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Band members at this concert:

Jim Kerr - Lead vocals
Charlie Burchill - Electric & acoustic guitar, Violin, Saxophone, Keyboards, Occasional backing vocals
Ged Grimes - Bass guitar, Backing vocals
Andy Gillespie - Keyboards, Backing vocals
Mel Gaynor - Drums, Percussion, Backing vocals
Sarah Brown - Backing vocals, Occasional lead vocals
Catherine AD - Keyboards, Backing vocals, Occasional lead vocals

"Alive and Kicking" is a song released by the Scottish rock band Simple Minds as the lead single from their seventh album, Once Upon a Time. The song reached number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number four in Canada; it peaked within the top five of several European countries including Italy, where the song reached number one.

Simple Minds were working in America when they came up with the music for this song. The jaunty tune inspired a similarly upbeat lyric from Jim Kerr, who in an interview said: "We were in New York, it was summer, Manhattan. We could feel the band was really on the verge of something, and I think that positivity and that idea of hope formed the lyrics."

Robin Clark sang backing vocals (credited as "Additional Lead Singer") on the track. The American vocalist is the wife of one of David Bowie's favorite guitarists: Carlos Alomar. Clark has also worked with the Thin White Duke, including on his Young Americans album.

The music video was helmed by the Polish director Zbigniew Rybczynski, who also worked on the "All The Things She Said" clip as well as videos by Yoko Ono, The Alan Parsons Project and Lou Reed. It was filmed in the northern Catskill Mountains with a crane camera getting some impressive panoramic shots of the area. The waterfall is Kaaterskill Falls.

Simple Minds enjoyed a few more decades of success in the UK, but never had another Top 10 in America.

Both "Alive and Kicking" and its predecessor "Don't You (Forget About Me)" end in a sing-along, a trick Kerr says they borrowed from The Beatles' "Hey Jude." "It's almost like a hymn at the beginning," he reflected to Billboard about "Alive and Kicking." "And just when you think you've heard it all, the 'la la la' comes in at the end - which, coincidentally, 'Don't You' had, too." "The great thing about those choruses is anyone in the world can sing "la la la,'" Kerr added with a chuckle. "You can sing it in Japan, you can sing it in Oslo. That's the most intelligent lyric we ever wrote. Think about it. The whole world can sing that."

You turn me on
You lift me up
Like the sweetest cup I'd share with you
You lift me up
Don't you ever stop, I'm here with you
Now it's all or nothing
'Cause you say you'll follow through
You follow me, and I, I, I follow you

What you gonna do when things go wrong?
What you gonna do when it all cracks up?
What you gonna do when the love burns down?
What you gonna do when the flames go up?
Who is gonna come and turn the tide?
What's it gonna take to make a dream survive?
Who's got the touch to calm the storm inside?
Who's gonna save you?

Alive and kicking
Stay until your love is
Alive and kicking
Stay 'til your love is
Until your love is, alive

Oh
You lift me up
To the crucial top, so I can see
Oh you lead me on
till the feelings come and the lights that shine on
But if that don't mean nothing
Like if someday it should fall through
You'll take me home where the magic's from
And I'll be with you

What you gonna do when things go wrong?
What you gonna do when it all cracks up?
What you gonna do when the love burns down?
What you gonna do when the flames go up?
Who is gonna come and turn the tide?
What's it gonna take to make a dream survive?
Who's got the touch to calm the storm inside?
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
In the final seconds who's gonna save you?

Ooh oh, oh oh
Alive and kicking
Oh stay until your love is, love is
Alive and kicking
Ooh oh, oh oh
Alive and kicking
Oh stay until your love is, love is
Alive and kicking

Ooh oh
Alive and kicking
Stay until your love is
Alive and kicking, oh

Stay until your love is
Alive and kicking, oh

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