Mick Hucknall
Why Mick Hucknall may not have slept with 3,000 women
The Simply Red singer has claimed he was taken far too literally when he estimated his number of sexual partners
21, Oct, 2019 @3:10 PM
Bowie's gnome and Dr Dre's hospital: musicians' embarrassing early songs
Pop duo Tegan and Sara have re-recorded their high school songs – and they’re not the only songwriters to have started young
Michael Hann
25, Sep, 2019 @8:32 AM
Simply Red: how we made Holding Back the Years
‘When the song became a hit my mum tracked me down, but I thought: “My dad was there for me every day. You think you can just walk back into my life and it be OK?”’
Interviews by Dave Simpson
27, Nov, 2018 @6:00 AM
Quincy Jones: A Life in Song review – a fitfully festive birthday bash
The musician-producer marks his 85th birthday by inviting stars from Mick Hucknall to Corinne Bailey Rae to reprise his hits, while he sprinkles anecdotes from the sides
Michael Hann
28, Jun, 2018 @1:29 PM
It’s only doc’n’roll: the music documentaries they'll never make
Forget albums – in 2016 it’s all about having your own film. Now Oasis are next with Supersonic, here are some less likely ideas for band fly-on-the-walls
Joe Zadeh
03, Oct, 2016 @8:00 AM
Has Corbyn been endorsed by the right half of UB40?
The famously divided band have offered to share a stage with the Labour leader at a press conference in London – and the irony has not been lost on anyone
06, Sep, 2016 @1:45 PM
Simply Red review – sublime and ridiculous rumpity pumpity
Groin-thrusting redhead Mick Hucknall is a time-travelling compere with a crystal voice in this oddly compelling nostalgia trip
Dave Simpson
06, Dec, 2015 @11:18 AM
Simply Red: Big Love review – easy-listening epitaphs from Mick Hucknall
Hucknall has said this 11th Simply Red album may be their last, and there is a wizened nostalgia hanging above this blue-eyed soul
Harriet Gibsone
28, May, 2015 @8:30 PM
Mick Hucknall and Stereophonics join forces to cover the Beatles
Artists set to re-record Beatles debut Please Please Me at Abbey Road studios for the BBC
Sean Michaels
18, Jan, 2013 @1:06 PM
Mick Hucknall: soundtrack of my life
The former Simply Red frontman tells Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy about how the Beatles, Buzzcocks and Mozart changed his life
Interview by Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy
27, Oct, 2012 @11:19 PM
Mick Hucknall – review
Hucknall's covers-only tour shows his appreciation of soul and blues, but smacks of an attempt to take credit for the classics, writes Mark Beaumont
Mark Beaumont
19, Sep, 2012 @4:23 PM
Here's to Mick Hucknall's amazing voice | John Harris
John Harris: Season of goodwill: Admitting I liked Simply Red didn't fit with the NME's Maoist indie conspiracy, but Hucknall's repertoire is studded with triumphs
John Harris
21, Dec, 2011 @7:59 AM
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