Simply Red-Career Review

Career Review

brings up to date a musical history which began in Manchester in the early 1980s. It was while an art student in his home city that Mick formed the punkish Frantic Elevators. On their disbandment, he then put together the earliest incarnation of Simply Red, signing to Elektra and releasing a fine debut LP, 1985's 'Picture Book', which included the classic singles 'Money's Too Tight (Too Mention)', and 'Holding Back The Years', a track which gave the group its first U.S. No.1. In the intervening years, a string of critically acclaimed and commercially highly successful albums have followed - 'Men And Women' (1987), 'A New Flame' (1989), 'Stars' (1991), 'Life' (1995) and 'Blue' (1998), which have sold over 40 million copies. Particular career highlights to date have included the exceptional success of 'Stars', the most successful British album of both 1991 and 1992: a second American chart-topper with 1989's inspired cover of Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes 'If You Don't Know Me By Now', and a first U. K. No.1 with 1995's 'Fairground'. Says Mick of that sound 'It's very pluralist, in the same way that my life is. I don't like just one type of food. I don't like just one kind of music. But we do only get just one shot at living in this amazing world, and it's up to each and every one of us to get out there and taste as much of it as we can. That's the spirit that goes into our records. My hope is that they take the listener to a lot of different places." With an irresistible new single 'Ain't That A Lot Of Love' heralding the imminent release of the band's seventh studio album, Simply Red are ready to add a new chapter to one of the most consistent success stories within a generation of British pop. "Every time I sit down to talk about a new project, I am able to say hand-on-heart that I've given the best I could at a particular time," says the band's driving force, singer and writer Mick Hucknall. "But I really feel that I've reached a peak with this one." Titled 'Love And The Russian Winter', it is the band at its best, doing what it does best - incorporating a variety of musical styles, influences and moods into the singular, wholly unmistakable and entirely original sound that is Simply Red. Playing the opening of the Dome was a great way to finish off the millennium and Observatory of Greenwich. What do they do now. Encores become harder as year go by... On January 21st, 2000 Mick Hucknall of Simply Red was interviewed by Michael Parkinson.

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