Simply Red

Released: November 8, 2019

Songwriter: Mick Hucknall

Producer: Andy Wright

Take a good look at yourself
Take a good look at yourself
Are you happy with what you see?
Have you become all that you wanted to be?

You wanted to know
What in the world was giving you
But now you've found out, yeah
This earth don't owe you a single thing

Take a good look at yourself
Take a good look at yourself
Will you climb the mountain
And reach the top?
Live the life you need and never give up
Take a good look at yourself
Take a good look at yourself

You wanted to know
What in the world was giving you
But now you've found out, yeah
This earth don't owe you a single thing

Take a good look at yourself
Take a good look at yourself
Take a good look at yourself
Take a good look at yourself

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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