Mick Hucknall
Michael "Mick" James Hucknall (born June 8, 1960 in Manchester ) is a British musician and founder of the British band Simply Red .
Childhood and youth
Mick Hucknall was born in Manchester. His family lived in Bredbury for a short time and then later in Denton , a working-class neighborhood to the east of Manchester city center. Mick Hucknall attended the Grammar School in Audenshaw there. At that time, he became a loyal fan of the Manchester United football team .
Mick was raised by his father Reg, a hairdresser by profession , as his mother Maureen left both of them when Mick was three years old. Hucknall first studied art history at the Manchester Metropolitan University . Back then he earned his living as a DJ . At the end of the 1970s, he decided to become a musician.
music
His first band, the new wave / punk-oriented band Frantic Elevators , broke up in 1983 after a few failures, whereupon Hucknall founded Simply Red in 1984. The name of this band (literally simply red ) refers to the artist's hair color , political orientation (he supports the British Labor Party ) and his love for Manchester United football club (club color red).
" Holding Back the Years " was the first single release in November 1985 from the album Picture Book, which became a number one hit.
At the end of 2007, before a world tour, the end of Simply Red was announced and just six months later the musician released a solo album called Hucknall entitled Tribute to Bobby , for which he had re-recorded soul classics by Bobby Bland . At the end of 2010 another world tour with 78 concerts took place under the motto Farewell - The Final Show . Mick Hucknall is involved with the record companies simplyred.com and Blood and Fire .
In the years 2009 to 2012 Hucknall appeared at several festivals as the singer of the re-established Faces .
Soccer
Mick Hucknall is a football fan. In the 1990s, he tried to buy his hometown club, Manchester United . He was also on stage at the opening ceremony of the European Football Championship in 1996 in the old Wembley Stadium in London with the official EM anthem We're In This Together . On June 29, 1996 Simply Red gave a Euro 96 concert at Old Trafford, Manchester United Stadium.
Man Ray
In 1998, together with Johnny Depp , Sean Penn , John Malkovich and restaurateur Thierry Kléméniuk, Hucknall opened Man Ray ( Mandala Ray from 2008 ) in Paris , a bar-restaurant named after the surrealist artist all-rounder Man Ray (1890-1976) , whose owners have published several music albums of the same name and played there. The restaurant is located in the former rooms of the Gaumont , the first cinema on the Champs-Élysées (34 Rue Marbeuf). In the rooms, similar to Buddha bars , there are golden Buddhas , Chinese lanterns and antiques from the Occident . Oriental world music , jazz , electro funk , soul and lounge / house songs are played. A compilation of such songs was published on the compilation albums man ray (Vol. I, II (2002), III (2003)). Further Man Ray exist in New York (1999), London ( Chelsea ) (2001).
Awards
In 2014 Mick Hucknall received the Eckart Witzigmann Prize for Lifestyle.
politics
In 2003 Hucknall showed ambitions to move into the British House of Lords as Lord for the Labor Party . Tony Blair had raised dozens of Labor sympathizers to the nobility since taking office in 1997 and had them rewarded with a seat in the House of Lords. The sympathizers had underlined their interest by donating money. Hucknall, who knows Tony Blair well personally, had also donated but was not made lord.
In 2003 he criticized the German and French attitude towards the war in Iraq. Mick Hucknall supports SOS Children's Villages .
Private life
Hucknall was in a relationship with Martine McCutcheon , Catherine Zeta-Jones and Helena Christensen .
Hucknall and Gabriella Wesberry were parents to a daughter in 2007. In 2010 they got married.
Discography
Solo albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2008 | Tribute to Bobby |
DE37 (3 weeks) DE |
AT39 (5 weeks) AT |
CH39 (5 weeks) CH |
UK18 (3 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: May 19, 2008
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| 2012 | American soul |
DE12 (7 weeks) DE |
AT11 (4 weeks) AT |
CH18 (3 weeks) CH |
UK6th  (15 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: October 29, 2012
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Simply Red
Web links
- simplyred.com - the official homepage
- Guardian Article (March 21, 2003)
- Interview with Mick Hucknall (USA 2003, engl.)
- soultracks.com
swell
- ↑ Peter Willis: Mirror ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (from February 18, 2008)
- ↑ Hucknall announces separation: Simply Red? Simply Dead! , Spiegel on October 25, 2007 (Aus. Gone. After almost a quarter of a century on the world's stages, the British pop group Simply Red announced their breakup. Singer Mick Hucknall prefers to continue solo.)
- ↑ BBC NEWS; October 24, 2007
- ↑ Frizz Lauterbach: Football cult, Mick Hucknall from Simply Red; Bayerischer Rundfunk ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Simply red manchester 96 . In: youtube , June 29, 1996.
- ↑ INFOS COMPACT: "man ray, Vol. II" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Milan 74321 95567-2, published October 14, 2002
- ↑ PRIZE WINNER 2014 - International Eckart Witzigmann Prize. Retrieved December 15, 2017 (German).
- ^ Swiss publication news of April 3, 2003; Simply Red singer wants to become lord
- ^ Spiegel-ONLINE (from March 26, 2003)
- ↑ UK homepage of SOS Children's Villages
- ↑ LAURA ROBERTS: Daily Mail ; 2007
- ↑ dotspotter.com ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ dailymail.co.uk: Simply wed: Mick Hucknall marries in exclusive Scottish ceremony
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hucknall, Mick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hucknall, Michael James (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British musician, founder of the band Simply Red |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester |