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A New Flame

 
Album Review: A New Flame

  • Artist: Simply Red
  • Rating: StarStarStarStar
  • Release Date: 1989
  • Total Time: 40:43
  • Type: Lyrics are included with the album
  • Genre: Rock

Review

Although Hucknall tries to resurrect soul in his own original songs, he's most successful at evoking the past, notably on Simply Red's second number one, a remake of the Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes classic "If You Don't Know Me by Now." ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
It's Only Love (Lyrics) Vella Cameron Simply Red (4:57)
A New Flame Mick Hucknall Simply Red (3:56)
You've Got It (Lyrics) Lamont Dozier, Mick Hucknall Simply Red (3:54)
To Be With You (Lyrics) Mick Hucknall Simply Red (3:22)
More (Lyrics) Mick Hucknall Simply Red (4:08)
Turn It Up (Lyrics) Mick Hucknall, Lamont Dozier Simply Red (4:34)
Love Lays Its Tune (Lyrics) Mick Hucknall Simply Red (4:05)
She'll Have to Go (Lyrics) Mick Hucknall Simply Red (3:14)
If You Don't Know Me by Now Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff Simply Red (3:24)
Enough (Lyrics) Joe Sample, Mick Hucknall Simply Red (5:09)

Credits

Heitor T.P. (Guitar), Tim Kellett (Trumpet), Stewart Levine (Producer), Tim Kellett (Keyboards), Fritz McIntyre (Vocals (Background)), Ian Kirkham (Saxophone), Fritz McIntyre (Keyboards), Tony Bowers (Bass), Chris Joyce (Drums), Mick Hucknall (Vocals)
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A New Flame
Studio album by Simply Red
Released 1989
Recorded 1988-89
Genre Pop
Length 41:03
Label WEA Records
Elektra Records
Producer Stewart Levine
Professional reviews
Simply Red chronology
Men and Women
(1987)
A New Flame
(1989)
Stars
(1991)
Singles from A New Flame
  1. "It’s Only Love"
    Released: January 1989
  2. "If You Don’t Know Me By Now"
    Released: April 1989
  3. "A New Flame"
    Released: July 1989
  4. "You’ve Got It"
    Released: October 1989

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

Track listing

Side one
  1. "It’s Only Love” (Jimmy Cameron/Vella Cameron)- 4:58
  2. "A New Flame" (Mick Hucknall) - 3:57
  3. "You’ve Got It" (Hucknall/Lamont Dozier) - 3:55
  4. "To Be With You" (Hucknall) - 3:22
  5. "More" (Hucknall) - 4:08
Side two
  1. "Turn It Up” (Hucknall/Dozier)- 4:35
  2. "Love Lays Its Tune" (Hucknall) - 4:05
  3. "She’ll Have To Go" (Hucknall) - 3:14
  4. "If You Don’t Know Me By Now" (Kenny Gamble/Leon Huff) - 3:24
  5. "Enough" (Hucknall/Joe Sample) - 5:10
2008 Collector’s Edition bonus tracks
Disc one
  1. I Wish [Live Version] (Stevie Wonder) - 4:05
  2. X (Fritz McIntyre/Ian Kirkham/Tim Kellett/Chris Joyce/Tony Bowers) - 4:51
  3. The Great Divide (S.H.T.G.) [“She’ll Have To Go” Extended Version] (Hucknall) - 3:56
  4. Sugar Daddy (McIntyre/Kirkham/Kellett/Joyce/Bowers) - 3:40
  5. Funk On Out [Instrumental] (Hucknall)- 3:31
Disc two (DVD)
’Let Me Take You Home’
Live at Manchester 1990
  1. Grandma’s Hands (Bill Withers)
  2. More (Hucknall)
  3. Groovy Situation (Keith Barrington Rowe)
  4. Lady Godiva’s Room (Hucknall)
  5. Holding Back The Years (Hucknall/Neil Moss)
  6. Sad Old Red (Hucknall)
  7. Enough (Hucknall/Sample)
  8. Turn It Up (Hucknall/Dozier)


Personnel

Guest musicians

  • Erik Hanson and Larry Williams - Synthesiser Programming
  • Lennie Castro - Percussion
  • Stephanie Spruell - Backing Vocals (except Enough)
Preceded by
The Raw and the Cooked
by Fine Young Cannibals
When the World Knows Your Name by Deacon Blue
Club Classics Vol. I by Soul II Soul
UK number one album
February 25, 1989 – March 24, 1989
April 29, 1989 – May 5, 1989
July 22, 1989 – August 4, 1989
Succeeded by
Anything for You
by Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
Blast! by Holly Johnson
Cuts Both Ways by Gloria Estefan



 
 

 

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