Mick Hucknall
Michael " Mick " Hucknall James ( born June 8, 1960 in Manchester ) is a British musician. He founded the British band Simply Red
Childhood and youth
Mick Hucknall was born in St Mary's Hospital in Manchester. His family lived briefly in Bredbury, and later in Denton, a working class neighborhood in the east of the city center of Manchester. Mick Hucknall attended the Grammar School in Audenshaw. At this time he became a staunch supporter of Manchester United.
Mick was by his father Reg, a professional hairdresser, educated, since his mother Maureen both left when Mick was three years old. At the Manchester Metropolitan University Hucknall initially studied art history. He earned his time as a DJ. This end of the 1970s matured his decision to become a musician.
Music
His first band, the New Wave / punk - oriented band Frantic Elevators, broke apart after a few failures in 1983, whereupon Hucknall of Simply Red in 1984 founded. The name of this band (literally just red ) refers to the hair color of the artist, the left-sided political inclination and love for Manchester United Football Club ( club color red).
" Holding Back the Years" was the first single in November 1985 from the album Picture Book, which became a number one hit.
The end of 2007, prior to a world tour, then the end of Simply Red was announced and already half a year later, the musicians brought under the name of Hucknall a solo album titled Tribute to Bobby out, for which he had re-recorded soul classics by Bobby Bland. The end of 2010 on a world tour with 78 concerts under the motto Farewell found again - The Final Show. Mick Hucknall is committed to the record companies and simplyred.com Blood and Fire.
Football
Mick Hucknall is a football fan. In the 1990s, he tried the club of his hometown, Manchester United to buy. Furthermore, he stood at the opening ceremony of the European Football Championship in 1996 at the old Wembley Stadium with the official EM anthem We're In This Together on stage.
Man Ray
Opened in 1998, Hucknall, along with Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, John Malkovich and the restaurateurs Thierry Kléméniuk in Paris, the restaurant-bar Man Ray (from 2008 Mandala Ray ). The Man Ray is an after surrealist artist - rounder Man Ray (1890-1976) named bar-restaurant in Paris, have published several of the same and there played music albums its owner. The restaurant is located in the former premises of the Gaumont, the first cinema on the Champs Elysees ( 34 Rue Marbeuf ).
In the rooms are similar in Buddha Bar, golden Buddhas, Chinese lanterns and antiques of the Occident. The game is played oriental world music, jazz, electro funk, soul and Lounge-/House-Songs. A compilation of these songs was on the compilation albums released man ray ( Vol I, II (2002), III (2003) ). More Man Ray exist in New York (1999 ), London (Chelsea ) (2001 ).
Policy
In 2003 it became Hucknall ambition to collect as Lord for the Labour Party in the British House of Lords. Tony Blair had raised since he took office in 1997, dozens of Labour sympathizers in the peerage and can reward you with a seat in the House of Lords. The sympathizers had underlined their interest with monetary donations. Who knows Tony Blair personally well Hucknall, had also donated, but was not appointed as Lord.
In 2003, he criticized the German and French position on the war in Iraq. Mick Hucknall support SOS Children's Villages.
Partners
Hucknall was associated with known women like Martine McCutcheon, Catherine Zeta -Jones, now wife of Michael Douglas, the former Danish model Helena Christensen, who was previously girlfriend of Leonardo DiCaprio and tennis legend Steffi Graf.
Hucknall and his girlfriend ( since 2003 together) Gabriella Wesberry are parents of a daughter.
Discography
- Tribute to Bobby (Album, 2008), DE # 37, AT # 39, CH # 39, UK # 18
- Poverty (download - Single, 2008)
- American Soul (Album, 2012), DE # 12, AT # 11, CH # 18, UK # 6