Simply Red

Released: November 8, 2019

Songwriter: Mick Hucknall

Producer: Andy Wright

Ring that bell
Why don't you ring it well
Ring that bell
Why don't you ring it well

There's some bad men messing with our future
Let's give them hell
Raise the alarm
Raise the alarm
And ring that bell

Come on now, hit it hard for me
Sometimes we gotta fight for that right to be free

There's some bad men messing with our future
Let's give them hell

Play the ding dong hard
Play your ding dong smart
And ring that bell (ring it)
Why don't you ring it well (ring it)
Play the ding dong hard
Play your ding dong smart
And ring that bell
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Bad men messing with our future
Let's give them hell (hell!)
Raise the alarm
Raise the alarm
And ring that bell (ring it)

Come on now, hit it hard for me
Sometimes we gotta fight for that right to be free

There's some bad men messing with our future
Let's give them hell

Play the ding dong hard
Play your ding dong smart
And ring that bell (ring it)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (ring it)
I'm ringing it, ringing it
I'm ringing it (ringing it)
I'm ringing it (ringing it)
I'm ringing it (ringing it)
I'm ringing it (ringing it)
I'm ringing it (ringing it)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
We're ringing that bell (ringing it)
Ringing that bell (ringing it)
(Ringing it)

Simply Red is a British soul and pop band. The first incarnation of the band was a punk group called The Frantic Elevators, whose seven-year run produced limited releases on local labels and ended in 1984 upon critical acclaim for their final single, “Holding Back the Years”.

By early 1985, Mick Hucknall and manager Elliot Rashman had assembled a band of local session musicians and begun to attract record company attention. The group adopted the name “Red” (after Hucknall’s nickname, denoting his hair colour) but then Mick decided it would sound better with the addition of the word ‘Simply.’

Since the mid 1980s, the band has sold more than 50 million albums.

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