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Английская группа Simply Red была создана в 1984 году. В её состав вошли вокалист и автор песен Мик "Ред" ("Рыжий") Хакнелл (р. 8 июня 1960, Манчестер, Англия), клавишник Фриц Макинтайр (2 сентября 1956, Бирмингем, Англия), басист Шон Увард, гитарист Силван Ричардсон, а также три бывших члена команды The Durutti Column – басист Тони Бауэрс (р. 31 октября 1952), ударник Крис Джойс (р. 11 октября 1957, Манчестер) и Тим Келлет (р.23 июля 1964, Кнэресборо, Англия; клавишные, духовые). Название группе, конечно же, подарил знаменитый рыжий цвет волос Мика. Сначала группа выступила в привычной для новичков роли разогревающей группы перед выступлением Бобби Брауна во время его английского турне. Стиль музыки коллектива своими корнями уходил в традиционные блюзы, джаз и соул. В 1985 году группа заключила контракт с Elektra Records и выпустила на этом лейбле свой дебютный альбом Picture Book.
Диск включал в себя композицию Money's Too Tight (To Mention) – кавер песни The Valentine Brothers 1982 года, попавшую в Топ 40, а также сочинение самого Хакнелла Holding Back the Years, занявшее верхнюю строчку американских чартов.
Изданная синглом, эта песня помогла альбому получить платиновый статус. В результате в 1986 году Simply Red скользили на гребне успеха. В 1987-м Хакнелл с помощью соул-композитора Ламонта Дозьера написали материал для второй пластинки группы. Вышедшая в марте этого года Men and Women была уже менее популярна, хотя сопутствующий сингл The Right Thing попал в штатовский Топ 40, а песни Infidelity и кавер Коула Портера Time We Say Goodbye оказались в лучшей английской сороковке. В 1987 году из команды ушёл Ричардсон, место которого занял гитарист Азиз Ибрахим, которого в свою очередь сменил бразилец Хейтор Ти Пи. Третий альбом, A New Flame, получил "золото" в основном благодаря кавер-версии Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes 1972 года If You Don't Know Me By Now. Сингл с этой песней, также поимевший золотой статус, побывал на верних строчках штатовских хит-парадов.
В Англии в то же время в Топ 40 попали синглы It's Only Love и A New Flame. Ко времени выхода четвёртого альбома, Stars, вышедшего в сентябре 1991-го, из Simply Red ушли Бауэрс и Джойс.
Теперь в составе появились новые музыканты: басист Шаун Уорд, ударник Гота и саксофонист Ян Киркхэм. В Европе, а особенно в Англии Stars пользовался большим спросом, на целых 19 недель возглавив британские хит-парады. Заглавная композиция с этого диска, а также For Your Babies вошли в десятку лучших, а ещё три - Something Got Me Started, Thrill Me и Your Mirror – попали в Топ 40.
В Америке альбом не получил такого признания, хотя синглы Something Got Me Started и Stars получили золотой статус. Всего же в мире было продано около 10 миллионов экземпляров этой пластинки. После выхода альбома Life в 1995 году группу покинули Уорд и Гота, а в составе добавился бэк-вокалист Ди Джонсон. Life, также как и сопровождавший его сингл, Fairground, возглавил европейские чарты.
В штатах миньон тоже три месяца проторчал в хит-парадах, хотя сам альбом имел гораздо меньший успех. Примерно та же судьба постигла и следующие релизы, Blue и Love and the Russian Winter. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Диск включал в себя композицию Money's Too Tight (To Mention) – кавер песни The Valentine Brothers 1982 года, попавшую в Топ 40, а также сочинение самого Хакнелла Holding Back the Years, занявшее верхнюю строчку американских чартов.
Изданная синглом, эта песня помогла альбому получить платиновый статус. В результате в 1986 году Simply Red скользили на гребне успеха. В 1987-м Хакнелл с помощью соул-композитора Ламонта Дозьера написали материал для второй пластинки группы. Вышедшая в марте этого года Men and Women была уже менее популярна, хотя сопутствующий сингл The Right Thing попал в штатовский Топ 40, а песни Infidelity и кавер Коула Портера Time We Say Goodbye оказались в лучшей английской сороковке. В 1987 году из команды ушёл Ричардсон, место которого занял гитарист Азиз Ибрахим, которого в свою очередь сменил бразилец Хейтор Ти Пи. Третий альбом, A New Flame, получил "золото" в основном благодаря кавер-версии Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes 1972 года If You Don't Know Me By Now. Сингл с этой песней, также поимевший золотой статус, побывал на верних строчках штатовских хит-парадов.
В Англии в то же время в Топ 40 попали синглы It's Only Love и A New Flame. Ко времени выхода четвёртого альбома, Stars, вышедшего в сентябре 1991-го, из Simply Red ушли Бауэрс и Джойс.
Теперь в составе появились новые музыканты: басист Шаун Уорд, ударник Гота и саксофонист Ян Киркхэм. В Европе, а особенно в Англии Stars пользовался большим спросом, на целых 19 недель возглавив британские хит-парады. Заглавная композиция с этого диска, а также For Your Babies вошли в десятку лучших, а ещё три - Something Got Me Started, Thrill Me и Your Mirror – попали в Топ 40.
В Америке альбом не получил такого признания, хотя синглы Something Got Me Started и Stars получили золотой статус. Всего же в мире было продано около 10 миллионов экземпляров этой пластинки. После выхода альбома Life в 1995 году группу покинули Уорд и Гота, а в составе добавился бэк-вокалист Ди Джонсон. Life, также как и сопровождавший его сингл, Fairground, возглавил европейские чарты.
В штатах миньон тоже три месяца проторчал в хит-парадах, хотя сам альбом имел гораздо меньший успех. Примерно та же судьба постигла и следующие релизы, Blue и Love and the Russian Winter. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Simply Red is an English pop band, formed in the mid 1980s.
Simply Red's roots originate from the notorious 1976 Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester. Manchester art student Mick Hucknall was one of the many young music fans present (along with original members of The Fall, Joy Division, The Smiths and Buzzcocks) who was inspired to form a band after witnessing that gig. The first incarnation of the band was a punk group called The Frantic Elevators. This band existed for 7 years, with limited releases on local labels, but split in 1984 with only limited local attention and critical acclaim for their final single, "Holding Back the Years".
After the demise of the Frantic Elevators, Hucknall linked up with manager Elliot Rashman. By early 1985 Hucknall and Rashman had assembled a band of local session musicians and began to attract record company attention. Around this time the group adopted the name Simply Red (after Hucknall's nickname, which denoted hair color, football allegiance to Manchester United and left-wing political affiliation). They signed to Elektra in 1985, with the somewhat changeable line-up of Hucknall, Tony Bowers (bass), Fritz McIntyre (keyboards), Tim Kellett (brass), Sylvan Richardson (guitar) and Chris Joyce (drums). Their first single, released in 1985, was "Money's Too Tight (To Mention)", a cover of a soul standard originally recorded by The Valentine Brothers. This single had moderate success, reaching the UK Top 20.
In 1986 the band re-recorded "Holding Back The Years", the Frantic Elevators' biggest hit, in a more accessible pop style with adjustments in lyrics and instrumentation. The tune became a major hit, peaking at #2 in Great Britain and later #1 in the United States, and established Simply Red as a household name. Their debut album, 'Picture Book', which had been released previously in 1985, began to sell more copies, and it became an international hit album, with multi-platinum certification.
Their second album, 1987's "Men and Women", saw the band adopting a more sober and professional image, with bowler hats and colorful suits replacing their earlier ragamuffin look, and the introspection and social commentary of their debut replaced by a blue-eyed soul sound with funk influences. Around this time Hucknall became a tabloid personality, drawing attention and criticism for his alleged womanising, and gaining a reputation as "a lecherous loudmouth" and bien pensant. Despite Hucknall's bad reputation and the album's bad reviews, or perhaps as a result of them, Men and Women was a commercial success.
With their third album "A New Flame", Simply Red adopted a yet more mainstream populist sound aimed for commercial rather than critical success, typified by their cover of Harold Melvin's pop classic "If You Don't Know Me By Now", which became their second U.S. #1 hit and one of the biggest singles of the year internationally. Hucknall was by this time an international superstar, being photographed with models and Hollywood celebrities. This seemed to harm the band's coherence as a unit, with Hucknall declaring in 1991 that Simply Red was "essentially a solo project".
The band's popular career peaked later that year with the release of "Stars", which became the best-selling album for two years running in Europe and the UK (though notably had far less success in the US than their previous albums). "Stars" mixed Hucknall's anti-Thatcherite political lyrics with an easy-listening lounge-jazz sound, apparently to avoid alienation of their existing fanbase.
After touring and promoting "Stars" for two years, Simply Red returned in 1995 with "Fairground", a dance-influenced track featuring prominently a sample from Zki & Dobri's Goodmen project. A massive radio hit, "Fairground" went on to become the band’s first British #1, amid critical panning. Its parent album 'Life' sold more than a million copies in the UK alone, making it the fourth-biggest seller of the year. The band followed this up with cover heavy 'Blue' in 1998 and 'Love and the Russian Winter'. After 'Love and the Russian Winter' they left EastWest and Hucknall set up his own record label simplyred.com where he released "Home" in 2003, a mixture of mostly original songs and covers, including a version of The Stylistics song "You Make Me Feel Brand New". "Simplified" followed in 2005, mainly an album of stripped down versions of their Classic hits.
The single "Oh! What A Girl!" released in September 2006 from their album Stay, their 10th, released on 12 March 2007. This was preceded by the single “So Not Over You”, released on 5 March 2007. The third single from the album was the title song "Stay", released on 28 May 2007. The fourth and the last single of Simply Red single , "The World And You Tonight", was released in November 2007.
Mick Hucknall announced that the band were due to split in 2009, after a farewell tour.
"I've kind of decided that the 25 years is going to be enough, so I intend that the 2009 will be the last Simply Red tour."
"I've just recorded an album that is a tribute to Bobby Bland, a blues and R'n'B artist. It's a solo project and I've really enjoyed it so much that I feel the time has come now to just put a book-end to the story and the album Stay will be the last Simply Red studio album."
Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Simply Red's roots originate from the notorious 1976 Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester. Manchester art student Mick Hucknall was one of the many young music fans present (along with original members of The Fall, Joy Division, The Smiths and Buzzcocks) who was inspired to form a band after witnessing that gig. The first incarnation of the band was a punk group called The Frantic Elevators. This band existed for 7 years, with limited releases on local labels, but split in 1984 with only limited local attention and critical acclaim for their final single, "Holding Back the Years".
After the demise of the Frantic Elevators, Hucknall linked up with manager Elliot Rashman. By early 1985 Hucknall and Rashman had assembled a band of local session musicians and began to attract record company attention. Around this time the group adopted the name Simply Red (after Hucknall's nickname, which denoted hair color, football allegiance to Manchester United and left-wing political affiliation). They signed to Elektra in 1985, with the somewhat changeable line-up of Hucknall, Tony Bowers (bass), Fritz McIntyre (keyboards), Tim Kellett (brass), Sylvan Richardson (guitar) and Chris Joyce (drums). Their first single, released in 1985, was "Money's Too Tight (To Mention)", a cover of a soul standard originally recorded by The Valentine Brothers. This single had moderate success, reaching the UK Top 20.
In 1986 the band re-recorded "Holding Back The Years", the Frantic Elevators' biggest hit, in a more accessible pop style with adjustments in lyrics and instrumentation. The tune became a major hit, peaking at #2 in Great Britain and later #1 in the United States, and established Simply Red as a household name. Their debut album, 'Picture Book', which had been released previously in 1985, began to sell more copies, and it became an international hit album, with multi-platinum certification.
Their second album, 1987's "Men and Women", saw the band adopting a more sober and professional image, with bowler hats and colorful suits replacing their earlier ragamuffin look, and the introspection and social commentary of their debut replaced by a blue-eyed soul sound with funk influences. Around this time Hucknall became a tabloid personality, drawing attention and criticism for his alleged womanising, and gaining a reputation as "a lecherous loudmouth" and bien pensant. Despite Hucknall's bad reputation and the album's bad reviews, or perhaps as a result of them, Men and Women was a commercial success.
With their third album "A New Flame", Simply Red adopted a yet more mainstream populist sound aimed for commercial rather than critical success, typified by their cover of Harold Melvin's pop classic "If You Don't Know Me By Now", which became their second U.S. #1 hit and one of the biggest singles of the year internationally. Hucknall was by this time an international superstar, being photographed with models and Hollywood celebrities. This seemed to harm the band's coherence as a unit, with Hucknall declaring in 1991 that Simply Red was "essentially a solo project".
The band's popular career peaked later that year with the release of "Stars", which became the best-selling album for two years running in Europe and the UK (though notably had far less success in the US than their previous albums). "Stars" mixed Hucknall's anti-Thatcherite political lyrics with an easy-listening lounge-jazz sound, apparently to avoid alienation of their existing fanbase.
After touring and promoting "Stars" for two years, Simply Red returned in 1995 with "Fairground", a dance-influenced track featuring prominently a sample from Zki & Dobri's Goodmen project. A massive radio hit, "Fairground" went on to become the band’s first British #1, amid critical panning. Its parent album 'Life' sold more than a million copies in the UK alone, making it the fourth-biggest seller of the year. The band followed this up with cover heavy 'Blue' in 1998 and 'Love and the Russian Winter'. After 'Love and the Russian Winter' they left EastWest and Hucknall set up his own record label simplyred.com where he released "Home" in 2003, a mixture of mostly original songs and covers, including a version of The Stylistics song "You Make Me Feel Brand New". "Simplified" followed in 2005, mainly an album of stripped down versions of their Classic hits.
The single "Oh! What A Girl!" released in September 2006 from their album Stay, their 10th, released on 12 March 2007. This was preceded by the single “So Not Over You”, released on 5 March 2007. The third single from the album was the title song "Stay", released on 28 May 2007. The fourth and the last single of Simply Red single , "The World And You Tonight", was released in November 2007.
Mick Hucknall announced that the band were due to split in 2009, after a farewell tour.
"I've kind of decided that the 25 years is going to be enough, so I intend that the 2009 will be the last Simply Red tour."
"I've just recorded an album that is a tribute to Bobby Bland, a blues and R'n'B artist. It's a solo project and I've really enjoyed it so much that I feel the time has come now to just put a book-end to the story and the album Stay will be the last Simply Red studio album."
Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.