“Direction Of The Heart”

Whether you’re good at math or not, it really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that Simple Minds have sold 60 million records. After all, the Scottish band have been around since 1977 and since then, have put out an uninterrupted string of classics like Empires and Dance, New Gold Dream, Sparkle in the Rain, Once Upon A Time, Street Fighting Years and their most recent effort Direction of the Heart. With 20 albums under their musical belts, plus number one songs like "Don’t You Forget About Me" and "Belfast Child,” plus taking home the Ivor Novello Prize, the Q Inspiration Award, a few MTV music video awards, Brit Awards and an American Music Award, it’s safe to say that Simple Minds' CV is far too long to be enumerated in full on this podcast. Just trust us on this: Simple Minds are a proper band. And singer Jim Kerr is a proper frontman—a great singer, a man with tremendous presence and a believer in the democracy of a rock and roll band. Their new album Direction Of The Heart is a big blast of sonorous pop that rings out
with truth and heart—another winning entry into a classic discography.

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Simple Minds Best of enjoy !
Tracklist:

1: Soul crying out
2: Belfast child
3: Hypnotised
4: Solstice kiss
5: Let there be love
6: Real life
7: Banging on the door
8: This is your land
9: Changeling 
10: 7 Deadly sins
11: Vision thing
12: Waterfront
13: Sanctify yourself
14: First you jump
15: Stand by love
16: The american
17: Glittering prize
18: She's a river
19: Biko
20: Sense of discovery
21: Street fighting years
22: Mandela day
23: All the things she said
24: Alive and kicking
25: Blindfolded
26: Love song
27: New gold dream
28: See the lights
29: Act of love 
30: Home
31: Speed your love to me
32: I travel
33: Someone somewhere
34: Don't you 
35: Promised you a miracle

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In August 1983, at the same time WVNJ had been re-christened as WHTZ ("Z100"), WPLJ became known as "The Home of the Hits", and in October, added top 40-style jingles. 
In a way it was "New York's Hit Music Station" just before WHTZ went on the air. 
The following spring WPLJ identified itself very briefly as "The New Musicradio PLJ" before segueing to "Hitradio 95" just a short time later. 
In early 1985, the station became known on-air as "Power 95".
Ratings went up after switching to CHR though they were still just behind Z100 most of the time.

WPLJ 95.5 NEW YORK  "Jim Kerr"   August 12, 1986  Part 1

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