Rock icon Jim Kerr reckoned there was as much likelihood of him becoming the first Scotchman to orbit the moon when he first reached for the stars in the late 1970s.
So he finds it hard to believe Simple Minds are still Alive and Kicking exactly 45 years now.
Jim and a bunch of schoolmates had formed their first short-lived punk outfit Johnny & The Self Abusers in early 1977, with them then morphing into Simple Minds the following year.
