Simply Red
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Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 1984
IT HAS to be said that this plumpish, carrot-mopped bloke stomping around like a kid in a playpen hardly looks the part of STAR. And ...
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Simply Red's Mick Hucknall (2009)
Interview by Maureen Paton, Rock's Backpages audio, 20 January 2009
The Ginger soulster talks about the impending end of Simply Red; his winery in Sicily and salmon river in Ireland; his recent lifestyle changes; Manchester and the Gallagher brothers; his art-school days; his partner Gabriella and his daughter; his father and absent mother; the Labour Party and the Iraq war; the music scene today, The X-Factor, and his alienation from it all.
File format: mp3; file size: 50.6mb, interview length: 52' 44" sound quality: ***
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Simply Red: Goldsmiths College, London
Live Review by Julian Henry, Melody Maker, 9 February 1985
I'VE ALWAYS wondered what sort of groups have the music industry slobbering over them prior to any form of public acclaim and Simply Red are ...
Simply Red: Hammersmith Palais, London
Live Review by Helen Fitzgerald, Melody Maker, 30 November 1985
AND SO the controversy continues. Inflammatory statements rage about our ears as the Mancunian soul-revivalists stand their ground and weather the cries of derision that ...
Interview by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 1 February 1986
SCENES OF decay and destruction: cracked streets, derelict warehouses, disused railways, a forsaken synagogue and – cloaked by walls of racist graffiti – the burnt-out ...
Punk in Manchester: Oh, How We Laughed
Essay by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 15 February 1986
BE OFF with you! Little Red, it is said, is not happy at the hollow allegations that suggest he has 'sold out' by leaping from ...
Simply Red: Up the English Soul
Interview by Bill Bentley, L.A. Weekly, 31 July 1986
Mick Hucknall in L.A. ...
Interview by Fred Schruers, Musician, April 1987
Mick Hucknall Knows What He Wants and Simply Red's Going to Get It. ...
Simply Red: The Life and Loves of a Red Devil
Interview by Stuart Bailie, Record Mirror, 23 May 1987
Mick 'footloose' Hucknall has done his fair share of living in the fast lane, but don't underestimate him; he can be a sensitive young man ...
Report and Interview by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 3 June 1987
What are Curiosity Killed The Cat, Boy George, Whitney Houston, Beastie Boys, A-ha and three squillion other pop stars doing in a little town in ...
Simply Red: Men And Women (Elektra)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Creem, July 1987
AFTER BEING totally ignored for six months after its release in mid-'85, Picture Book, Simply Red's deft debut album, kicked in with a flourish. The ...
Simply Red: Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Don Waller, L.A. Weekly, 22 October 1987
OPENING YOUR show with a nearly a cappella version of Ray Charles' 'Drown in My Own Tears' takes a lotta nerve. It also takes industrial-strength ...
Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, The Observer, 29 January 1989
Mick Hucknall bristles with social convictions but his songs aren't those of an angry young man. MARK COOPER meets the singer with a penchant for ...
Simply Red: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 11 January 1990
Slightly Red: Adam Sweeting on Hucknall and co — skilful but loutish at Wembley ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, November 1995
Still red — politically, tonsorially and Simply — the alleged panther-like Mick Hucknall is teetering on the brink of another globe-goosing success with the follow-up ...
Review by Andy Gill, Q, November 1995
MICK HUCKNALL has barely put a foot wrong over the past six years, since A New Flame set new, impeccable standards for Brit-soul back in ...
Interview by Ben Thompson, Independent on Sunday, 10 December 1995
Given that Lemmy of Motorhead's father was a priest, it makes a crazy kind of sense that Mick Hucknall's dad should have been a barber ...
Simply Red: Have You Got A Bit Of Manchester In You?
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, June 1998
And if not, would you like some? Beware, ladies, for it is Mick Hucknall, humbled by heartbreak but still hopping on like a russet-headed horny ...
Mick Hucknall: Songs of Freedom
Profile and Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Word, August 2003
Mick Hucknall is performing a record he made at home, released on Simply Red's label, in a restaurant he owns in Paris. This kind of ...
Mick Hucknall meets Bobby "Blue" Bland
Interview by Andria Lisle, MOJO, June 2008
He revolutionised soul in the early '60s, sings like an angel in anguish, and has influenced everyone from Otis Redding to Van Morrison. Now Bobby ...
Mick Hucknall: From Red To Blue
Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, July 2008
As the multi-million-selling figurehead of Simply Red, Mick Hucknall found himself in a creative cul-de-sac. On his debut solo album, a tribute to his idol ...
Let The Red Flag Fly: In Defence of Picture Book
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 27 October 2010
The Quietus battens down the hatches and prepares for a storm as Wyndham Wallace risks all to defend Simply Red's debut album, Picture Book, on ...
Here's to Mick Hucknall's amazing voice
Memoir by John Harris, The Guardian, 21 December 2011
Admitting I liked Simply Red didn't fit with the NME's Maoist indie conspiracy, but Hucknall's repertoire is studded with triumphs ...
see also Frantic Elevators
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