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If Simple Minds seems like a strange name to you, how would you feel about Johnny & The Self-Abusers? It’s no joke! That’s the name Simple Minds originally started out with, back when they were beginning! Of course, the late 1970s were a strange time.

April 2, 1986

SIMPLE MINDS TOUR EXCLUSIVE!

If Simple Minds seems like a strange name to you, how would you feel about Johnny & The Self-Abusers? It’s no joke! That’s the name Simple Minds originally started out with, back when they were beginning! Of course, the late 1970s were a strange time. Bands like the Sex Pistols, the Jam, Generation X and others were becoming quite popular in Great Britain, so can Simple Minds be blamed if they wanted to ‘‘follow the leaders” with such an unusual (some would say scandalous) name?

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