Simply Red review – Mick Hucknall keeps holding on
The singer radiates contentment as a sea of middle-aged couples sway along to his pop-soul smashers
October 2019
Pass notes
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
September 2019
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
November 2018
How we made
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?”’
June 2018
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
October 2016
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
September 2016
Pass notes
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
December 2015
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
May 2015
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
January 2013
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
November 2012
From the Guardian archive
Mercury prize at 20: 1992 shortlist for music award described as 'slightly eccentric'
Originally published in the Guardian on 17 July 1992: : One jazz, one classical, and one world music album have made it, along with U2, Simply Red, and the Jesus and Mary Chain
October 2012
Soundtrack of my life
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
September 2012
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
December 2011
Comment advent calendar 2011
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
July 2011
Love music love food: pop will eat itself
From Cliff Richard's passion for chicken tikka to Noel Gallagher's favourite cuppa and Tinie Tempah's love of seafood linguine, music stars give us a taste of their favourite foods and drinks
December 2010
Simply Red – review
There was stuff in this Simply Red show that was unctuous and awful – runny ballads like For Your Babies – but there were also moments of glossy perfection: Fairground, the drifting Thrill Me, writes Alexis Petridis
Media Monkey
Mick Hucknall: the number's too high to mention
Media Monkey: Guardian admits it got it wrong when it wrote he had slept with 1,000 women – the correct figure was 3,000
Win the World Cup, boys, not the right to hold it
Barbara Ellen
Sleeve notes
Sleeve Notes: Mick Hucknall just wants to say sorry ...
