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Simply Red

Index Simply Red

Simply Red are a British soul and pop band which formed in 1983 in Manchester. [1]

108 relations: A New Flame, All Media Network, AllMusic, Andy Wright (music producer), Angel (Aretha Franklin song), Arbon, Aretha Franklin, Aziz Ibrahim, Big Love (Simply Red album), Billboard Hot 100, Blue (Simply Red album), Blue-eyed soul, Brit Award for British Album of the Year, Brit Award for British Group, Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist, Brit Award for British Single of the Year, Brit Award for British Video of the Year, Brit Awards, Buzzcocks, Chocolate Puma, Chris Joyce, Cover version, East West Records, Elektra Records, England, Everyday People (band), Fairground (song), Fake (Simply Red song), Floy Joy (band), For Your Babies, Free Trade Hall, Fritz McIntyre, Fugees, Germany, Gota Yashiki, Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, Greatest Hits (Simply Red album), Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Heitor Pereira, Holding Back the Years, Holland–Dozier–Holland, Home (Simply Red album), Ian Kirkham, If You Don't Know Me by Now, Joy Division, Lamont Dozier, Life (Simply Red album), ..., List of artists who reached number one in the United States, List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart, List of best-selling albums in the United Kingdom, List of Billboard number-one dance club songs, List of Billboard number-one singles, Love and the Russian Winter, Manchester, Manchester United F.C., Mark E. Smith, Men and Women (album), Mick Hucknall, Money's Too Tight (to Mention), Motown, MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist, Munich, Music Sales Group, Netherlands, Odense, Official Charts Company, Olive (band), Picture Book (Simply Red album), Pollstar, Pop music, Post-punk, Punk rock, Red, Republic of Ireland, Sex Pistols, Simplified (album), Simply Red, Sly and Robbie, Something Got Me Started, Sophisti-pop, Soul music, Stars (Simply Red album), Stars (Simply Red song), Stay (Simply Red album), Sunrise (Simply Red song), Sylvan Richardson, The Air That I Breathe, The Durutti Column, The Fall (band), The Mothmen, The O2 Arena, The Right Thing, The Smiths, The Stylistics, The Valentine Brothers, Tim Kellett, Tony Bowers, Tribute to Bobby, UK Singles Chart, You Make Me Feel Brand New, 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, 1990 Brit Awards, 1997 Brit Awards, 29th Annual Grammy Awards, 32nd Annual Grammy Awards. Expand index (58 more) »

A New Flame

A New Flame is the third album by British pop group Simply Red, released in February 1989.

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All Media Network

All Media Network (formerly All Media Guide (AMG) and AllRovi) is an American company that owns and maintains AllMusic, AllMovie, AllGame (until its closure in 2014), SideReel and Celebified.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Andy Wright (music producer)

Andy Wright (born 1962, Nottingham) is a London-based music producer, songwriter and arranger notable for his work with international artists such as Mick Hucknall and Simply Red, Luciano Pavarotti, Eurythmics, Jeff Beck, Dave Stewart, Toše Proeski, Simple Minds, The KLF, Atomic Kitten, Natalie Imbruglia, Annie Lennox, Shakespears Sister, Gianna Nannini, Imelda May, Gibonni and Andreas Vollenweider.

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Angel (Aretha Franklin song)

"Angel" is a soul ballad recorded by American singer Aretha Franklin.

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Arbon

Arbon is a historic and statistic town and a municipality and district capital of the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Aziz Ibrahim

Aziz-Ur-Rahman Ibrahim (born March 1964) is a British musician.

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Big Love (Simply Red album)

Big Love is the eleventh studio album by British pop group Simply Red.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Blue (Simply Red album)

Blue is the sixth studio album by Simply Red, released on East West Records on 19 May 1998.

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Blue-eyed soul

Blue-eyed soul (also known as white soul) is rhythm and blues and soul music performed by white artists.

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Brit Award for British Album of the Year

The Brit Award for British Album of the Year is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom.

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Brit Award for British Group

The Brit Award for British Group is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom.

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Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist

The Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom.

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Brit Award for British Single of the Year

The Brit Award for British Single of the Year is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom.

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Brit Award for British Video of the Year

The Brit Award for British Video of the Year is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom.

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Brit Awards

The BRIT Awards (often simply called The BRITs) are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards.

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Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band, formed in Bolton, England, in 1976 by singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto.

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Chocolate Puma

Zki & Dobre are a DJ and music production duo from Haarlem, Netherlands, consisting of René ter Horst ("DJ Zki") and Gaston Steenkist ("Dobre").

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Chris Joyce

Chris Joyce (born Manchester, England, 11 October 1957) is known for being drummer with various groups, and with Simply Red in the 1980s.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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East West Records

East West Records (stylized as eastwest from 1990 to 2001) is a record label formed in 1955, distributed and owned by Warner Music Group, headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Everyday People (band)

Everyday People was a funk musical group formed in England who recorded one album and had success with a few singles across Europe.

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Fairground (song)

"Fairground" is a 1995 single released by Simply Red from the album Life.

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Fake (Simply Red song)

"Fake" is a song written and recorded by British soft rock group Simply Red.

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Floy Joy (band)

Floy Joy was an English group formed in Sheffield, England, who recorded two albums and had minor success with a small few singles.

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For Your Babies

"For Your Babies" is a 1991 song by Simply Red.

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Free Trade Hall

The Free Trade Hall in Peter Street, Manchester, England, was a public hall constructed in 1853–56 on St Peter's Fields, the site of the Peterloo Massacre and is now a Radisson hotel.

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Fritz McIntyre

Fritz McIntyre (born 2 September 1958 in Birmingham, England) is a British musician, most famous for his tenure as keyboard player in the original line-up of Simply Red.

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Fugees

Fugees (sometimes The Fugees; formerly Tranzlator Crew) was an American hip hop group who rose to fame in the early-1990s.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gota Yashiki

is a Japanese musician, both an independent acid jazz artist and drum/bass player, as a member of the band Simply Red.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grammy Award for Best New Artist

The Grammy Award for Best New Artist has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals

The Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality pop songs on which singers collaborate.

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Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals

The Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals was awarded between 1966 and 2011 (the final year it was awarded, for recordings issued in 2010).

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Greatest Hits (Simply Red album)

Greatest Hits is the first compilation album released by British pop group Simply Red, which contained material from their first five studio albums (Picture Book, Men and Women, A New Flame, Stars and Life) and included a newer track, a cover of Aretha Franklin's 1973 classic, "Angel".

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Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American R&B/Soul vocal group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s.

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Heitor Pereira

Heitor Teixeira Pereira (born November 29, 1960), or Heitor TP, is a Brazilian composer, who played with Simply Red and several famous musicians, like Elton John, Rod Stewart, k.d. lang and Jack Johnson; and is currently working as a film music composer at Hans Zimmer's studio.

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Holding Back the Years

"Holding Back the Years" is the seventh track on Simply Red's debut studio album Picture Book (1985).

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Holland–Dozier–Holland

Holland–Dozier–Holland was a songwriting and production team made up of Lamont Dozier and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland.

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Home (Simply Red album)

Home is the eighth Simply Red studio album, released in 2003.

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Ian Kirkham

Ian Kirkham (born 9 March, 1963, Preston, England) is a saxophonist, best known as the saxophone player for Simply Red from 1986 until the band retired in 2010.

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If You Don't Know Me by Now

"If You Don't Know Me by Now" is a song written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, and recorded by the Philly soul musical group Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.

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Joy Division

Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester.

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Lamont Dozier

Lamont Herbert Dozier (DŌ-zhər; born June 16, 1941) is an American songwriter and record producer, born in Detroit, Michigan.

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Life (Simply Red album)

Life is the fifth studio album by British band Simply Red, released in 1995.

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List of artists who reached number one in the United States

This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazine's weekly pop singles chart(s).

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List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart

This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazine's Dance Club Songs chart.

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List of best-selling albums in the United Kingdom

The best-selling album in the United Kingdom is Greatest Hits, a compilation album by British band Queen that was first released in 1981.

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List of Billboard number-one dance club songs

This is a list of number-one dance hits as recorded by Billboard magazine's Dance Club Songs chart — a weekly national survey of popular songs in U.S. dance clubs.

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List of Billboard number-one singles

This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it.

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Love and the Russian Winter

Love and the Russian Winter is the seventh studio album by Simply Red, released on 2 November 1999.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

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Mark E. Smith

Mark Edward Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018) was an English singer and songwriter.

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Men and Women (album)

Men and Women is the second album by British pop group Simply Red, released in 1987.

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Mick Hucknall

Michael James Hucknall (born 8 June 1960) is an English singer and songwriter.

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Money's Too Tight (to Mention)

"Money's Too Tight (to Mention)" (sometimes stylized as "Money$ Too Tight (to Mention)" in some of its single and album releases) is a song written and first recorded by The Valentine Brothers, John Valentine and Billy Valentine, and released as a single in 1982.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist

The MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist have been given out since the first annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1984.

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Munich

Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

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Music Sales Group

Music Sales Group is a global music publisher, with headquarters in Berners Street, London.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Odense

Odense is the third-largest city in Denmark.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company, also referred to as Official Charts (previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.

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Olive (band)

Olive is a trip hop group from London, England.

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Picture Book (Simply Red album)

Picture Book is the debut album by British pop group Simply Red, released in October 1985.

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Pollstar

Pollstar is a trade publication for the concert industry.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Red

Red is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975.

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Simplified (album)

Simplified is a Simply Red album released in October 2005.

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Simply Red

Simply Red are a British soul and pop band which formed in 1983 in Manchester.

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Sly and Robbie

Sly and Robbie are a prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production duo, associated primarily with the reggae and dub genres.

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Something Got Me Started

"Something Got Me Started" is the first single released from British band Simply Red's 1991 album Stars.

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Sophisti-pop

Sophisti-pop is a subgenre of pop music.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Stars (Simply Red album)

Stars is the fourth album by British-based pop/soul/jazz band Simply Red, released in September 1991.

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Stars (Simply Red song)

"Stars" is a 1991 single by British soul and pop band Simply Red.

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Stay (Simply Red album)

Stay is the tenth studio album from British pop group Simply Red.

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Sunrise (Simply Red song)

"Sunrise" is a song by English musical group Simply Red.

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Sylvan Richardson

Sylvan Richardson is a British guitarist, composer and masseur.

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The Air That I Breathe

"The Air That I Breathe" is a ballad written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood, initially recorded by Albert Hammond on his 1972 album It Never Rains in Southern California.

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The Durutti Column

The Durutti Column are an English post-punk band formed in 1978 in Manchester, England.

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The Fall (band)

The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester.

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The Mothmen

The Mothmen were a short-lived post-punk band from England, formed around 1979 by Dave Rowbotham, Chris Joyce and Tony Bowers, shortly after they left The Durutti Column, including ex-Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias singer Bob Harding.

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The O2 Arena

The O2 Arena (temporarily the sponsor-neutral "North Greenwich Arena", during the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics) is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the centre of The O2 entertainment complex on the Greenwich Peninsula in south east London.

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The Right Thing

"The Right Thing" is a single released by British soul group Simply Red in 1987.

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The Smiths

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982.

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The Stylistics

The Stylistics are a Philadelphia soul group that achieved its greatest chart success in the 1970s.

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The Valentine Brothers

The Valentine Brothers were an American recording act in the late 1970s and 1980s, comprising brothers John and William "Billy" Valentine.

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Tim Kellett

Tim Kellett (born 23 July 1964 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Tony Bowers

Tony Bowers (born 31 October 1952, England) is a musician based in Italy and Ireland who has worked with many bands, including Simply Red in the 1980s.

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Tribute to Bobby

Tribute to Bobby is a 2008 album by Simply Red frontman Mick Hucknall and his first solo album.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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You Make Me Feel Brand New

"You Make Me Feel Brand New" is a 1974 single by the Philadelphia soul group The Stylistics.

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1986 MTV Video Music Awards

The 1986 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 5, 1986, honoring the best music videos from May 2, 1985, to May 1, 1986.

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1990 Brit Awards

The 1990 Brit Awards were the 10th edition of the biggest annual pop music awards in the United Kingdom.

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1997 Brit Awards

The 1997 Brit Awards were the 17th edition of the biggest annual pop music awards in the United Kingdom.

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29th Annual Grammy Awards

The 29th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 24, 1987, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California.

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32nd Annual Grammy Awards

The 32nd Annual Grammy Awards were held in 1990.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simply_Red

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