It was the book Themes for Great Cities by Graeme Thomson that inspired Orwell's frontman Jérôme Didelot to rearrange Simple Minds songs. This biography, which pays tribute to the inventiveness of the early years of Simple Minds, was a revelation to the musician from Nancy: 'The idea was not to reinterpret songs that everyone had already hummed, but to go and find lesser-known themes in the Scottish band's discography, sometimes drowned out by the radical sound of these early albums, and to offer them in personal, almost solemn versions."
