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- Artist: Simple Minds
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- Release Date: 1987 05
- Total Time: 82:22
- Type: Live
- Genre: Rock
Review
Recorded primarily at Le Zenith in Paris on the last date of a world tour in August 1986 and released as a stopgap to satiate fans while the group spent another two years crafting its studio follow-up to Once Upon a Time, Simple Minds' double-album Live in the City of Light was a good summation of the band's rise to worldwide fame between 1982-1985. Except for the 1981 "Love Song" (paired in a medley with covers of Artists United Against Apartheid's "Sun City" and Sly & the Family Stone's "Dance to the Music") and the inevitable movie song hit "Don't You Forget About Me," all the selections came from New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84), Sparkle in the Rain, and Once Upon a Time, and they were played in a heavily echoed, big-production style in keeping with Simple Minds' status as stadium-fillers. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Ghostdancing (Lyrics) | Simple Minds | Simple Minds | (7:22) |
| Big Sleep (Lyrics) | Simple Minds | Simple Minds | (4:27) |
| Waterfront (Lyrics) | Simple Minds | Simple Minds | (5:21) |
| Promised You a Miracle (Lyrics) | Simple Minds | Simple Minds | (4:38) |
| Someone Somewhere in Summertime | Simple Minds | Simple Minds | (5:59) |
| Oh Jungleland (Lyrics) | Simple Minds | Simple Minds | (6:35) |
| Alive and Kicking (Lyrics) | Mick MacNeil, |
Simple Minds | (6:27) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Don't You Forget About Me | Keith Forsey, |
Simple Minds | (6:37) |
| Once Upon a Time (Lyrics) | Simple Minds | Simple Minds | (6:06) |
| Book of Brilliant Things (Lyrics) | Simple Minds | Simple Minds | (4:53) |
| East at Easter (Lyrics) | Simple Minds | Simple Minds | (4:20) |
| Sanctify Yourself (Lyrics) | Simple Minds | Simple Minds | (7:06) |
| Love Song/Sun City/Dance to the Music | Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart, Simple Minds, Steven Van Zandt | Simple Minds | (7:02) |
| New Gold Dream | Simple Minds | Simple Minds | (5:31) |
