'A nuclear reactor of music': the story of Simple Minds' classic album Empires and Dance | Simple Minds

Before their 80s megastardom, the band minted a strange vision of European culture and tension that still resonates. They – and superfan James Dean Bradfield from the Manic Street Preachers – reflect on its power

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