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Simply Red Celebrate 40th Anniversary

Few bands have enjoyed the success and longevity of Simply Red. With over 60 million albums sold worldwide, five UK #1 albums, 1.8 billion streams across streaming platforms worldwide, and over 1 million YouTube subscribers, Simply Red remain one of the UK’s most successful and well-loved bands. Their 1991 classic ‘Stars’ was the best-selling album for two years running in Britain and Europe, and all 13 of Simply Red’s studio albums, including their latest release ‘Time’, have been UK Top 10’s.

Mick Hucknall formed Simply Red in 1985 working-class Manchester, and enjoyed early success with first single ‘Money’s Too Tight To Mention’ and the Brit Award-nominated album ‘Picture Book’ (the first of 13 nominations, and 3 Brit Award wins). This was followed by a decade of superstardom and global hits. Today Simply Red continue to sell out tours across the globe. Their live show is renowned for its exceptional quality, with Mick Hucknall long-established as one of the great vocalists of contemporary music.

To celebrate this impressive 40-year milestone, Simply Red head back out on the road in 2025, telling the musical story of Simply Red so far – from ‘Picture Book’ to ‘Time’, and everything in between.

Setlists

    1. 1.Sad Old Red
    2. 2.Jericho
    3. 3.Money's Too Tight (To Mention) (The Valentine Brothers cover)
    4. 4.The Right Thing
    5. 5.A New Flame
    6. 6.It's Only Love Doing Its Thing (Barry White cover)
    7. 7.You've Got It
    8. 8.Enough
    9. 9.If You Don't Know Me by Now (Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes cover)
    10. 10.For Your Babies
    11. 11.Stars
    12. 12.Thrill Me
    13. 13.So Beautiful
    14. 14.Never Never Love
    15. 15.Say You Love Me
    16. 16.The Air That I Breathe (Albert Hammond cover)
    17. 17.You Make Me Feel Brand New (The Stylistics cover)
    18. 18.Fake
    19. 19.Sunrise
    20. 20.Fairground
  1. Encore

    1. 21.Something Got Me Started
    2. 22.Holding Back the Years (The Frantic Elevators cover)
    1. 1.Better With You
    2. 2.Stars
    3. 3.Sunrise
    4. 4.Just Like You
    5. 5.Your Mirror
    6. 6.Something Got Me Started (preceded by band introductions)
    7. 7.Fairground
    8. 8.Nutbush City Limits (Ike & Tina Turner cover)
    1. 1.You've Got It
    2. 2.So Not Over You
    3. 3.Say You Love Me
    4. 4.You Make Me Feel Brand New (The Stylistics cover)
    5. 5.For Your Babies (Followed by band introductions)
    6. 6.Holding Back the Years (The Frantic Elevators cover)
    7. 7.Thrill Me
    8. 8.A New Flame
    9. 9.Your Mirror
    10. 10.It's Only Love Doing Its Thing (Barry White cover) (Dedicated to Barry White. Mick also joked imitating Barry’s voice before the song.)
    11. 11.Come to My Aid
    12. 12.Ain't That a Lot of Love (Homer Banks cover)
    13. 13.Stars
    14. 14.Sunrise
    15. 15.Something Got Me Started
    16. 16.Fairground (With extended outro)
  1. Encore

    1. 17.Better With You (New song)
    2. 18.Money's Too Tight (To Mention) (The Valentine Brothers cover)
    3. 19.If You Don't Know Me by Now (Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes cover)

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Simply Red have announced shows in The SSE Arena, Belfast on 23 September and 3Arena, Dublin on 24 September 2025.

Tickets for Simply Red’s 2025 tour dates go on sale from 10am on Thursday 21 September 2023.