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</style><table class="infobox vevent haudio"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary album" style="font-style: italic; color: inherit; background-color: lightsteelblue; font-size: 125%;">Street Fighting Years</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: lightsteelblue"><a href="Album" title="Album">Studio album</a> by <div class="contributor" style="display:inline"><a href="Simple_Minds" title="Simple Minds">Simple Minds</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data published">2 May 1989<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recorded</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">March 1988 – March 1989</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Music_genre" title="Music genre">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist"><a href="Pop_rock" title="Pop rock">Pop rock</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data">61:13</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Record_label" title="Record label">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist">

<ul><li><a href="Virgin_Records" title="Virgin Records">Virgin</a></li>

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<ul><li><a href="Trevor_Horn" title="Trevor Horn">Trevor Horn</a></li>

<li><a href="Stephen_Lipson" title="Stephen Lipson">Stephen Lipson</a></li></ul>

</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: lightsteelblue"><a href="Simple_Minds" title="Simple Minds">Simple Minds</a> chronology</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">

<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em .2em 0"><a href="Live_in_the_City_of_Light" title="Live in the City of Light">Live in the City of Light</a> (1987)

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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em"><a href="Themes_%E2%80%93_Volume_1%3A_March_79%E2%80%93April_82" title="Themes – Volume 1: March 79–April 82">Themes – Volume 1: March 79–April 82</a> (1990)

</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: lightsteelblue;color:inherit;">Simple Minds studio albums chronology</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">

<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em .2em 0"><a href="Once_Upon_a_Time_(Simple_Minds_album)" title="Once Upon a Time (Simple Minds album)">Once Upon a Time</a> (1985)

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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em"><a href="Real_Life_(Simple_Minds_album)" title="Real Life (Simple Minds album)">Real Life</a> (1991)

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</tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: lightsteelblue;color:inherit;"><a href="Single_(music)" title="Single (music)">Singles</a> from Street Fighting Years </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="text-align:left">

<ol><li>"<a href="Belfast_Child" title="Belfast Child">Belfast Child</a>" Released: 6 February 1989</li>

<li>"<a href="This_Is_Your_Land" title="This Is Your Land">This Is Your Land</a>" Released: 10 April 1989</li>

<li>"<a href="Kick_It_In" title="Kick It In">Kick It In</a>" Released: 17 July 1989</li>

<li>"Let It All Come Down" Released: 27 November 1989<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></li></ol>

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Street Fighting Years is the eighth studio album by Scottish rock band <a href="Simple_Minds" title="Simple Minds">Simple Minds</a>, released in May 1989 by record label <a href="Virgin_Records" title="Virgin Records">Virgin Records</a> worldwide apart from the US, where it was released by <a href="A%26M_Records" title="A&M Records">A&M</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ALL-3">[3]</a> Produced by <a href="Trevor_Horn" title="Trevor Horn">Trevor Horn</a> and <a href="Stephen_Lipson" title="Stephen Lipson">Stephen Lipson</a>, the album reached the top of the <a href="UK_Albums_Chart" title="UK Albums Chart">UK Albums Chart</a>.<a href="#cite_note-UK_Charts-4">[4]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2></div>

Produced by <a href="Trevor_Horn" title="Trevor Horn">Trevor Horn</a> and <a href="Stephen_Lipson" title="Stephen Lipson">Stephen Lipson</a>, it was a major stylistic departure from the previous album, 1985's <a href="Once_Upon_a_Time_(Simple_Minds_album)" title="Once Upon a Time (Simple Minds album)">Once Upon a Time</a>. While still maintaining the epic <a href="Arena_rock" title="Arena rock">arena rock</a> sense of scale and drama which the band had developed since the mid-1980s, Street Fighting Years also moved away from the American <a href="Soul_music" title="Soul music">soul</a> and <a href="Gospel_music" title="Gospel music">gospel</a> influences of its predecessor in favour of soundtrack atmospherics and a new incorporation of <a href="Acoustic_music" title="Acoustic music">acoustic</a> and <a href="Celtic_music" title="Celtic music">Celtic</a>/<a href="Folk_music" title="Folk music">folk music</a>-related ingredients including <a href="Fretless_bass" title="Fretless bass">fretless bass</a>, <a href="Slide_guitar" title="Slide guitar">slide guitar</a> and <a href="Accordion" title="Accordion">accordion</a>. The lyrics built on the more political themes which the band had introduced with "<a href="Ghost_Dancing" class="mw-redirect" title="Ghost Dancing">Ghost Dancing</a>", moving away from the impressionistic or spiritual concerns of earlier 1980s Simple Minds songs and covering topics including the <a href="Poll_tax_(Great_Britain)" title="Poll tax (Great Britain)">Poll Tax</a>, the <a href="Soweto" title="Soweto">Soweto</a> townships, the <a href="Berlin_Wall" title="Berlin Wall">Berlin Wall</a> and the stationing of nuclear submarines on the Scottish coast.

The album marked the beginning of a period of substantial personnel change for Simple Minds. Keyboard player/composer/founder member <a href="Mick_MacNeil" title="Mick MacNeil">Mick MacNeil</a> has subsequently mentioned that "Jim (Kerr) had already started talking about making changes" and the lack of equality and unity within the band's ranks soon became evident. Most of the initial writing and direction-setting sessions had only involved the trio of remaining original members - Kerr, MacNeil and guitarist <a href="Charlie_Burchill" title="Charlie Burchill">Charlie Burchill</a> - without the involvement of either Giblin or drummer <a href="Mel_Gaynor" title="Mel Gaynor">Mel Gaynor</a>, both of whom had remained in London during the Scottish residential sessions. Subsequent disagreements regarding both the recording process and the direction in which Trevor Horn was coaxing the band would lead to the temporary departure of one band member and the permanent departure of another.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Band_relations">Band relations</h2></div>

Despite having made significant contributions (including introducing the band to <a href="Double_bass" title="Double bass">double bass</a> on the title track and writing the ballad "Let It All Come Down"), John Giblin left Simple Minds in July 1988, halfway through the Street Fighting Years sessions. According to Kerr, Giblin unplugged his bass and walked out of both the sessions and the band without a word following a culminating disagreement with Trevor Horn. Kerr later noted that "John and Trevor didn't quite hit it off, I don't think, and John didn't quite like Trevor's instructions" and admitted "it had been a long, protracted recording process. And then there was one point when John certainly wasn't there."<a href="#cite_note-sfydeluxe-5">[5]</a> The band's previous bass player <a href="Derek_Forbes" title="Derek Forbes">Derek Forbes</a> has hinted that ultimately Giblin simply "didn’t fit in" with the band; and thirty-one years later, Kerr would reflect "John was seven years older than us and I suspect we were quite brattish around him. He’d done so much more than us in who he’d worked with and he was a lone wolf who didn't say much. John’s stoicism added to his charm, but we always knew he was never going to sign up to Simple Minds' youth club."<a href="#cite_note-classicpopmag2020-6">[6]</a> Following Giblin's departure, Stephen Lipson played the remaining bass guitar parts on the album.

For similar reasons, Gaynor was sidelined during the album sessions after disagreements with Horn. Kerr recalls "Trevor was trying to get Mel to do more than just 'the Mel thing'. Mel is brilliant. With certain tracks, like "Mandela Day", you're looking for something softer, perhaps. Trevor wanted him to be more diverse. Technology and drum machines were becoming a part of modern records. We always wanted to incorporate both. I remember them running out of patience with each other... Trevor really tests you. I mean, he'll go, 'That's great, got it - now give me something I'd never expect.' And I don't think Trevor felt he was getting that from Mel, I think he felt he was getting the big thud the whole time, and it worked on some tracks, but maybe not on others."<a href="#cite_note-sfydeluxe-5">[5]</a> Gaynor was eventually demoted to session player status, with much of the drumming in the studio being performed by <a href="Manu_Katch%C3%A9" title="Manu Katché">Manu Katché</a> (from <a href="Peter_Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel">Peter Gabriel</a>'s band) and with former <a href="The_Police" title="The Police">Police</a> drummer <a href="Stewart_Copeland" title="Stewart Copeland">Stewart Copeland</a> contributing some drum programming.

Despite the upheavals, Kerr would later defend Horn's various approaches. "[Trevor would] convince you anything was possible. If you think of Trevor's music, so much of his budget goes into one or two big songs that the rest of the record ends up getting done pretty quick. There's a bit of that in Street Fighting Years, but mostly he'd kick the tyres of a song over and over, trying it a dozen different ways, until something was there."<a href="#cite_note-classicpopmag2020-6">[6]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recording">Recording</h2></div>

The music and themes on Street Fighting Years emerged as a reaction to Simple Minds' accession to the role of stadium rock band after years of effort. Kerr would later reflect "we’d had success beyond our belief and we were just on the verge of getting bored with our own thing. I don’t think we quite knew that, and we certainly didn’t talk about it, and it’s inevitable after ten years that it happened." After many years of lyrics which were intellectual, impressionistic or emotional in nature, Kerr had also decided that it was time to start writing about the outside world and directly political subjects, rather than his own emotional landscape (partially due to his ongoing divorce). "The last thing I wanted to write about was myself. I didn’t want to sit licking my own wounds... The word ‘activists’ might be pushing it, but we were from that background. It was inevitable the strains of that would come out in our music."<a href="#cite_note-classicpopmag2020-6">[6]</a>

As part of the intended changes, the band chose to work with the production team of Horn and Lipson, who between them had most recently been working with <a href="Pet_Shop_Boys" title="Pet Shop Boys">Pet Shop Boys</a>, <a href="Frankie_Goes_to_Hollywood" title="Frankie Goes to Hollywood">Frankie Goes to Hollywood</a>, <a href="Propaganda_(band)" title="Propaganda (band)">Propaganda</a> (using several former Simple Minds bandmembers) and <a href="Grace_Jones" title="Grace Jones">Grace Jones</a>. Although the results were sometimes inspired, the process was not without difficulties, with Kerr having to have an emergency meeting with Horn after six months of very slow work. "We saw hitching our wagon to Trevor and Stephen’s Fantasia production world as like strapping on rocket engines...(but) before he came along, Trevor told me, ‘Jim, one of the reasons we wanted to work with you is we’re bored of our thing,’” recalls Jim. “So there we were, two camps bored of their sound, looking for the other to help. I just thought, ‘Oh, for fuck’s sake!’... I'm sure we didn't give Trevor and Stephen the easiest time, and it says something they didn't work together again after Street Fighting Years. We were a bit dead on our feet and it's still a frustration (that) that atmosphere was there."<a href="#cite_note-classicpopmag2020-6">[6]</a>

The album was written and recorded during residential sessions at multiple locations - the band's own new Bonnie Wee Studio near <a href="Loch_Earn" title="Loch Earn">Loch Earn</a> in the Scottish Highlands; at a house in rural Glenstriven on the shores of <a href="Loch_Striven" title="Loch Striven">Loch Striven</a> (on Scotland's <a href="Cowal" title="Cowal">Cowal</a> peninsula on the West Coast); at bass player <a href="John_Giblin" title="John Giblin">John Giblin</a>'s own Barwell Court Studios in south London; and at Horn's <a href="Sarm_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Sarm West">Sarm West</a> studios in west London. The earliest Bonnie Wee sessions took place before the studio had been fully built, and were open-ended explorations of instrumental ideas; with the band, at one point, considering launching an instrumental side project called Aurora Borealis. What would become the new album's title track emerged during these sessions, and set another stylistic hallmark for the record - a break from the rhythm-section driven work of earlier album up until and including Once Upon a Time.

Having previously resisted the Scottish folk music which he'd grown up with, Kerr was won back over to elements of it by Giblin, whom he'd heard playing the traditional Irish folk song "<a href="She_Moved_Through_The_Fair" class="mw-redirect" title="She Moved Through The Fair">She Moved Through The Fair</a>" on piano one evening. Kerr: "John is a deep guy, which was reflected in the music he played. I was captivated by this Celtic piece and, when he finished, I said to John, ‘Wow! When did you write that?’ and John replied, ‘About 200 years ago…’"<a href="#cite_note-classicpopmag2020-6">[6]</a> Horn had already been pushing Kerr, without success, to work on "a Celtic song", and Kerr was now moved to seek out various covers of "She Moved Through the Fair", which the band would later refashion into "Belfast Child". Despite Kerr's initial misgivings about potentially producing a "mawkish, tokenistic and trite" adaptation, he became very proud of the song after its subsequent success as a single: "Am I still glad I did it?’,... too right I am. To have the balls to mess around with that big a sacred cow of the folk world? Great! The folkies were going, ‘You can’t fucking do that to "She Moved Through the Fair!", when the folk world changes lyrics and melodies around forever. I thought, ‘Give me a break, you’re only jealous you hadn’t thought of it first.’"<a href="#cite_note-classicpopmag2020-6">[6]</a>

The song "This is Your Land" was written early in the Street Fighting Years sessions but was one of the last to be completed, since Kerr was unsure of how to finish it. After Kerr sang a verse using a <a href="Lou_Reed" title="Lou Reed">Lou Reed</a> impression, Horn suggested bringing in the actual Lou Reed for a guest spot. Initially intimidated by Reed's reputation as "the world's biggest curmudgeon", the band agreed to the suggestion, with Horn making the actual approach.<a href="#cite_note-classicpopmag2020-6">[6]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Release">Release</h2></div>

Released in May 1989, the album became the band's fourth number one in the UK<a href="#cite_note-UK_Charts-4">[4]</a> on the back of the chart-topping single "<a href="Belfast_Child" title="Belfast Child">Belfast Child</a>", which had been released three months earlier. "<a href="This_Is_Your_Land" title="This Is Your Land">This Is Your Land</a>" was chosen as the lead single for the US, but with guest vocals from the band's idol <a href="Lou_Reed" title="Lou Reed">Lou Reed</a>, the single failed to make a mark on the pop charts. The album performed relatively poorly in the United States and produced no hit singles.

At the time of release for Street Fighting Years, the credits for the album suggested that Simple Minds had officially become a trio of Kerr, MacNeil and Burchill (all previous albums had credited the band as a full quintet). Unlike Giblin, Gaynor would rejoin the live band for the Street Fighting Years tour, and would remain an on/off member of the band in subsequent years. Malcolm Foster (formerly with <a href="The_Pretenders" title="The Pretenders">The Pretenders</a>) was hired as the new bass guitarist. Having grown unhappy with constant touring and other changes, and wanting to spend more time with his family, MacNeil would abruptly leave the band at the conclusion of the tour. Kerr and Burchill would remain the only official full band members from then on.

Simple Minds released on 6 March 2020 a 4-CD Super Deluxe box set edition of Street Fighting Years on UMC / <a href="Virgin_Records" title="Virgin Records">Virgin Domestic</a>, including the original album remastered at <a href="Abbey_Road_Studios" title="Abbey Road Studios">Abbey Road Studios</a>, a CD of B-sides, edits and 12″ remixes, a 2-CD unissued <a href="Verona" title="Verona">Verona</a> live show from 1989 plus brand new book including a new interview with <a href="Trevor_Horn" title="Trevor Horn">Trevor Horn</a>. Also available as 2-LP, 2-CD or remastered single CD.<a href="#cite_note-amazon.co.uk_Simple_Minds_Street_Fighting_Years_Super_Deluxe-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-simpleminds.com_Simple_Minds_Street_Fighting_Years_Super_Deluxe-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-loudersound.com_Simple_Minds_Street_Fighting_Years_Super_Deluxe-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-classicpopmag.com_Simple_Minds_Street_Fighting_Years_Super_Deluxe-10">[10]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_reception">Critical reception</h2></div>

<table class="wikitable floatright" style="width:24.2em;font-size:88%;text-align:center;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em;padding:0;border-spacing:0"><caption style="font-size:115%">Professional ratings</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;color:#202122;background:#d1dbdf;font-size:100%">Review scores</th></tr><tr><th scope="col">Source</th><th scope="col">Rating</th></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><a href="AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><a href="#cite_note-ALL-3">[3]</a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><a href="NME" title="NME">NME</a></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle">7/10</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><a href="Q_(magazine)" title="Q (magazine)">Q</a></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><a href="#cite_note-Q-12">[12]</a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><a href="Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><a href="#cite_note-RS-11">[11]</a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><a href="Smash_Hits" title="Smash Hits">Smash Hits</a></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle">6/10<a href="#cite_note-SH-13">[13]</a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><a href="Martin_C._Strong" title="Martin C. Strong">Martin C. Strong</a></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle">5/10<a href="#cite_note-Martin-14">[14]</a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><a href="Sunday_Mail_(Scotland)" title="Sunday Mail (Scotland)">Sunday Mail</a></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle">very favourable<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

Street Fighting Years received sharply divided reviews, with initial critical opinion being mostly favourable in the UK but less so in the US, where the album was much less of a commercial success.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> In his written commentary for the sleeve notes in the band's compilation album <a href="Glittering_Prize_81/92" title="Glittering Prize 81/92">Glittering Prize 81/92</a>, Brian Hogg described Street Fighting Years as arguably "the group's most controversial release."<a href="#cite_note-Hogg-17">[17]</a> <a href="Jim_Kerr" title="Jim Kerr">Jim Kerr</a> remembered the album thus: "Every song seemed to be about conflict, and it describes this age of chaos, the battle to try and remain intact with all this hurricane around us."<a href="#cite_note-Hogg-17">[17]</a>

In Britain, the album received glowing praise, including a rare five-star rating, from <a href="Q_(magazine)" title="Q (magazine)">Q</a> magazine; David Sinclair wrote that they had finally produced a record to justify their reputation, and praising the album's mostly quiet dynamic: "Even when the music takes off into the vast dramatic sweeps that will roll like huge breakers to the back of the stadiums of Europe this summer, there is little that could fairly be described as bluster. <a href="Simple_Minds" title="Simple Minds">Simple Minds</a> have done more than make a landmark album. They have assumed the mantle of authority."<a href="#cite_note-Q-12">[12]</a> Ian Gittins, writing for <a href="Melody_Maker" title="Melody Maker">Melody Maker</a>, also commented on the grandiose nature of the album, comparing it to <a href="U2" title="U2">U2</a>'s <a href="Rattle_and_Hum" title="Rattle and Hum">Rattle and Hum</a> but more artistically successful: "Unlike their true soulmates, <a href="U2" title="U2">U2</a>, the Minds haven't produced a turkey of the first degree...<a href="Simple_Minds" title="Simple Minds">Simple Minds</a> are once again approaching the art of making music, breaking a silence, with wonder."<a href="#cite_note-Mel-18">[18]</a> Although he went on to criticize the tracks "Soul Crying Out", "Take a Step Back", "<a href="Kick_It_In" title="Kick It In">Kick It In</a>", and "<a href="Biko_(song)" title="Biko (song)">Biko</a>" as "flatulent bluster", Gittins nonetheless concluded that the album's "expansive, flushed music" was "huge, but it's rarely hollow."<a href="#cite_note-Mel-18">[18]</a> Mike Soutar, meanwhile, wrote in <a href="Smash_Hits" title="Smash Hits">Smash Hits</a> that the album was "packed with the kind of crowd-rousing flag hoisting anthems that everyone expects from the Minds", but thought the song's individual lengths meant that while they would "probably sound epic played live, they'll probably drive you quite mad in the comfort of your own bedroom."<a href="#cite_note-SH-13">[13]</a>

Less positive reviews, however, came from U.S. publications such as <a href="Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a> whose writer Mark Coleman criticised the band for what the reviewer considered to be political vacuity: "Street Fighting Years stands as an unfortunate example of politicized rock at its most simple-minded."<a href="#cite_note-RS-11">[11]</a> He also opined that the album's production was too clean, describing it as "so studio smooth that every song – whether it's a chugging, multi-layered call to arms ("Take a Step Back") or a floating, ambient meditation ("Let It All Come Down") – virtually slides out of the speakers."<a href="#cite_note-RS-11">[11]</a> <a href="CMJ" title="CMJ">CMJ</a> took a more positive view, admitting that Street Fighting Years "lacks the inspirational anthems of the <a href="Sparkle_in_the_Rain" title="Sparkle in the Rain">Sparkle in the Rain</a> era" but "focuses attention on the passion of the lyrics, which have a political awareness and social consciousness that keeps those spots where the music falls short up on a high level."<a href="#cite_note-CMJ-19">[19]</a>

The album's grandiose, stadium-oriented stylistic departure from previous albums has since proved controversial with critics. <a href="Martin_C._Strong" title="Martin C. Strong">Martin C. Strong</a>, writing in The Essential Rock Discography, remarked that reviewers "didn't really stick the knife in until the release of the overblown "<a href="Belfast_Child" title="Belfast Child">Belfast Child</a>", a U.K. No. 1 despite its snoozeworthy meandering and vague political agenda. The accompanying album, Street Fighting Years (1989) brought more of the same, although it cemented <a href="Simple_Minds" title="Simple Minds">Simple Minds</a>' position among the coffee table elite."<a href="#cite_note-Martin-14">[14]</a> Meanwhile, in a retrospective review for <a href="AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a>, Tom Demalon described Street Fighting Years as "an artistic and elegant album that might lack immediate choruses but draws in the listener" and containing "some truly lovely moments".<a href="#cite_note-ALL-3">[3]</a> A review of the Themes box-set released in June 2008 from <a href="Q_(magazine)" title="Q (magazine)">Q</a> magazine discussed, "if at times the preciousness of the later work sets the teeth on edge, the sheer musical skill and undoubted power of the band makes up for it", praising the "brilliant atmosphere <a href="Simple_Minds" title="Simple Minds">Simple Minds</a> made their own."<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> Music critic <a href="David_Stubbs" title="David Stubbs">David Stubbs</a>, in a review of the compilation <a href="Glittering_Prize_81/92" title="Glittering Prize 81/92">Glittering Prize 81/92</a>, mourned what he found to be the "dramatic artistic decline (and parallel commercial rise)" of the band: "As <a href="Jim_Kerr" title="Jim Kerr">Jim Kerr</a> sank further into mega-stardom, the music suffered further as he indulged in piously cumbersome ballads like "<a href="Belfast_Child" title="Belfast Child">Belfast Child</a>" and "Mandela Day".<a href="#cite_note-Glit-21">[21]</a> John Aizlewood of <a href="Q_(magazine)" title="Q (magazine)">Q</a> disagreed, saying, "there was much to commend on Street Fighting Years and its follow-up, <a href="Real_Life_(Simple_Minds_album)" title="Real Life (Simple Minds album)">Real Life</a>".<a href="#cite_note-Glit-21">[21]</a>

In 1989 <a href="Q_(magazine)" title="Q (magazine)">Q</a> magazine selected Street Fighting Years as one of the top recordings of the year.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Track_listing">Track listing</h2></div>

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</style><div class="track-listing">All tracks are written by Simple Minds except where indicated.<table class="tracklist"><caption>Standard edition</caption><tbody><tr><th class="tracklist-number-header" scope="col"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr></th><th scope="col" style="width:60%">Title</th><th scope="col" style="width:40%">Writer(s)</th><th class="tracklist-length-header" scope="col">Length</th></tr><tr><th id="track1" scope="row">1.</th><td>"Street Fighting Years"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">6:26</td></tr><tr><th id="track2" scope="row">2.</th><td>"Soul Crying Out"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">6:07</td></tr><tr><th id="track3" scope="row">3.</th><td>"Wall of Love"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">5:20</td></tr><tr><th id="track4" scope="row">4.</th><td>"<a href="This_Is_Your_Land" title="This Is Your Land">This Is Your Land</a>"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">6:22</td></tr><tr><th id="track5" scope="row">5.</th><td>"Take a Step Back"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">4:22</td></tr><tr><th id="track6" scope="row">6.</th><td>"<a href="Kick_It_In" title="Kick It In">Kick It In</a>"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">6:11</td></tr><tr><th id="track7" scope="row">7.</th><td>"Let It All Come Down"</td><td>John Giblin, Simple Minds</td><td class="tracklist-length">4:56</td></tr><tr><th id="track8" scope="row">8.</th><td>"<a href="Mandela_Day_(song)" title="Mandela Day (song)">Mandela Day</a>"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">5:45</td></tr><tr><th id="track9" scope="row">9.</th><td>"<a href="Belfast_Child" title="Belfast Child">Belfast Child</a>"</td><td>Simple Minds, Traditional</td><td class="tracklist-length">6:42</td></tr><tr><th id="track10" scope="row">10.</th><td>"<a href="Biko_(song)" title="Biko (song)">Biko</a>"</td><td><a href="Peter_Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel">Peter Gabriel</a></td><td class="tracklist-length">7:34</td></tr></tbody></table></div>

<div class="track-listing"><table class="tracklist"><caption>CD release bonus track</caption><tbody><tr><th class="tracklist-number-header" scope="col"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr></th><th scope="col" style="width:100%">Title</th><th class="tracklist-length-header" scope="col">Length</th></tr><tr><th id="track11" scope="row">11.</th><td>"When Spirits Rise"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:03</td></tr><tr class="tracklist-total-length"><th colspan="2" scope="row">Total length:</th><td>61:13</td></tr></tbody></table></div>

Sources<a href="#cite_note-amazon.co.uk_Simple_Minds_Street_Fighting_Years_Super_Deluxe-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-simpleminds.com_Simple_Minds_Street_Fighting_Years_Super_Deluxe-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-loudersound.com_Simple_Minds_Street_Fighting_Years_Super_Deluxe-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-classicpopmag.com_Simple_Minds_Street_Fighting_Years_Super_Deluxe-10">[10]</a>

<div class="track-listing"><table class="tracklist"><caption>Deluxe Edition Disc 1: The Original Album</caption><tbody><tr><th class="tracklist-number-header" scope="col"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr></th><th scope="col" style="width:60%">Title</th><th scope="col" style="width:40%">Writer(s)</th><th class="tracklist-length-header" scope="col">Length</th></tr><tr><th id="track1" scope="row">1.</th><td>"Street Fighting Years"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">6:26</td></tr><tr><th id="track2" scope="row">2.</th><td>"Soul Crying Out"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">6:07</td></tr><tr><th id="track3" scope="row">3.</th><td>"Wall of Love"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">5:20</td></tr><tr><th id="track4" scope="row">4.</th><td>"<a href="This_Is_Your_Land" title="This Is Your Land">This Is Your Land</a>"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">6:22</td></tr><tr><th id="track5" scope="row">5.</th><td>"Take a Step Back"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">4:22</td></tr><tr><th id="track6" scope="row">6.</th><td>"<a href="Kick_It_In" title="Kick It In">Kick It In</a>"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">6:11</td></tr><tr><th id="track7" scope="row">7.</th><td>"Let It All Come Down"</td><td>John Giblin, Simple Minds</td><td class="tracklist-length">4:56</td></tr><tr><th id="track8" scope="row">8.</th><td>"<a href="Mandela_Day_(song)" title="Mandela Day (song)">Mandela Day</a>"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">5:45</td></tr><tr><th id="track9" scope="row">9.</th><td>"<a href="Belfast_Child" title="Belfast Child">Belfast Child</a>"</td><td>Simple Minds, Traditional</td><td class="tracklist-length">6:42</td></tr><tr><th id="track10" scope="row">10.</th><td>"<a href="Biko_(song)" title="Biko (song)">Biko</a>"</td><td><a href="Peter_Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel">Peter Gabriel</a></td><td class="tracklist-length">7:34</td></tr><tr><th id="track11" scope="row">11.</th><td>"When Spirits Rise"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length">2:03</td></tr><tr class="tracklist-total-length"><th colspan="3" scope="row">Total length:</th><td>61:13</td></tr></tbody></table></div>

<div class="track-listing"><table class="tracklist"><caption>Deluxe Edition Disc 2: Edits, B-Sides and Remixes</caption><tbody><tr><th class="tracklist-number-header" scope="col"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr></th><th scope="col" style="width:60%">Title</th><th scope="col" style="width:40%">Writer(s)</th><th class="tracklist-length-header" scope="col">Length</th></tr><tr><th id="track1" scope="row">1.</th><td>"Belfast Child" (edit)</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr><tr><th id="track2" scope="row">2.</th><td>"Mandela Day" (edit)</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr><tr><th id="track3" scope="row">3.</th><td>"This Is Your Land" (edit)</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr><tr><th id="track4" scope="row">4.</th><td>"Saturday Girl"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr><tr><th id="track5" scope="row">5.</th><td>"Year of the Dragon"</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr><tr><th id="track6" scope="row">6.</th><td>"This Is Your Land" (DJ Version)</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr><tr><th id="track7" scope="row">7.</th><td>"Kick It In" (edit)</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr><tr><th id="track8" scope="row">8.</th><td>"Waterfront" (’89 remix)</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr><tr><th id="track9" scope="row">9.</th><td>"Big Sleep" (live)</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr><tr><th id="track10" scope="row">10.</th><td>"Kick It In" (Unauthorised Mix)</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr><tr><th id="track11" scope="row">11.</th><td>"<a href="Sign_o'_the_Times_(song)" title="Sign o' the Times (song)">Sign o' the Times</a>" (edit)</td><td><a href="Prince_(musician)" title="Prince (musician)">Prince</a></td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr><tr><th id="track12" scope="row">12.</th><td>"Let It All Come Down" (edit)</td><td> </td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr><tr><th id="track13" scope="row">13.</th><td>"Sign o' the Times"</td><td>Prince</td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr><tr><th id="track14" scope="row">14.</th><td>"Jerusalem"</td><td>words: <a href="William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>; music: <a href="Hubert_Parry" title="Hubert Parry">Hubert Parry</a></td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr><tr><th id="track15" scope="row">15.</th><td>"Sign o' the Times" (C.J. Mackintosh Remix)</td><td>Prince</td><td class="tracklist-length"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div>

<div class="track-listing"><table class="tracklist"><caption>Deluxe Edition Disc 3: Verona part 1</caption><tbody><tr><th class="tracklist-number-header" scope="col"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr></th><th scope="col" style="width:100%">Title</th><th class="tracklist-length-header" scope="col">Length</th></tr><tr><th id="track1" scope="row">1.</th><td>"Theme For Great Cities '90"</td><td class="tracklist-length">3:07</td></tr><tr><th id="track2" scope="row">2.</th><td>"When Spirits Rise"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:23</td></tr><tr><th id="track3" scope="row">3.</th><td>"Street Fighting Years" (live)</td><td class="tracklist-length">7:36</td></tr><tr><th id="track4" scope="row">4.</th><td>"Mandela Day" (live)</td><td class="tracklist-length">8:30</td></tr><tr><th id="track5" scope="row">5.</th><td>"This Is Your Land" (live)</td><td class="tracklist-length">8:34</td></tr><tr><th id="track6" scope="row">6.</th><td>"Soul Crying Out" (live)</td><td class="tracklist-length">7:55</td></tr><tr><th id="track7" scope="row">7.</th><td>"Waterfront" (live)</td><td class="tracklist-length">5:26</td></tr><tr><th id="track8" scope="row">8.</th><td>"Ghost Dancing" (live)</td><td class="tracklist-length">7:41</td></tr><tr><th id="track9" scope="row">9.</th><td>"Book of Brilliant Things" (live)</td><td class="tracklist-length">4:53</td></tr><tr><th id="track10" scope="row">10.</th><td>"Don’t You (Forget About Me)" (live)</td><td class="tracklist-length">8:58</td></tr><tr class="tracklist-total-length"><th colspan="2" scope="row">Total length:</th><td>65:03</td></tr></tbody></table></div>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personnel">Personnel</h2></div>

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<dl><dt>Simple Minds</dt></dl>

<ul><li><a href="Jim_Kerr" title="Jim Kerr">Jim Kerr</a> – lead vocals</li>

<li><a href="Charlie_Burchill" title="Charlie Burchill">Charlie Burchill</a> – acoustic and electric guitars</li>

<li><a href="Mick_MacNeil" title="Mick MacNeil">Mick MacNeil</a> – piano, accordion, keyboards</li></ul>

<dl><dt>Additional musicians</dt></dl>

<ul><li><a href="John_Giblin" title="John Giblin">John Giblin</a> – fretted and <a href="Fretless_bass" title="Fretless bass">fretless bass</a> guitar, double bass (1)</li>

<li><a href="Stephen_Lipson" title="Stephen Lipson">Stephen Lipson</a> – additional bass guitar, producer</li>

<li><a href="Mel_Gaynor" title="Mel Gaynor">Mel Gaynor</a> – drums (3, 8, 10)</li>

<li><a href="Manu_Katch%C3%A9" title="Manu Katché">Manu Katché</a> – drums (1, 2, 9)</li>

<li><a href="Stewart_Copeland" title="Stewart Copeland">Stewart Copeland</a> – <a href="LinnDrum" title="LinnDrum">LinnDrum</a> programming (uncredited) (4, 6)<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></li>

<li>Leroy Williams – percussion (1, 2, 8, 9, 10)</li>

<li>Sidney Thiam – additional percussion</li>

<li>Abdul M'boup – additional percussion</li>

<li>Maureen Kerr – penny whistle, bodhran</li>

<li>Roger Sharp – bagpipes</li>

<li><a href="Lisa_Germano" title="Lisa Germano">Lisa Germano</a> – violin (1, 4, 9)</li>

<li>William Lithgow – cello</li>

<li>Sheena McKenzie – cello</li>

<li><a href="John_Altman_(composer)" title="John Altman (composer)">John Altman</a> – orchestral arrangements</li>

<li><a href="Lou_Reed" title="Lou Reed">Lou Reed</a> – additional lead vocals on "This Is Your Land"</li>

<li>Lorna Bannon – backing vocals</li></ul>

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<dl><dt>Studio personnel</dt></dl>

<ul><li>Dougie Cowan – technical master</li>

<li>Robin Hancock – engineer</li>

<li>Guido Harari – photography</li>

<li>Simon Heyworth – mastering</li>

<li>Trevor Horn – producer</li>

<li>Paul Kerr – logistics</li>

<li>Stephen Lewis – talking</li>

<li><a href="Bob_Ludwig" title="Bob Ludwig">Bob Ludwig</a> – mastering</li>

<li>Heff Moraes – engineer</li>

<li>Martin Plant – assistant engineer</li>

<li>Steve Ralbovsky – talking</li>

<li>Willie P. Richardson – talking</li>

<li>Danton Supple – assistant engineer</li>

<li>Jane Ventom – coordination</li>

<li>Gary Wathen – talking</li>

<li>Ying Ho Au Yeung – catering</li></ul>

</td></tr></tbody></table></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Charts">Charts</h2></div>

<div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Weekly_charts">Weekly charts</h3></div>

<th scope="col">Chart (1989)

</th>

<th scope="col">Peak position

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Australian Albums (<a href="ARIA_Charts" title="ARIA Charts">ARIA</a>)<a href="#cite_note-ac_Australia_Simple_Minds-24">[24]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">11

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Austrian Albums (<a href="%C3%963_Austria_Top_40" title="Ö3 Austria Top 40">Ö3 Austria</a>)<a href="#cite_note-ac_Austria_Simple_Minds-25">[25]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">3

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Canada Top Albums/CDs (<a href="RPM_(magazine)" title="RPM (magazine)">RPM</a>)<a href="#cite_note-group=-26">[26]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">24

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Dutch Albums (<a href="Dutch_Album_Top_100" title="Dutch Album Top 100">Album Top 100</a>)<a href="#cite_note-ac_Netherlands_Simple_Minds-27">[27]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">1

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Finnish Albums (<a href="The_Official_Finnish_Charts" class="mw-redirect" title="The Official Finnish Charts">The Official Finnish Charts</a>)<a href="#cite_note-FINI-28">[28]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">10

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">German Albums (<a href="GfK_Entertainment_charts" title="GfK Entertainment charts">Offizielle Top 100</a>)<a href="#cite_note-ac_Germany4_Simple_Minds-29">[29]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">1

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">New Zealand Albums (<a href="Official_New_Zealand_Music_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="Official New Zealand Music Chart">RMNZ</a>)<a href="#cite_note-ac_New_Zealand_Simple_Minds-30">[30]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">4

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Norwegian Albums (<a href="VG-lista" title="VG-lista">VG-lista</a>)<a href="#cite_note-ac_Norway_Simple_Minds-31">[31]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">4

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Swedish Albums (<a href="Sverigetopplistan" title="Sverigetopplistan">Sverigetopplistan</a>)<a href="#cite_note-ac_Sweden_Simple_Minds-32">[32]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">4

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Swiss Albums (<a href="Swiss_Hitparade" title="Swiss Hitparade">Schweizer Hitparade</a>)<a href="#cite_note-ac_Switzerland_Simple_Minds-33">[33]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">1

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="UK_Albums_Chart" title="UK Albums Chart">UK Albums</a> (<a href="Official_Charts_Company" title="Official Charts Company">OCC</a>)<a href="#cite_note-ac_UK_Simple_Minds-34">[34]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">1

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">US <a href="Billboard_200" title="Billboard 200">Billboard 200</a><a href="#cite_note-ac_Billboard200_Simple_Minds-35">[35]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">70

</td></tr></tbody></table>

<th scope="col">Chart (2020)

</th>

<th scope="col">Peak position

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Belgian Albums (<a href="Ultratop" title="Ultratop">Ultratop</a> Flanders)<a href="#cite_note-ac_Flanders_Simple_Minds-36">[36]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">77

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Belgian Albums (<a href="Ultratop" title="Ultratop">Ultratop</a> Wallonia)<a href="#cite_note-ac_Wallonia_Simple_Minds-37">[37]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">37

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Spanish Albums (<a href="Productores_de_M%C3%BAsica_de_Espa%C3%B1a" title="Productores de Música de España">PROMUSICAE</a>)<a href="#cite_note-ac_Spain_Simple_Minds-38">[38]</a>

</th>

<td align="center">84

</td></tr></tbody></table>

</td>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Year-end_charts">Year-end charts</h3></div>

<th scope="col">Chart (1989)

</th>

<th scope="col">Position

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a>

</th>

<td>24

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a>

</th>

<td>13

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a>

</th>

<td>4

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a>

</th>

<td>9

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">UK Albums (OCC)

</th>

<td>18

</td></tr></tbody></table>

</td></tr></tbody></table></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Singles">Singles</h3></div>

<th>Single

</th>

<th>Chart (1989)

</th>

<th>Position

</th></tr>

<tr>

<td>"Belfast Child"

</td>

<td><a href="UK_Singles_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Singles Chart">UK Singles Chart</a>

</td>

<td align="center">1

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td rowspan="3">"This Is Your Land"

</td>

<td>UK Singles Chart

</td>

<td align="center">13

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="Alternative_Songs" class="mw-redirect" title="Alternative Songs">US Modern Rock Tracks</a>

</td>

<td align="center">12

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td><a href="Mainstream_Rock_(chart)" title="Mainstream Rock (chart)">US Billboard Mainstream Rock</a>

</td>

<td align="center">37

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>"Kick It In"

</td>

<td>UK Singles Chart

</td>

<td align="center">15

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>The Amsterdam EP

</td>

<td>UK Singles Chart

</td>

<td align="center">18

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>"Mandela Day"

</td>

<td>US Modern Rock Tracks

</td>

<td align="center">17

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>"Take a Step Back"

</td>

<td>US Modern Rock Tracks

</td>

<td align="center">14

</td></tr>

</tbody></table>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Certifications_and_sales">Certifications and sales</h2></div>

</caption>

<th scope="col">Region

</th>

<th scope="col">Certification</th>

<th scope="col" data-sort-type="number"><a href="List_of_music_recording_certifications" title="List of music recording certifications">Certified units</a>/sales

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Australia (<a href="Australian_Recording_Industry_Association" title="Australian Recording Industry Association">ARIA</a>)<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a>

</th>

<td>Gold

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Canada (<a href="Music_Canada" title="Music Canada">Music Canada</a>)<a href="#cite_note-CanadaSimple_MindsStreet_Fighting_YearsalbumCertRef-45">[45]</a>

</th>

<td>Gold

</td>

<td>50,000^

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">France (<a href="SNEP" title="SNEP">SNEP</a>)<a href="#cite_note-FranceSimple_MindsStreet_Fighting_YearsalbumCertRef-46">[46]</a>

</th>

<td>Platinum

</td>

<td>300,000*

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Germany (<a href="Bundesverband_Musikindustrie" title="Bundesverband Musikindustrie">BVMI</a>)<a href="#cite_note-GermanySimple_MindsStreet_Fighting_YearsalbumCertRef-47">[47]</a>

</th>

<td>Platinum

</td>

<td>500,000^

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Italy sales in 1989

</th>

<td data-sort-value="" style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:center" class="table-na">—

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Netherlands (<a href="NVPI" title="NVPI">NVPI</a>)<a href="#cite_note-NetherlandsSimple_MindsStreet_Fighting_YearsalbumCertRef-49">[49]</a>

</th>

<td>Platinum

</td>

<td>100,000^

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Spain (<a href="Productores_de_M%C3%BAsica_de_Espa%C3%B1a" title="Productores de Música de España">PROMUSICAE</a>)<a href="#cite_note-Spanish_certifications_1979-1990-50">[50]</a>

</th>

<td>Gold

</td>

<td>50,000^

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Sweden (<a href="Swedish_Recording_Industry_Association" title="Swedish Recording Industry Association">GLF</a>)<a href="#cite_note-SwedenSimple_MindsStreet_Fighting_YearsalbumCertRef-51">[51]</a>

</th>

<td>Gold

</td>

<td>50,000^

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Switzerland (<a href="International_Federation_of_the_Phonographic_Industry" title="International Federation of the Phonographic Industry">IFPI</a> Switzerland)<a href="#cite_note-SwitzerlandSimple_MindsStreet_Fighting_YearsalbumCertRef-52">[52]</a>

</th>

<td>Platinum

</td>

<td>50,000^

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">United Kingdom (<a href="British_Phonographic_Industry" title="British Phonographic Industry">BPI</a>)<a href="#cite_note-United_KingdomSimple_MindsStreet_Fighting_YearsalbumCertRef-53">[53]</a>

</th>

<td>2× Platinum

</td>

<td>600,000^

</td></tr>

<th scope="col" colspan="3">Summaries

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row">Europe

</th>

<td data-sort-value="" style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:center" class="table-na">—

</td>

</td></tr>

* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.discogs.com/master/58937">Street Fighting Years</a> at <a href="Discogs" title="Discogs">Discogs</a> (list of releases)</li></ul>

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<li><a href="John_Giblin" title="John Giblin">John Giblin</a></li>

<li><a href="Mel_Gaynor" title="Mel Gaynor">Mel Gaynor</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Anchoress_(musician)" title="The Anchoress (musician)">Catherine AD</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Real_to_Real_Cacophony" title="Real to Real Cacophony">Real to Real Cacophony</a></li>

<li><a href="Empires_and_Dance" title="Empires and Dance">Empires and Dance</a></li>

<li><a href="Sons_and_Fascination/Sister_Feelings_Call" title="Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call">Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call</a></li>

<li><a href="New_Gold_Dream_(81%E2%80%9382%E2%80%9383%E2%80%9384)" class="mw-redirect" title="New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84)">New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84)</a></li>

<li><a href="Sparkle_in_the_Rain" title="Sparkle in the Rain">Sparkle in the Rain</a></li>

<li><a href="Good_News_from_the_Next_World" title="Good News from the Next World">Good News from the Next World</a></li>

<li><a href="N%C3%A9apolis_(album)" title="Néapolis (album)">Néapolis</a></li>

<li><a href="Silver_Box" title="Silver Box">Our Secrets Are the Same</a></li>

<li><a href="Neon_Lights_(album)" title="Neon Lights (album)">Neon Lights</a></li>

<li><a href="Black_%26_White_050505" title="Black & White 050505">Black & White 050505</a></li>

<li><a href="Graffiti_Soul" title="Graffiti Soul">Graffiti Soul</a></li>

<li><a href="Big_Music_(Simple_Minds_album)" title="Big Music (Simple Minds album)">Big Music</a></li>

<li><a href="Acoustic_(Simple_Minds_album)" title="Acoustic (Simple Minds album)">Acoustic</a></li>

<li><a href="Walk_Between_Worlds" title="Walk Between Worlds">Walk Between Worlds</a></li>

<li><a href="Direction_of_the_Heart" title="Direction of the Heart">Direction of the Heart</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Live_in_the_City_of_Light" title="Live in the City of Light">Live in the City of Light</a></li>

<li><a href="Sunday_Express_%E2%80%93_Live_(Volumes_1_%26_2)" title="Sunday Express – Live (Volumes 1 & 2)">Sunday Express – Live (Volumes 1 & 2)</a></li>

<li><a href="Acoustic_in_Concert" title="Acoustic in Concert">Acoustic in Concert</a></li>

<li><a href="Live_in_the_City_of_Angels" title="Live in the City of Angels">Live in the City of Angels</a></li>

<li><a href="Live_in_the_City_of_Diamonds" class="mw-redirect" title="Live in the City of Diamonds">Live in the City of Diamonds</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compilations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Themes_for_Great_Cities_79/81" title="Themes for Great Cities 79/81">Themes for Great Cities 79/81</a></li>

<li><a href="Celebration_(Simple_Minds_album)" title="Celebration (Simple Minds album)">Celebration</a></li>

<li><a href="Glittering_Prize_81/92" title="Glittering Prize 81/92">Glittering Prize 81/92</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Promised" title="The Promised">The Promised</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Best_of_Simple_Minds" title="The Best of Simple Minds">The Best of Simple Minds</a></li>

<li><a href="Early_Gold" title="Early Gold">Early Gold</a></li>

<li><a href="Silver_Box" title="Silver Box">Silver Box</a></li>

<li><a href="Celebrate%3A_The_Greatest_Hits" title="Celebrate: The Greatest Hits">Celebrate: The Greatest Hits</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Singles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li>"<a href="Promised_You_a_Miracle" title="Promised You a Miracle">Promised You a Miracle</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Glittering_Prize" title="Glittering Prize">Glittering Prize</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Someone_Somewhere_in_Summertime" title="Someone Somewhere in Summertime">Someone Somewhere (In Summertime)</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Waterfront_(song)" title="Waterfront (song)">Waterfront</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Speed_Your_Love_to_Me" title="Speed Your Love to Me">Speed Your Love to Me</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Up_on_the_Catwalk" title="Up on the Catwalk">Up on the Catwalk</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Don't_You_(Forget_About_Me)" title="Don't You (Forget About Me)">Don't You (Forget About Me)</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Alive_and_Kicking_(song)" title="Alive and Kicking (song)">Alive and Kicking</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Sanctify_Yourself" title="Sanctify Yourself">Sanctify Yourself</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="All_the_Things_She_Said_(Simple_Minds_song)" title="All the Things She Said (Simple Minds song)">All the Things She Said</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Ghostdancing" title="Ghostdancing">Ghostdancing</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Belfast_Child" title="Belfast Child">Belfast Child</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Let_There_Be_Love_(Simple_Minds_song)" title="Let There Be Love (Simple Minds song)">Let There Be Love</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="See_the_Lights" title="See the Lights">See the Lights</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Stand_by_Love" title="Stand by Love">Stand by Love</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="She's_a_River" title="She's a River">She's a River</a>"</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Promo singles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Mandela_Day_(song)" title="Mandela Day (song)">"Mandela Day" (US)</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Themes series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Themes_%E2%80%93_Volume_1%3A_March_79%E2%80%93April_82" title="Themes – Volume 1: March 79–April 82">Themes – Volume 1: March 79–April 82</a></li>

<li><a href="Themes_%E2%80%93_Volume_2%3A_August_82%E2%80%93April_85" title="Themes – Volume 2: August 82–April 85">Themes – Volume 2: August 82–April 85</a></li>

<li><a href="Themes_%E2%80%93_Volume_3%3A_September_85%E2%80%93June_87" title="Themes – Volume 3: September 85–June 87">Themes – Volume 3: September 85–June 87</a></li>

<li><a href="Themes_%E2%80%93_Volume_4%3A_February_89%E2%80%93May_90" title="Themes – Volume 4: February 89–May 90">Themes – Volume 4: February 89–May 90</a></li>

<li><a href="Themes_%E2%80%93_Volume_5%3A_March_91%E2%80%93September_92" title="Themes – Volume 5: March 91–September 92">Themes – Volume 5: March 91–September 92</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Simple_Minds_discography" title="Simple Minds discography">Discography</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_Simple_Minds_concert_tours" title="List of Simple Minds concert tours">Concert tours</a></li>

<li><a href="Lostboy!_AKA_Jim_Kerr" title="Lostboy! AKA Jim Kerr">Lostboy! AKA Jim Kerr</a></li>

<li><a href="Ex-Simple_Minds" title="Ex-Simple Minds">Ex-Simple Minds</a></li></ul>

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