potential the discharge it deserves,” Crowley mentioned in an announcement. “Ever since Jim and Charlie entrusted me to inform their story, I’ve dreamt about it reaching North American audiences. The movie is finally about how music introduced them collectively and utterly modified their lives – exactly the inspirational touchpoints we’re all craving in 2025.”
Easy Minds: Every thing is Potential is produced and directed by Joss Crowley. The documentary was made by Lonesome Pine Productions and financed by BMG. The acquisition deal was negotiated by Greenwich’s Ed Arentz and Sphere Abacus’s Jonathan Ford on behalf of the filmmakers.
