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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 …

Led with the vocalist Mick Hucknall, the English blue-eyed soul group Simply Red became international stars making use of their debut album, Picture Book. In the strike ballad “Keeping Back again the Years,” Hucknall demonstrated that he could sing soulfully without affectation, while their cover from the Valentine Brothers’ “Money’s …