Simple Minds - "Mandela Day" live 1990

[IlSegreto79]

beautiful.....



[KaleGroto]

Somebody bring back the eighties, things were much more simple and full of quality!!!

Thank you Simple Minds, Regards from Greece

[subjectg]

:-)

[david4562000]

I was there!! I was there!!!!

[dd3097]

@david4562000 

[123069bfj]

LONG LIFE TO NELSON MANDELA,A MOST BIG MAN OF AFRICA,WE'LL NEVER FORGET HIS FIGHT EVER....AFRICA UNITE TOGETHER WE WILL HAVE THE VICTORY....

[gordrix1]

This is how to work a crowd. To turn a song that mention the words 'Nelson' and/or 'Mandela' into something that is not tacky or cloying or just plain fucking naff is quite an achievement for ANY band. The elecricity in Simple Mind's performance comes across - even on video. Jim Kerr has all the right moves, stagecraft, a breathy voice of indisputable class and thus makes himself look like a totally awesome rock god to have me drooling that I was him! Class.

[1968seanie]

I was there! The best gig ever! Not sure how I ended up here, watching this, but glad I did. What memories!

[mercdistortion]

@1968seanie i've heared this song in the car ( radio station ) i ran to the computer to listen to it again , such a great song ,,

greetings from Morocco

[thiagojagua]

Great, great song! Not only the meaning, but musically it is awesome! Far from being envious, but I wanna sing like this guy. =)

[tjubigi1]

ahhh !!!

[KaleGroto]

Daaamn!! This is amazing we live at the wrong time!! I wish i could go back 20 years!!

[mariechen10]

@KaleGroto absolutely when my father talks about the time I wish I would just have been there. Music was much more meaningful back then and way better!

[tiojota1]

la mejor banda en directo.

[rdtli]

EPIC......CHEERS FROM BRASIL

[Ollfie]

Mandela ... a communist agitator & terrorist. Blew up Power Stations on behalf of the para military wing of the ANC. Killed white people in hospital beds who were unable to have dyalasis, ECG and monitoring because of the lack of power. His then wife Winnie took orders from him from his cell on Robben Island to kill his opponents within the movement with petrol filled tyres... A Fire Necklace.....This so called 'great man' is a two bit hodlum and murderer. I was 8 when he was jailed.

[sweetassugar69]

@Ollfie i am white and english and maybe its just payback for all we have done to them ! what comes around go's around and you are not a black southafrican so yoy dont see it as they see it !!!

[Ollfie]

@sweetassugar69. Your right. I'm not a black South African.......I'm a white Ex pat whose family worked for De Beers and I lived there for 28 years and saw my friend blown up by a car bomb in Hillbrow. The guy was dying on the street and the blacks stood around and laughed chanting ANC! ANC! It comes as no surprise that Mandella was freed in the way he was...but those who pontificated & demanded release from the side lines have no idea just what a scheming rancid & ruthless Kaffir he is.

[sweetassugar69]

@Ollfie i understand your thinking but there are always 2 sides to every story oll but only yesterday i talked to a client who was raised in SA up to her early teens abd being told by her parents and friends not to swim in the same swimming pool as a black person because the water is dirty !! thats very bad !!

[meteoraleo79]

INCREDIBILE...DA BRIVIDI....GRANDE NELSON!!!!!!!

[YolandaBru999]

Fantastic!!!!!!

[claudiomoreno]

la mejor banda del mundo ; the best band of the world, i loved.

CLAUDIO CHILE

[erehwyrevekool]

Finally declared "Mandela Day" on the 18th of July!!!!!

[dourev]

très bon solo de guitare un son unique

[vermodertefee]

Mel Gaynor really rocks !!!! I love these drums !!!

[joseluis100porcien]

Mandela fue el prisionero número 466/64 durante 27 años en precarias condiciones. El gobierno de Sudáfrica rechazó todas las peticiones de que fuera puesto en libertad. Mandela se convirtió en un símbolo de la lucha contra el apartheid dentro y fuera del país, una figura legendaria que representaba la falta de libertad de todos los hombres negros sudafricanos. GRAN CANCION PARA UN GRAN HOMBRE

[hobdinobdibonk]

brings back memories waiting all day for the minds only to have their set cut short but most there were minds fans BRILLIANT

[chamillionaire96]

this is music. Simple Minds always and 4ever. From Spain

[sweetassugar69]

charlie fuckin burchill ! say no more

[amozartii]

SImple Minds....just classic!!!

[crashnburn240]

As for the song, I wonder if Jim Kerr will one day write a song about Khalid Sheikh Mohammad while he's serving his time on Death Row.

y ? he only deserves to rot in hell lol he had people decapeted nice bloke

[caioNovoaabr]

esse e o exemplo a ser seguido o exemplo da paz entre as raças

[Hemulen40]

A worthy tribute !

[sibari76]

great Burchill!

[lucacaporale]

A Great Performance Beautiful Song!

Nelson Mandela is the best!

[charliechutney]

Thought JK did well here, considering he'd just had a blazing row with Peter Gabriel about how long SM's set should last.

As for the song, I wonder if Jim Kerr will one day write a song about Khalid Sheikh Mohammad while he's serving his time on Death Row.

[HOLLYWOODCASANOVA]

»QUEEN=MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HOLLYWOODCASANOVA]

»QUEEN IS BACK!!!!!

[flevobirdy]

ik ben 46 nu ..... maar als ik dit weer zie ben ik rond de 25 ...... ouder nu , maar nog steeds dezelfde qua geest , ik vind dat iedereen gelijk moet zijn .....dit is mede gekomen door dit prachtige concert om een grote HELD , NELSON MANDELA zijn waardige vrijheid terug te geven !! en ..... er zijn maar weinig van deze helden , wees er zuinig op n....

[decomnion]

muito bom ... thanks johanna

[johanna794]

heel mooi johanna

[MARAZUL333]

Exellent!!!

Thanks Johanna.

SOLE

[lou0713]

best slide guitar ever! Free Mandela! SM rules! God save Rock and Roll!

[jmzhn]

@lou0713

Sorry, this isnt rock and roll my friend

[nicholasusansky]

i was there. just a 16 year old kid. i didnt even know who neil young was!!!

[BebeTheGreat]

It's to easy for people that do not live in SA to say that Mandela was a hero. He had the dream, but sadly he did not have the political backbone needed to rebuild a nation that was in total chaos after Apartheid.

[erongen1]

Ok, but would have done it better?? Mandela was the right man on the right moment. Nobody else could have make he transition from Dirctorial regime to democraty, Ok, the African way as European / Amercan system doesn't work for Africa. Not now, but fight for the beatiful country and not be the foolish "leaver" who escapes oversease.

[pradoisdead]

Solo es una gran banda dando una gran actuación, lo demás no me importa

[elisaloba]

beautiful when rocks helps liberty and tolerance five stars they rocks

[etoiledeloise]

Yeeeesssss !!!!!!

[Nudelsz]

god save the world from those marxists

[dado1310]

Vrh,ljudi izuvaju!

[sovietkong]

GO CHARLIE GO!

[simopalmiandre]

god save the world from those anti-marxists that don't understand anything .

[hobdinobdibonk]

this song only took 24 hours to write

[totoscope]

God save South Africa form those marxists-leninist idiots and disgised racists...

[totoscope]

And God save Europe from it's idiots marxists-materialis..

[jurassian]

bogdun misalovitchska routmoul

[davidgilmour22]

grea great song.... beautifull... this band was so good and they diserve to have had more attention than other stupid and senseless bands.

[chamillionaire96]

@davidgilmour22 you're right Simple Minds must concretrate more attencion 'cause their job and last albums are simply great. Look at U2 for example his last album (No line on the...) is definitely boring but it's U2, the people don't know what it's really the good music. Greetings from Spain. SIMPLE MINDS just... THE BEST

[DaveCrozz]

@davidgilmour22 thats the sad thing about music now dont care about making grate music like this just wont to make loads of cash or money

[dynamogers]

How much of a plonker is Kerr?? Well seen he's one of the darkside.....

Great song though, still poignant in the present as tyrants and corrupt religions trample the masses.

[chefblanc]

i soppose we are plonkers then. at least you see the effect of the song

[lbj31]

Amazing live, Mandela Day rocks !

[aegina79]

best minds song,best perfomance.........just great

[thegreathouse19]

Would love to see this line up of musicans again for Simple Minds. Malcolm Foster, Lisa Germano! The Street Fighting Years were great, albeit I believe the best is yet to come in their 30th year.

[philbuoy]

My first gig 1987 cash for Kids £7 for a ticket Wow.Rocked me out !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[starlightdu61]

waoh !

[S25TSCLCL09]

semplicemente magnifica!

[DaniMoFo]

One of the best and tremendous songs in our time. Timeless.

[Daansaid]

magnificent, classic minds, absolutly brilliant, how I miss the guys and the early days Barrowland concerts.

[bish789123]

Just seen this live at Mandelas birthday, thanks for this song and thank you to Mandela for all he has done.

[bornfromashes2008]

happy birthday mandela

[spikelive]

j just saw simple minds on tv show for nelson mandela bir thday!

let me say j'm happy cause j saw mel gaynor on drums!

anyway it will be never enough my gratitude to simple minds for what their meaning in my life!

thank you jim,thank u charlie!!

[agromuse]

Simple minds an AWESOME band!!

[Mikrothivean]

what a fine song!!!!

[pertuk]

This live version of this song was better than the one they released as a single (IMHO). ThanX fot the upload!

[ngdreamer1]

thanks so SIMPLE MINDS...........LOVE THEM

[marksimo67]

So glad to find this on here! I was right at the front with a flag and remember it like it was yesterday. This song, especially Charlies guitar solo still makes every hair on my body stand on end, just shear brilliance!

[jjboerstra]

Agree with you there about Charlie ;-)

[jediray77]

charlie n lisa at the end do it for me!! think annie lennox wrote a song but didn't perform it in 88

[JusticePublique]

How to be a rebel with a black suit....

[yvestime]

FREEDOM IS THE ANSWER TO THE WAR !!!

free life for all people of the earth

remember it !!!!

thanks to simple minds

[jimkville]

Beautiful and magnificent performance!!The greatest LIVE BAND EVER!!!!Thanx for posting this!!!

[class66]

yes wot a performance , def the minds at there technical and artistic best, and at a period during which they changed the World, make no mistake about that , one of the most influential bands of our time

[sanctifyyourself]

love jim and charlie they are good persons!!!! thanks for posting

[dbadz]

This is actually the second gig at wembley celevrating the release of Mandela in 1990,I was at this gig and the first one in 1988 when this song was first performed , the song was written espcially for the first gig .All artists were supposed to have written a song for the event (1988) but it was only simple minds who carried it through and wrote "Mandela day".It is of course on the album street fighting years

[Tornfreedom]

@dbadz Thaks, for someone actually telling us when this was performed!. I have the 1988 one on C90 tape when it was simultaneously broadcast on TV and Radio 2 VHF, I was experimenting with a new stereo decoder that very day. Also Tracy Chapman and others, Dire Straits?. Wonder how much my quality tape has faded... I remember that day and the whole concert so well.

[Muddyjam70]

@Tornfreedom I'm too......:-))) great festival

[redel67]

long live simple minds superb

[tigresainlove]

Very good the video!!!

[kieranbegley]

not many bands could put a song like this together in 24hrs like they did.Charlies guitar at the beginning is brilliant,he's so underated

[cristianefofinha]

MUITO BOM!!!! I LOVE YOU ESTA MUSIC...

[sweetassugar69]

i was there! they are the masters! long live the minds

[brianf72]

Been waiting for this for ages. Thanks very much. This is what YouTube is about for me. Being able to see the stuff you taped off the TV years ago but haven't seen for ages. Keep it coming and thanks again.