“Premonition” by Simple Minds

Simple Minds had just four songs in hand when they set up at Rockfield Studios to make their second album, Real to Real Cacophony, and "Premonition" was one of them; everything else on the record, released on 23 November 1979, got written on the spot. Their debut, Life in a Day, had left the Scottish band cold, so this time they worked fast and loose and let the studio itself into the writing, with John Leckie producing and mixing and sharing the arranging credit on this track.

Jim Kerr wrote the words and sings them over Charlie Burchill's guitar, Derek Forbes's bass, Michael MacNeill's keyboards and Brian McGee's drums. The album had its ears pressed to German Krautrock, the hypnotic motorik churn of Neu!, Kraftwerk and La Düsseldorf. It sank without charting.

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