Simple Minds are the subject of a new photobook which captures the Glasgow band on tour in the early ’80s.

Hanging Around Books’ first release (HA001) “So Far, So Distant and So Long Ago” features photographs of Jim Kerr and co from September 1980.

The images were taken by Ronnie Gurr, at the time with the band’s record label, in the then East and West Berlin and by the Berlin Wall. Kerr supplies the book’s foreword.

The band were at the time on their day off from supporting Peter Gabriel on his European tour.

The A5, 36-page book comes as a limited edition of 250 copies.

Other bands to be featured in the series include The Clash, U2 and Stiff Little Fingers.

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