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Life (Simply Red album)

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Released
  
24 October 1995

Life (1995)
  
Greatest Hits (1996)

Release date
  
24 October 1995

Length
  
47:18

Artist
  
Simply Red

Label
  
East West Records

Life (Simply Red album) wwwsimplyredcomstagewpcontentthemessimplyre

Genres
  
Pop music, Soul music, Rock music, Adult contemporary music

Producers
  
Mick Hucknall, Stewart Levine

Similar
  
Simply Red albums, Pop music albums

Life is the fifth studio album by British band Simply Red, released in 1995. The lead single "Fairground" became their first number 1 hit in the UK. Due to this success, the album also made #1 on the UK album chart. It also included "We're in This Together", the official theme song for Euro '96. This was also the last album to feature band member Fritz McIntyre.

Contents

Simply red life album sampler


Track listing

All songs composed by Mick Hucknall

  1. "You Make Me Believe" – 3:51
  2. "So Many People" – 5:19
  3. "Lives and Loves" – 3:21
  4. "Fairground" – 5:33
  5. "Never Never Love" – 4:19
  6. "So Beautiful" – 4:58
  7. "Hillside Avenue" – 4:45
  8. "Remembering the First Time" – 4:43
  9. "Out on the Range" – 6:00
  10. "We're in This Together" – 4:14

2008 Special Edition bonus tracks

  1. "Fairground" (Rollo and Sister Bliss Remix) - 9:06
  2. "Remembering the First Time" (Satoshi Tomie Classic 12" Mix) - 8:53
  3. "Never Never Love" (Too Precious Club Radio Mix) - 4:22
  4. "We're in This Together" (Universal Feeling Mix) - 4:15
  5. "You Make Me Believe" (Howie B Mix) - 4:01

Personnel

  • Mick Hucknall - lead vocals, background vocals, guitar, bass guitar & string arrangement
  • Fritz McIntyre - keyboards & background vocals
  • Ian Kirkham - saxophone, EWI & keyboards
  • Heitor T P - guitars
  • Dee Johnson - background vocals

    • Guest musicians

  • Sly Dunbar - drums and programming
  • Robbie Shakespeare - bass guitar
  • Bootsy Collins - bass guitar
  • Ritchie Stevens - drums
  • Danny Cummings - percussion
  • Hugh Masekela - flugelhorn
  • Andy Wright - programming, keyboards and string arrangement
  • Umoja Singers Chorale
  • The London Metropolitan Orchestra
  • Caroline Dale - string arrangement and conduction

    • The video for "Never Never Love" featured several women, including British actresses Billie Whitelaw and Stephanie Beacham, and fashion models like Kirsten Owen, for example.

    Songs

    1You Make Me Believe3:54
    2So Many People5:21
    3Lives and Loves3:22

    References

    Life (Simply Red album) Wikipedia
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