Complete List Of Simply Red Songs From A to Z

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Simply Red formed in Manchester in 1985 with singer and songwriter Mick Hucknall at the center. After his earlier group, the Frantic Elevators, ended, Hucknall and manager Elliot Rashman assembled a new band from Manchester musicians. The first recorded lineup included David Fryman, Tony Bowers, Fritz McIntyre, Tim Kellett, and Chris Joyce, while Hucknall remained the one constant through every later version of the group.

The debut album, Picture Book, joined original songs with carefully selected soul material. “Money’s Too Tight (To Mention)” became the first major international hit, while a new recording of “Holding Back the Years” reached Number 1 in the United States in 1986. The album established Simply Red’s combination of pop, soul, jazz, and rhythm and blues, all carried by Hucknall’s immediately recognizable voice.

Men and Women followed in 1987 with a more polished and funk-oriented sound. A New Flame arrived in 1989 and produced the band’s second American Number 1 single with “If You Don’t Know Me by Now.” The success of that recording confirmed that Simply Red could move between original songwriting and classic soul interpretations without losing its identity.

The commercial peak came with Stars in 1991. The album became one of the best-selling records in British history and produced “Something Got Me Started,” “Stars,” “For Your Babies,” “Thrill Me,” and “Your Mirror.” Life followed in 1995 and included “Fairground,” Simply Red’s only Number 1 single in the United Kingdom.

The group continued through Blue, Love and the Russian Winter, Home, Simplified, and Stay. After the original record-company relationship ended, Hucknall developed Simplyred.com as both a label and direct-release platform. “Sunrise,” “Fake,” “You Make Me Feel Brand New,” and “So Not Over You” kept the band active on British and European charts during the 2000s.

Simply Red concluded a farewell tour in 2010 but returned in 2015 with Big Love. Blue Eyed Soul followed in 2019, and Time arrived in 2023. Those albums extended the studio catalog through songs including “Shine On,” “Complete Love,” “Thinking of You,” “Better with You,” and “Just Like You.”

The band marked its fortieth anniversary with an international tour in 2025. That year also brought Recollections, a forty-track album of newly recorded versions of songs spanning the full Simply Red catalog. The project revisited “Holding Back the Years,” “If You Don’t Know Me by Now,” “Stars,” “Fairground,” “Sunrise,” and thirty-five additional favorites with the contemporary touring band.

In 2026, the concert release Holding Back the Years: 40 Years of Simply Red, Live in Santiago documented the anniversary performances filmed in Chile. Across more than four decades, Simply Red’s catalog has remained connected by Hucknall’s songwriting, his interpretation of soul standards, and a rotating group of musicians capable of reshaping the music without erasing its original character.

Complete List Of Simply Red Songs From A to Z

A–E

“Ain’t That a Lot of Love” – Love and the Russian Winter – 1999
“Ain’t That a Lot of Love (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“The Air That I Breathe” – Blue – 1998
“The Air That I Breathe (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“The Air That I Breathe Reprise” – Blue – 1998
“Angel (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Back into the Universe” – Love and the Russian Winter – 1999
“BadBootz” – Blue Eyed Soul – 2019
“Better with You” – Time – 2023
“Big Love” – Big Love – 2015
“Blue” – Blue – 1998
“Broken Man” – Blue – 1998
“Butterflies” – Time – 2023
“Chula” – Blue Eyed Soul – 2019
“Close to You” – Love and the Russian Winter – 1999
“Come Get Me Angel” – Blue – 1998
“Come to My Aid” – Picture Book – 1985
“Come to My Aid (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Coming Home” – Big Love – 2015
“Complete Love” – Blue Eyed Soul – 2019
“Dad” – Big Love – 2015
“Daydreaming” – Big Love – 2015
“The Death of the Cool” – Stay – 2007
“Debris” – Stay – 2007
“Don’t Do Down” – Blue Eyed Soul – 2019
“Each Day” – Big Love – 2015
“Earth in a Lonely Space” – Time – 2023
“Enough” – A New Flame – 1989
“Enough (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye” – Men and Women – 1987
“Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye” – Simplified – 2005
“Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025

F–J

“Fairground” – Life – 1995
“Fairground” – Simplified – 2005
“Fairground (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Fake” – Home – 2003
“Fake (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“For Your Babies” – Stars – 1991
“For Your Babies” – Simplified – 2005
“For Your Babies (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Freedom” – Stars – 1991
“Ghetto Girl” – Blue – 1998
“The Ghost of Love” – Big Love – 2015
“Good Times Have Done Me Wrong” – Stay – 2007
“Heart of Gold” – Big Love – 2015
“Heaven” – Picture Book – 1985
“Heaven (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Hey Mister” – Time – 2023
“High Fives” – Blue – 1998
“Hillside Avenue” – Life – 1995
“Holding Back the Years” – Picture Book – 1985
“Holding Back the Years” – Simplified – 2005
“Holding Back the Years (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Home” – Home – 2003
“Home Loan Blues” – Home – 2003
“Home (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Home (Reprise)” – Home – 2003
“How Could I Fall” – Stars – 1991
“I Won’t Feel Bad” – Men and Women – 1987
“If You Don’t Know Me by Now” – A New Flame – 1989
“If You Don’t Know Me by Now (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Infidelity” – Men and Women – 1987
“It’s Only Love” – A New Flame – 1989
“It’s Only Love (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“It’s You” – Home – 2003
“It Wouldn’t Be Me” – Time – 2023
“Jericho” – Picture Book – 1985
“Jericho (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Just Like You” – Time – 2023
“Just Like You, Pt. 2” – Time – 2023
“Just Like You (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025

K–O

“Lady” – Stay – 2007
“Let Me Have It All” – Men and Women – 1987
“Let Your Hair Down” – Time – 2023
“Little Englander” – Stay – 2007
“Lives and Loves” – Life – 1995
“Look at You Now” – Picture Book – 1985
“Look at You Now (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Lost Weekend” – Home – 2003
“Love Fire” – Men and Women – 1987
“Love Gave Me More” – Big Love – 2015
“Love Has Said Goodbye Again” – Blue – 1998
“Love Lays Its Tune” – A New Flame – 1989
“Love Wonders” – Big Love – 2015
“Man Made the Gun” – Love and the Russian Winter – 1999
“Maybe Someday…” – Men and Women – 1987
“Mellow My Mind” – Blue – 1998
“Mellow My Mind (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Model” – Stars – 1991
“Money in My Pocket” – Home – 2003
“Money in My Pocket (Plan B mix)” – Home – 2003
“Money’s Too Tight (to Mention)” – Picture Book – 1985
“Money’s Too Tight (To Mention) (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Money TV” – Stay – 2007
“More” – A New Flame – 1989
“More” – Simplified – 2005
“More (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“More Than a Dream” – Love and the Russian Winter – 1999
“Move on Out” – Men and Women – 1987
“My Perfect Love” – Simplified – 2005
“Never Be Gone” – Time – 2023
“Never Never Love” – Life – 1995
“Never Never Love (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“A New Flame” – A New Flame – 1989
“A New Flame (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Night Nurse” – Blue – 1998
“Night Nurse (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“No Direction” – Picture Book – 1985
“Oh! What a Girl!” – Stay – 2007
“The Old Man and the Beer” – Big Love – 2015
“(Open Up the) Red Box” – Picture Book – 1985
“(Open Up the) Red Box (Recollections 2025)” – Recollections – 2025
“Out on the Range” – Life – 1995