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English soul band November 2022 EngvarB November 2022 Infobox musical artist | name = Simply Red | image = Mick Hucknall singing.jpg | caption = Lead singer Mick Hucknall | origin = Manchester, England | genre = hlist|Pop music|Pop|Soul music|soul|blue-eyed soulcite book|editor-first= Colin |editor-last= Larkin |year= 2011 Encyclopedia of Popular Music |chapter= Simply Red |edition= 5th Music Sales Group|Omnibus Press |isbn= 978-0-85-712595-8|sophisti-popcite web Pop/Rock » Punk/New Wave » Sophisti-Pop AllMusic. All Media Network http://www.allmusic.com/style/sophisti-pop-ma0000011994 28 April 2016 | years_active = hlist|1985–2010|2015–present | label = hlist|Elektra Records|Elektra|East West Records|East West|Simplyred.com | website = URL|simplyred.com | current_members = * Mick Hucknall * Ian Kirkham * Kenji Suzuki * Kevin Robinson * Roman Roth * Gary Sanctuary * Orefo Orakwue | past_members = * #Members|See below ''Simply Red'' are an English soul music|soul and pop band formed in Manchester in 1985.Cite web Simply Red discography - RYM/Sonemic https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/simply_red 2023-09-25 Rate Your Music |language=en Band leader, singer and songwriter Mick Hucknall was the only original member left by the time Simply Red initially disbanded in 2010.cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3668826/Simply-Red-Splitting-up-is-never-easy.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3668826/Simply-Red-Splitting-up-is-never-easy.html 12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription live | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Neil | last=McCormick | title=Simply Red: Splitting up is never easy | date=26 October 2007cbignore They have released thirteen studio albums, from ''Picture Book (Simply Red album)|Picture Book'' (1985) through Time (Simply Red album)|''Time'' (2023, all of which have peaked within the top ten on the UK Albums Chart; with the albums ''A New Flame'' (1989, ''Stars (Simply Red album)|Stars'' (1991, Life (Simply Red album)|''Life'' (1995) and Blue (Simply Red album)|''Blue'' (1998, along with their Greatest Hits (Simply Red album)|''Greatest Hits'' (1996) album, reaching number one. Their 1991 album ''Stars'' is one of the List of best-selling albums in the United Kingdom|best-selling albums in the United Kingdom.cite web Top 40 Best Selling Albums: 28 July 1956 – 14 June 2009 http://www.bpi.co.uk/assets/files/top%2040%20albums.pdf 26 July 2011 Official Charts Company The group released ten songs that have reached the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart, including "Stars (Simply Red song)|Stars", the Fugees-assisted "Angel (Aretha Franklin song)#Simply Red version|Angel", "The Air That I Breathe#Simply Red version|The Air That I Breathe" and "Sunrise (Simply Red song)|Sunrise", with the single "Fairground (song)|Fairground" peaking atop the UK Singles Chart. Their singles "Holding Back the Years" and "If You Don't Know Me by Now" both reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100. At the 1992 and 1993 Brit Awards, they received the award for Best British Group.[http://www.brits.co.uk/artist/simply-red "Simply Red: BRITs Profile"]. Brit Awards. Retrieved 21 November 2012 They have received three Grammy Award nominations, including one for Grammy Award for Best New Artist|Best New Artist in 1987. Their version of "If You Don't Know Me by Now" won songwriters Gamble and Huff|Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff the Grammy Award for the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song|Best R&B Song. The band re-formed in 2015. Simply Red have sold over 50 million albums.cite web Simply Red to reunite for 30th anniversary tour https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29884145 BBC 25 March 2017