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In the mid-’80s, James singer Tim Booth was often in comparison to Morrissey from the Smiths. As the folksy electric guitar pop from the Smiths and Adam exhibited commonalities, Booth didn’t wallow in Morrissey’s anguished observations about lifestyle and like. Booth formed Adam in 1982 with Paul Gilbertson (electric guitar), …

United kingdom vocalist Mick Hucknall got his begin in punk music — a long way off from the soft mixture of pop and blue-eyed soul that could later on catapult his music group, Simply Red, in to the worldwide mainstream. Created in Manchester, Britain, in 1960, Hucknall experienced a musical …