Simply Red

Released: October 14, 1985

Songwriter: Mick Hucknall

Producer: Stewart Levine

Right from the start you tried to hurt me
But look at you now, behaving like a fool
A long time ago you treated me so mean but

Chorus:
Look at you now
Look at you now

You threw me away like litter in the gutter
I had to pick my self up and find something better

-chorus-

I looked so hard, I'm looking hard now
Looking at your head

Don't talk about birthdays, that don't mean a thing to me
Don't throw it in my face, it's too sweet to sting

-chorus-

I kept on looking hard (repeat)
Looking at your head, head!!!

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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