Frantic Elevators, April 1982

Mick Hucknall before Simply Red

When Mick Hucknall first appeared on the scene, in what I described in this review as “scruffy Mancunians”, everyone commented how like John Lennon he sounded. A few years later, he’d reinvented himself as a soul singer with Simply Red. It was quite a change of image but it didn’t do his career any harm.

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