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"Holding Back the Years" is a song by the English #soul and pop band #SimplyRed, released as the third single from their debut studio album, #PictureBook (1985). In 1986, the #ballad reached number one on the US #Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the #UKSinglesChart. "Holding Back the Years" had initially been released in the UK the year before, reaching number 51.
youtube.com/watch?v=SR7zKA7tPS8

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"If you don't know me by now" - Simply Red

Mick Hucknell has another live vocal, something denied to Lisa Stansfield. Light grey suit looks odd on him, maybe it's the hair and the open neck that looks distracting.

By now, the backlash was in full swing - one critic wrote, "Vapid, stereotyped nonsense. Hucknall brazens rather than emotes his way through the vocal performance."

"Holding Back the Years" is a song by the English #soul and pop band #SimplyRed, released as the third single from their debut studio album, #PictureBook (1985). In 1986, the #ballad reached number one on the US #Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the #UKSinglesChart. "Holding Back the Years" had initially been released in the UK the year before, reaching number 51.
youtube.com/watch?v=l7GnVHmTiI8