"We’re thinking, why would we do someone else’s song? Why can’t you take one of our songs?": How Simple Minds' Don't You (Forget About Me) eventually became the perfect meeting of worlds – but two other stars turned it down first

Ally Sheedy and Molly Ringwald in a scene from the film 'The Breakfast Club', 1985.

There is a select echelon of songs in popular music that are synonymous with the cinematic moments they soundtrack, where they become eternally intertwined in the mind's eye… and ear. Case in point: Don't You (Forget About Me). It bookends one of the key coming-of-age films of all time, 1985 classic The Breakfast Club – a reflection of director John Hughes keen ear for the then-emerging new wave. It's almost inconceivable that Simple Minds wanted nothing to do with it at first.

But take away hindsight, from singer Jim Kerr's perspective at the time, it was actually understandable.