Simply Red – Holding Back The Years
Holding Back The Years, from Picture Book (1985): UK climb then Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 in 1986.
Simply Red – Manchester soul that filled the charts
Mick Hucknall left Manchester post-punk for a soul project built around his voice and Stewart Levine's production, took "Holding Back the Years" to number one in the United States, and kept Simply Red in arenas for two decades.