Listen to the exclusive premiere of SimplyRedHQ's CompleteLove
Mick Hucknall "didn't plan on making" a new Simply Red record for release this year. But whose "Complete Love" is premiering exclusively below, is not only coming out Nov. 8, but is exactly what the title advertises.
" really stemmed from a little conversation I had with an Irish friend of mine," Hucknall tells Billboard. "We had a few drinks, and at the end of it he just very casually said, 'Ah, you're a great soul singer,' and that really stuck in my head. I said, 'Well, what do people actually think I am? What is it? Is that how I'm actually perceived?' I started thinking about it and realized, 'You are actually a blue-eyed soul singer.
Hucknall may be the only one surprised by that, of course. He came to fame with Simply Red's debut album, 1985's platinum and its hits "Holding Back the Years" and a cover of the Valentine Brothers' "Money's Too Tight ." But over the intervening 10 band albums and two solo sets, the singer confesses to something of a contrary streak.
"I have this weird chink where I look at everything but the obvious," Hucknall acknowledges. "I've spent a lot of time creating jazz-type music and reggae-style music and all that. I'm sort of searching for something I've not done before, that I don't know about, this kind of curiosity that perhaps has gotten in the way of being consistent. So gave me a real focus into this kind of world that I love so much.
"Oh God, no. No plans to make any records -- but I never make plans to make any records," he says with a laugh. "I think what we're doing is we hope that by the time we do come and play, a relative percentage of our audience, perhaps out of sheer curiosity, will want to go listen to and at least be familiar with some of the songs when we come and play them.
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