Blue – Simply Red

Tracklist

1. Mellow My Mind

Baby mellow my mind
Make me feel, like a schoolboy on good time
Jugglin’ nickels and dimes
Satisfied with the fish on the line

I’ve been down the road and I’ve come back
Lonesome whistle on the railroad track
Ain’t got nothin’ on those feelings that I had

Something so hard to find
A situation, that could casualise your mind

I’ve been down the road and I’ve come back
Lonesome whistle on the railroad track
Ain’t got nothin’ on those feelings that I had

I’ve been down the road and I’ve come back
Lonesome whistle on the railroad track
Ain’t got nothin’ on those feelings that I had.

Baby mellow my mind
Make me feel, like a schoolboy on good time
Jugglin’ nickels and dimes
Satisfied with a fish on the line

Words and music Neil Young
Warner Chappell Music Ltd

2. Blue

I’m blue, blue like a Monday morning

Raised up in a way that I can value
All the material things that I could ever really need don’t matter
So many ways that I can thank you
But you know that I am here and no-one else in this world will matter

I’m blue, blue like a Monday morning
It’s true, it’s you that’s got me yearning

For a love that will last forever
Wishing that somebody somewhere
Would break through these wrought iron doors and just smile
Because I’m blue

I can’t get emote to try and tell you
All the love that I have
Am I ever gonna make it happen?
So many ways that I can thank you
But you know that I’m here and no-one else in this
world will matter

I’m blue, blue like a Monday morning
It’s true, it’s you that’s got me yearning

Because I’m blue. Nobody knows that I’m blue

Words and music Mick Hucknall
EMI Music Publishing Ltd/So What Ltd

3. Say You Love Me SINGLE

Being one of those grains of sand
I get blown all around the world
And what I make of it
Oh I don’t know
What’s the meaning of it
Oh I don’t know

I’ve been around so many times
That the worlds turning in my mind
What do I think of it
Oh it’s so so

What more can you be than the things they say you’ve been

Say you love me all around the world
Stay and hug me all around the world
Be yours a boy or be mine a girl
Just say you love me
Just say you love me

I never ever realised
It’s so easy to make you cry
But did I break a bit
Oh I hope no
Have you forgot about it
Oh I hope so

But you never ever wonder why
In every single pair of eyes
There is a hunger in it
Or it’s soul dies

What more can you be than the things they say you’ve been

Say you love me all around the world
Stay and hug me all around the world
Be yours a boy or be mine a girl

Say you love me all around the world
Stay and hug me all around the world
Be yours a boy or be mine a girl
Just say you love me

Come on now darling, say you love me
Oh yeah, please please say you love me
Come on say you love me

Words and music Mick Hucknall
EMI Music Publishing Ltd/So What Ltd

4. To Be Free SINGLE

To be free
Or to feel free
The first one is a myth

Yeah to be free
Or to feel free
The first one is a myth

For to be is to feel and to be real is to see

You want more
You say you want me
He left us alone as day was dawning

You got more
Did you get me
Red sleeps after sunrise has fallen

You hard core
You’re hard on me
You’re dressed up at dawn way before me

Bereft as the sunlight was falling upon me

To be free
Or to feel free
The first one is a myth

To be is to feel and to be real is to see

To come is so organic unbelievable
A solitary sign to open up your mind
A love that’s so organic unbelievable
A solitary sign to open up your mind

Open up your mind

Words and music Mick Hucknall
EMI Music Publishing Ltd/So What Ltd

5. The Air That I Breathe SINGLE

If I could make a wish I think I’d pass
Can’t think of anything I need
No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound
Nothing to eat no books to read
Making love with you, has left me peaceful warm inside
What more could I ask
There’s nothing left to be desired

Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe yes to love you
Just to have you now
All I need is the air that I breathe you’re all I want

Peace came upon me and it breathes in me
Don’t sleep silent angel don’t you sleep

Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you just to have you now
All I need is the air that I breathe yes to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe you’re all I want

Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe yes to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe

Words and music Hammond/Hazelwood
Rondor Music (London) Ltd

6. Someday In My Life

Here from the top of a mountain
I see you there
In the cool night air
Someday in my life

Fear has no reason to doubt them
They tell me so
Yet they will never know
You are here in my life

Wherever I go now
I’ll follow you
And my heart will be true
I have never known someone
To stay right here
Soon you will be right here
Someday in my life

Piano solo

Here from the top of a mountain
I see you there
In the cool night air
Someday in my life

Storms may rage on about them
They hail and snow
Yet they will never know
You are here in my life

Wherever I go now
I’ll follow you
And my heart will be true
I have never known someone
To stay right here
Soon you will be right here
Someday in my life

Words and music Mick Hucknall
EMI Music Publishing Ltd/So What Ltd

7. The Air That I Breathe Reprise

Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe yes to love you
Just to have you now
All I need is the air that I breathe you’re all I want

Peace came upon me and it breathes in me
Don’t sleep silent angel don’t you sleep

Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you just to have you now
All I need is the air that I breathe yes to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe you’re all I want

Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe yes to love you
All I need is the air that I breathe

Words and music Hammond/Hazelwood
Rondor Music (London) Ltd

8. Night Nurse SINGLE

Tell her try her best just to make it quick
Woman tend to the sick
Because there must be something she can do
This heart is broken in two
Tell her it’s a case of emergency
There’s a patient by the name of Mickey

Night nurse
Only you alone can quench this here thirst
My night nurse, Oh God
Oh the pain is getting worse

I don’t want to see no Doc
I need attendance from my nurse around the clock
Because there’s no prescription for me
She’s the one, the only remedy

My night nurse
Only you alone can quench this here thirst

My night nurse
Oh the pain is getting worse
I’m hurt my love

I don’t want to see no Doc
I need attendance from my nurse around the clock
Because there’s no prescription for me
She’s the one, the only remedy

Night nurse
Only you alone can quench this here thirst

My night nurse
Oh the pain is getting worse
I’m hurt my love
And I’m sure, no ,no doctor got a cure

My night nurse
My night nurse
My night nurse

Words and music Gregory Isaacs & Sylvester Weise
Charisma Music Publishing Ltd/EMI Copyright Holdings Ltd

9. Broken Man

Now I am a broken man, Now I am a broken man
Now I am a broken man, Now I am a broken man

It’s no good being here with me
I’m a little scared of the things you see
It’s no good having friends at all
They do me no good, they don’t do me no good at all

It’s no good living in the past
It’s no good at all you know it don’t last
It’s no good making a change
There’s nothing to change I don’t want to rearrange

But what I wanna do is spend some time with you
But I know I can’t because all you want is you

So now I am a broken man
Now I am a broken man
Now I am a broken man
I am a broken man

I saw my shadow on the wall
It looked at me then left me
I’m hoping somebody will call
But I hope they don’t come and get me at all

Because what I wanna do is spend some time with you
But I know I can’t because all you want is you

So now I am a broken man
Now I am a broken man
Now I am a broken man
I am a broken man

Words and music Mick Hucknall
EMI Music Publishing Ltd/So What Ltd

10. Come Get Me Angel

This one’s going out to you girl, wherever you may be
I may not be the way you wanted it, I got a need to be free
Yet I know that I need someone and I’m calling out to you
Come get me girl, come get me baby,
I need you, I need you in my life

Whatever it takes to change girl, maybe I’ll do it for you
If you can go as deep as I go, baby I’m gonna need you
I want you to be my girl, I want you to be my world
Not any night, not always in my life, I need you

I want you to be my girl, I want you to be my world
Not any night not always, but when it’s right for you and me
Alright when it’s alright, hey in my life

She’ll be there and don’t you worry
Keep looking and just keep cooking

Words and music Carolyn Franklyn & Sony Saunders
Re-written by Mick Hucknall
Carlin Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd/So What Ltd

11. Ghetto Girl SINGLE

Stay at home, now
That little girl was born on the ghetto side of town
She knows every trick in the book and she certainly gets around
She’s been with many men since she was only ten
She never stay at home, she’s always on the town

Your mamma is wondering where you are
What do you see at night when you’re under the stars

Stay at home
Sister stay at home
Don’t let your mamma down
Don’t be a run around

Stay at home
Sister stay at home
Don’t let your mamma down
Don’t be a run around
Stay at home, now

That little girl was born on the ghetto side of town
She knows every trick in the book and she certainly gets around
She’s been with many men since she was only ten
She never stay at home, she’s always on the town

Your mamma is wondering where you are
What do you see at night when you’re under the stars
Baby keep on running and you won’t get far
You like to travel with all those movie stars
You like a hangin’ in the big long shiny cars

Sister stay at home
Don’t let your mamma down, no no no no

Words and music Dennis Brown
Basement Music Ltd

12. Love Has Said Goodbye Again

Love has said goodbye again. See the road we go down
When the wind dies down come the tears
That bring a new beginning

Love has said goodbye again feel the road we go down
We are here but the way we are here is changing

There are many things here in this world
That make me laugh
Comes a dream, comes a dream
Hey Laugh Hey Laugh

Love has said goodbye again. Feel the road we go down
From the clear new year comes the dream of a new tomorrow

There are many things here in this world
Are gonna make me laugh
Comes a dream
Hey laugh, hey laugh, hey laugh

Love has said goodbye again. Feel the road we go down
From the clear new year comes the dream of a new tomorrow
From the clear new year comes the dream of a new tomorrow
From the clear new year comes the dream
Comes a dream

Words and music Mick Hucknall
EMI Music Publishing Ltd/So What Ltd

13. High Fives

High fives, truly night jive
Living in the night time
Soul man, golden old man
Weathering the time sands

This whole rhythm gives me what I need
Praying hard as your lifetime
Praying hard as your lifetime
Praying hard as your lifetime goes by

White lines fooling my kind
Living for the night time
Hold hands, home in old land
Weathering the time sands

This whole rhythm gives me what I need
Praying hard as your lifetime
Praying hard as your lifetime
Praying hard as your lifetime goes by

Goes by

Words and music Mick Hucknall
EMI Music Publishing Ltd/So What Ltd

Album Credits

Vocals: Mick Hucknall
Backing vocals: Dee Johnson, Sarah Brown & Mick Hucknall
Guitars: Mark Jaimes, Tony Remy, Kenji Jammer, Gitsy Wills & Bub Roberts
Bass: CJ Taylor, Robbie Shakespeare & Steve Lewinson
Keyboards: Tim Vine, Paul Carrack, Alan Clark & Robert Lyn
Drums: Gota Yashiki, Velroy Bailey, Sly Dunbar & Geoff Holroyde
DJ: Dom T
Brass: Ian Kirkham saxophones, John Johnson trombone, Mike Greenwood trumpet and flugelhorn & Demo Morselli trumpet
Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra of London. Arranged and conducted by David Sinclair Whitaker

Worldwide Representation:
Andy Dodd and Lindy Fretwell at Silent Way Ltd, assisted by Josephine Burston
In association with Lisa Barbaris for So What Media & Management Inc

Photography: Zanna
Photography Art Direction: Carolyn Quartermaine
Location: St Barthélemy, thanks to all the crew, Jacques Malignon and the islanders
Print and Campaign Design: Intro, London
Mick Hucknall wears Krizia

Produced by AGM:
Andy Wright
Gota Yashiki
Mick Hucknall

Programmed by:
Andy Wright
Gota Yashiki

Additional Programming: Steve Hilton, Aidan Love, Ned Douglas

Recorded at:
Westpoint Studios, London
Funny Bunny Studios, London
Whitfield Street Studios, London
Abbey Road Studios, London
Anchor Studios, Kingston, Jamaica
Hit Factory, New York

Mastered by: Kevin Metcalfe at Townhouse, London

Engineered and Mixed by:
John Lee, Roland Herrington, Femi Jiya, Ali Stayton, Ned Douglas, Dave Tyler, Lynford ‘Fatta’ Marshall, Alex Marou, Peter Cobbin, Ted Wohlsen, Tony Masarati, Paul Logus, Mark Wyllie, Jon Jacobs

Assisted by: Neil Mason, Jake Davies, David Russell, Andy Scade, Ricky Graham, Derek Grey, Mak Togashi, Andrew Dudman, Douglas Blair
Pre-production programming: Merv Pearson
All tracks used by kind permission of the publishers

Love and respect to all my true friends, Mick Hucknall

15 September 1998 17 September 1998
London, UK : The Lyceum

19 September 1998 20 September 1998
London, UK : The Lyceum

22 September 1998 24 September 1998
London, UK : The Lyceum

23 June 1999 24 June 1999
Cape Town, South Africa : Belleville Velodrome

27 June 1999
Durban, South Africa : Kings Park Stadium

29 June 1999 01 July 1999
Johannesburg, South Africa : MTN Sundome

09 July 1999
Copenhagen, Denmark : Tivoli Gardens

10 July 1999
Nijmegen, Holland : Goffertpark

16 July 1999
Zeebrugge, Belgium : Belgian Beach Festival

17 July 1999
Bellinzona, Switzerland : Bellinzona Festival

18 July 1999
Salzburg, Austria : Residenzplatz

21 July 1999
Graz, Austria : Lake Schwarzyl

22 July 1999
Nyon, Switzerland : Paleo Nyon Festival

24 July 1999 25 July 1999
Cardiff, UK : Cardiff Castle

30 July 1999 31 July 1999
London, UK : Hyde Park

07 August 1999
Lisbon, Portugal : Expo ’98

08 August 1999
La Coruna, Spain : Riazor Beach

13 August 1999 14 August 1999
Warwick, UK : Warwick Castle

18 August 1999
Belfast, N. Ireland : Kings Park Showground

22 August 1999
Manchester, UK : Haydock Racecourse

27 August 1999
Wiesbaden, Germany : Kurhaus Bowling Green

28 August 1999
Dresden, Germany : Elbufer

29 August 1999
Munich, Germany : Konigsplatz

31 August 1999
Berlin, Germany : Partkbunhe Wuhlheide

02 September 1999
Hannover, Germany : Sportpark

03 September 1999
Essen, Germany : Grugahalle

04 September 1999
Stuttgart, Germany : Freilishtbuhne

31 December 1999
London, UK : National Maritime Museum (park), Greenwich
On New Years Eve 1999, Simply Red delivered a stunning 4 song set at the British Gas Millennium Party in Greenwich. They opened proceedings with “Fairground” followed by a very well received version of “My Way” then “Holding Back The Years” and “Stars”. Immediately afterwards Mick, Ian Kirkham and Mark Jaimes were given a police escort to The Dome, where they arrived just in time to deliver an epic version of “Wave The Old World Goodbye” for the Queen and other guests and featuring a 98 piece orchestra and full choir! Midnight was seen in backstage at The Dome with Irish group The Corrs and then the party continued through the night back in Greenwich……

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