Speed Your Love To Me - 2002 Remastered

This urgent love song was the second single from the Sparkle In The Rain album, following "Waterfront." It finds lead singer Jim Kerr burning with desire, and using lots of fire imagery to make his point: You go to my head With the flames that grow higher and higher

Jim Kerr's love went speeding toward Chrissie Hynde of the Prentenders around the time this song was released. Simple Minds and Prentenders crossed paths in early 1984 when they were each touring in Australia - they toured separately but were both on the bill for the Narara Music Festival in January. On May 5, 1984, they got married, and soon after embarked on a US tour, with Simple Minds opening for The Pretenders on the Learning To Crawl tour. They divorced in 1990.

The Righteous Brothers famously sang, "Godspeed your love to me" in "Unchained Melody." In a Songfacts interview with Jim Kerr, with asked if it was an influence. "Yes, there must have been," he replied. "We loved that song. Such a great sentiment."