Mick hucknall where is he now

I want to support James Brown. I want to perform at Old Trafford cricket ground. And I want to have a No. Appearing as a scruffy street urchin in the music video , with his curly red hair under a flat cap, Mick Hucknall made an immediate splash as a pop star, melding left-leaning lyrics with soul-boy posturing. A heartfelt ballad reflecting on the absence of his mother, it took some time for the single to find success; after being reissued in , however, it shot up the charts, peaking at No.

Today, it remains an undisputed sophisti-pop classic among the best Simply Red songs. Simply Red… right? Hey man, I love that album… keep at it.

Now regarded as a sex symbol, he wooed women left, right and centre on tour, channelling his amorous appetites into his new music. Released the following year, the third Simply Red album, A New Flame , found the band scaling greater heights, selling two million copies and scoring the group their second US No.

By this point, Mick Hucknall had become a multi-millionaire and was easily one of the most commercially successful singers in the world. I am trying to be that. He first found his love for music when attending the Lesser Free Trade Hall show in Manchester in June where the Sex Pistols were playing their first gig.

He was born in Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester, and is an only child. His mother abandoned the family when he was aged just three, which later inspired him to write 'Holding Back the Years'. He was brought up in Denton by his father Reginald — , a barber in Stockport. It wasn't until the mids that he reconnected with his mother Maureen, who was by then living in Dallas.

You get pressure from the record company to release an album every two years, you have to go on tour and I knew that wouldn't stop, so I said to my manager, 'I don't want to do this any more'. According to the latest figures from the office of National Statistics, more than , men opted out of the workplace in - that is the lowest number since To stamp home the point, Hucknall reveals his band have just recorded what will be their 12th studio album, which he says will be a departure from the "smoother sounds" of previous releases.

Once a mainstay of the heady 90s' London party circuit, Hucknall credits his new-found domestic bliss with a new burst of creativity. I get great creative pleasure from my work. A songwriter he may be but writing his own memoirs apparently holds no interest for the singer whose colourful love life was once the talk of the tabloids. My biggest thrills were encounters with great people, being complimented by George Harrison and Miles Davis.

I don't care about celebrity but give me a moment like that. But the Sunrise hitmaker said he hated taking drugs and instead prefers alcohol - although he now limits himself to half a bottle of wine a day. He told Rob McGibbon in an interview for The Sunday Times magazine that 'like every other musician' he had 'tried everything' and had sampled heroin when living with an addict.

Smoked it. I felt woozy and threw up. It wasn't for me,' he said. And speaking of cocaine, he said: 'I have been around it all my working life, but it was not my thing.

Cocaine, to me, is one of the most pointless drugs of all time. It just makes you feel like wood,' he added. The singer went on to say that he is now only a 'moderate drinker' and for two nights of the week is a vegetarian and drinks nothing at all. It comes after the singer denied sleeping with 3, women and instead claimed that he had been taken 'wildly out of context'. The Fairground singer, who now lives in Surrey and has been married for over a decade, admitted that he had 'no idea' how many women he slept with.

He had told The Guardian : 'When I had the fame, it went crazy. Between , I would sleep with about three women a day, every day. I never said no. I was living the dream and my only regret is that I hurt some really good girls. But he then told The Sunday Times that the figure was not a literal number, adding that his past confessions were 'conflated'. Out and about: It comes after the singer denied sleeping with 3, women and instead claimed that he had been taken 'wildly out of context'.

When asked what the real number was he said: 'I have no idea. I don't put chips on the bedposts. I haven't a clue and have never thought about calculating. However, the singer, did admit to living a playboy lifestyle when his career was at its peak, which involved 'a lot of' alcohol and drugs.