Simply Red Blue Music
by Simply Red

About this Music

Since exploding out of Manchester, England, Simply Red leader and singer Mick Hucknall has recorded some of pop's most memorable music, including 2 U.S. #1's: "Holding Back the Years" and "If You Don't Know Me By Now." Blue brims with the grace and exuberant uptempo grooves that have made each new Simply Red album an eagerly awaited event around the world. 1st single: "The Air that I Breathe" (on the album in 2 versions for multi-format servicing). [Note: This product is an authorized CD-R and is manufactured on demand]

Almost concurrent with the attempted credibility boost of Rod Stewart's When We Were the New Boys comes Mick Hucknall's nod to roots as diverse as Neil Young and reggae crooner Gregory Isaacs, along with a fistful of originals, on the sixth Simply Red album. Blue is the lifestyle music Hucknall was born to make, but given such high-flown material, it's hardly the embarrassment it might have been. Certainly, a recasting of Young's "Mellow My Mind" as boudoir fodder is more convincing than past missteps like the group's massacre of "If You Don't Know Me By Now." He should probably leave Aretha Franklin's catalog alone, though. --Rickey Wright