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4 unusual facts about Simply Red


For the Last Time

The first episode aired on 25 September 2010, presented by Christine Bleakley, starring Simply Red and The Birmingham Irish Pipes and Drums.

Ganter Brewery

The grounds of the brewery played host to a concert by Diana Ross in 2005 (as part of the firm's 140th anniversary celebrations), and in 2006 the inner courtyard was used by Simply Red and Dieter Thomas Kuhn.

Scala Browne Agency

Mim produced the first direct to disk album for the band Warsaw Pakt, before founding "ESP Music and Management", an agency which represented record producers, Chris Kimsey (Rolling Stones), Stuart Levine (Simply Red) and B.B. King.

The Montreux EP

"The Montreux EP" is an EP released by Simply Red in fall 1992.


Cork's 96FM

This was followed by Neil Prendeville's first show, the first song played was "A New Flame" by Simply Red – a chart hit at the time.

Douglas Sannachan

He played a pantomime dame in the Simply Red video for the track Jericho from the album Picture Book.

Garry Roberts

After The Boomtown Rats broke up in 1986, Roberts worked with Simply Red, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Flesh For Lulu in the role of sound engineer on tours in the UK and US.

Goathland railway station

It is famous for appearing in the television series Heartbeat, as Hogsmeade station the Hogwarts Express stop at in the Harry Potter films and in the end of the video of Holding Back the Years, a Simply Red song released in 1985.

Lamont Dozier

Three years later, Dozier cowrote "Infidelity" and "Suffer" with Simply Red frontman Mick Hucknall for the British pop-soul band's second album, Men and Women.

North Yorkshire Moors Railway

Goathland station features on the 1985 music video for Simply Red's Holding Back the Years.

Sergio Caputo

Prestigious collaborations in Sergio's career include those with Lester Bowie, Tony Scott, Mel Collins (King Crimson), Tony Bowers (Simply Red), Enrico Rava and Danilo Rea.

Simply Red 25: The Greatest Hits

Simply Red 25: The Greatest Hits is a 2008 album, released by Simply Red, as both a standard and deluxe edition which contained material from their 25-year career.


see also

Dolly James

She also appeared with Simply Red on the David Letterman show and numerous other US television programmes.