Simply Red – review

o2 Arena, LondonYou could never accuse Mick Hucknall of not springing surprises: after years of apparently revelling in his ghastly public image, he calls time on Simply Red and gives an interview to the Guardian in which he suddenly emerges as a funny, likable figure. Listening to him play the big hits, there was evidence that personal antipathy towards Hucknall may have clouded people's judgment of his music. There was stuff that's as unctuous and awful as the critical brickbats suggest – ru...

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