Video of Death Cab for Cutie Covering Simple Minds for John Hughes Tribute

"Don't You (Forget About Me)" at the Critics' Choice Awards

Jan 16, 2010 By Mark Redfern Photography by Steven Dewall Bookmark and Share


Last night at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards, which were broadcast on VH1, Death Cab for Cutie performed a cover of Simple Minds' 1985 hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)." The performance was part of a tribute to film director John Hughes, who passed away last August. The original Simple Minds' version was featured in Hughes' 1985 film The Breakfast Club and clips from that, and other Hughes' classics, played behind Death Cab. We have the video below. You can also find our tribute to John Hughes here. And make sure to pick up Under the Radar's Best of the Decade Issue, which features Death Cab's Ben Gibbard on the cover (along with four other artists of the decade) and is on stands now.

 

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Rich
January 16th 2010
9:08pm

Alas.  Truly terrible. From a fan of the original, and someone who’d like to be a fan of new music.  The ‘big’ music of those artists can’t be authentically covered by powerless, androgynous sad-sacks.