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"'''Holding Back the Years'''" is the 7th track of [[Simply Red]]'s debut [[studio album]] ''[[Picture Book (album)|Picture Book]]''. The song was a smash success for the group and quickly rose to the top of charts across the world. It remains their most successful single. The single is one of two Simply Red songs (the other being their cover of "[[If You Don't Know Me by Now]]") to reach number one on the [[Billboard Hot 100]], for the week ending July 12, 1986. |
"'''Holding Back the Years'''" is the 7th track of [[Simply Red]]'s debut [[studio album]] ''[[Picture Book (album)|Picture Book]]''. The song was a smash success for the group and quickly rose to the top of charts across the world. It remains their most successful single. The single is one of two Simply Red songs (the other being their cover of "[[If You Don't Know Me by Now]]") to reach number one on the [[Billboard Hot 100]], for the week ending July 12, 1986. |
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It also reached #2 in the [[UK]] and was a worldwide hit. |
It also reached #2 in the [[UK]] and was a worldwide hit. It had initially been released in the UK the year before, but for some reason did poorly (#51). |
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==Background== |
==Background== |
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"Holding Back the Years" is the 7th track of Simply Red's debut studio album Picture Book. The song was a smash success for the group and quickly rose to the top of charts across the world. It remains their most successful single. The single is one of two Simply Red songs (the other being their cover of "If You Don't Know Me by Now") to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100, for the week ending July 12, 1986. It also reached #2 in the UK and was a worldwide hit. It had initially been released in the UK the year before, but for some reason did poorly (#51).
Background
Frontman of the group, Mick Hucknall, wrote the song when he was seventeen, while living at his father's house. The chorus did not come to him until many years later. [1]His mother left him when he was three; the upheaval caused by this event inspired him to write the song.[2]
He recorded a version of the song with his first group "The Frantic Elevators" in 1982 but the real success came when the Simply Red version was released in 1985. In 2005, a brand-new stripped down acoustic version of the song was released on the album Simplified, and this version received heavy airplay on smooth jazz radio stations.
Music video
The video for this song was filmed in the English coastal town of Whitby and the famous scene where Hucknall watches the coastal view from his window can be seen on the cover of the single, in its music video and, for a brief time, in the music video of "If You Don't Know Me by Now". The other band members play the role of the local cricket team who see Hucknall off on his journey.
Eastenders & Shameless actress Maggie O'Neill made her acting debut as the schoolteacher in the video.
Cover versions
The song was covered by Another Level in 1999. It was also covered by Umphrey's McGee on their New Years Run on 29 December 2007. It has also been covered by singer-songwriter Angie Stone.
In popular culture
- "Holding Back the Years" was used as the soundtrack to a party political broadcast for the Labour Party in the 2005 general election campaign.
- The song appeared in the film Love & Basketball.
- The song was sampled by rap group Brand Nubian for their single "Hold On".
References
- ^ "Simply Red's 2D Album Blends Funk with Ballads". The New York Times. 11 March 1987. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
- ^ "Simply Red star cleared after arrest for rape". The Daily Telegraph. 19 June, 2001. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
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