SIMPLY RED
RECOLLECTIONS
© Dean Chalkley
MUSIC ON VINYL
Battlelines have been drawn over lesser matters, yet few bands have proven more divisive than Simply Red. After 1985’s Picture Book, they opened for James Brown, yet NME branded them: “As cliché-ridden as the ugliest offspring of gothic interbreeding,” and even Swing Out Sister considered frontman Mick Hucknall “The most reviled man in Manchester.”