Stars (Simply Red album)

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Stars
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Studio album by
Simply Red
Released30 September 1991 (1991-09-30)
RecordedAugust 1990–June 1991
StudioCondulmer Studio, Venice, Italy
Genre Pop, blue-eyed soul
Length41:17
Label EastWest Records
Producer Stewart Levine
Simply Red chronology
A New Flame
(1989)		Stars
(1991)		 The Montreux EP
(1992)
Singles from Stars
  1. "Something Got Me Started"
    Released: 9 September 1991
  2. "Stars"
    Released: 18 November 1991
  3. "For Your Babies"
    Released: 27 January 1992
  4. "Thrill Me"
    Released: 21 April 1992
  5. "Your Mirror"
    Released: 13 July 1992

Stars is the fourth album by British-based pop/soul/jazz band Simply Red, released on 30 September 1991. [1] Five singles were released from the album, including the UK top ten hits "Stars" and "For Your Babies". The album was a worldwide success, particularly in the band's home country where it has been certified twelve times platinum [2] and was the best-selling album of the year in the UK for both 1991 and 1992, [3] [4] the first album to be the best-seller in two consecutive years since Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge over Troubled Water in 1970–1971. As of April 2019 it is the 14th best-selling album of all time in the UK. [5]

Contents

The album was on the shortlist of nominees for the 1992 Mercury Prize. In 2000 Q placed Stars at number 80 in its list of "The 100 Greatest British Albums Ever". [6]

In 2000 it was voted number 258 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums . [7]

Composition and recording

Recording for the album originally began in Paris in August 1990, but the initial sessions did not go well: the equipment in the studio did not live up to expectations, and with the Gulf War having just started and dominating television news reports, the band found the atmosphere in the bunker-like studios oppressive and not conducive to making music. The group moved to the more relaxed surroundings of Venice to resume recording in the Condulmer Studios. [8]

Simply Red's leader and singer Mick Hucknall had wanted the album to have a less electronic and more soulful sound than their previous work, and had recruited programmer Gota after hearing his work with Soul II Soul. Hucknall did not realise that Gota was also a drummer until he heard him jamming on the drum kit one evening in Venice, after which Gota also became the band's full-time drummer. The songs had been written over the previous year: "Something Got Me Started" and "Stars" had been written on the road during the group's previous tour. "Thrill Me" was based on a riff that McIntyre had come up with, while Hucknall described "Wonderland" as "probably the most political song I've written", documenting his dissatisfaction with the British Conservative government of the time. [9]

Artwork

The album cover features a photograph of singer Hucknall in the Californian desert, wearing a Native American painted cloak that he had bought in Spain. Hucknall had insisted that in the shot he would be wearing the cloak and nothing else, displaying his bare legs. However, when photographer Zanna showed the photographs to EastWest Records, they were concerned that Hucknall's bare legs would offend sensibilities in the US, and Zanna had to digitally retouch the picture using a test photograph of her assistant's jeans-covered legs. [10]

Release

Stars was released on 30 September 1991 and debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling around 150,000 copies in its first week. [11] After 12 months, the album had sold 2.4 million copies in the UK. [12]

Stars was re-issued in 2008 as a Collector's Edition 2CD with bonus DVD digipack.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [13]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [15]
NME 4/10 [16]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [17]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [18]
Select 2/5 [19]
Smash Hits 7/10 [20]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [21]
Vox 9/10 [22]

The album received mixed reviews in the UK. The alternative music magazines were cool towards the record: in the NME Andrew Collins dismissed Stars as "an exercise in no-style over no-content" and "the sound of some technicians desperately fanning some smouldering ashes for people with central heating", [16] while in Select Graham Linehan disregarded the bulk of the album as "just Simply Red – uniquely anonymous and as flat as Iowa." [19] Caroline Sullivan simply stated in Melody Maker that "within his strictly-defined oeuvre – sleek, airbrushed music best described as soulette – [Hucknall]'s miles ahead of his competition ... Nor, on an objective level, can Stars be faulted ... This is a pleasant album, the sleeve is pretty, and now, at least, you've got a Christmas present for Gran." [23]

However, reviews from newspaper critics and other magazines were more positive. In The Guardian Adam Sweeting wrote that "the new songs sound relaxed, refreshed, and satisfyingly cohesive ... Easy to listen to but not easy listening, Stars keeps shining", [24] while The Independent 's Andy Gill was similarly impressed, observing that "Hucknall's socialist soul-boy's conviction and his determination to write songs with stings in their tails place Simply Red several notches above the rest of the smooth soul genre ... And in simple evocations of love like 'Thrill Me' and 'For Your Babies', the spark of honesty sets them above the superficial, insincere protestations of love that dominate modern soul music." [25] In Q Ian Cranna hailed the album as "a long overdue change in musical direction, with Hucknall for the most part abandoning his undoubtedly sincere but inevitably fruitless attempts to re-create himself as a soul singer. Instead he's eased Simply Red down a couple of gears into a more relaxed and flowing style which owes as much towards current hip hop-inspired club rhythms as it does to old-style soul or funk." He ended his review by describing Stars as "Simply Red's most accessible and danceable work to date". [17] In the American press, the Chicago Tribune 's Jan DeKnock said that Simply Red had moved "into a funkier groove that suits them well" on Stars, [14] while Entertainment Weekly 's Dave DiMartino found that Hucknall's songwriting skills distinguished him from other "merely interpretive" singers; [15] a year after its release, Mark Coleman praised Stars in The Rolling Stone Album Guide as "a stripped-down set of originals, superbly sung without a trace of rootsy nostalgia or gross crossover ambition." [18]

In his retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine called Stars "Simply Red's best album since their debut. It's smoother and more polished than their previous work, yet Mick Hucknall is singing better than ever and his songwriting is improving ... Having absorbed his pop, soul, and reggae influences, Hucknall is now successfully writing songs in his own style, something that, with the exception of 'Holding Back the Years', he hadn't managed previously." [13]

The album was voted the second-worst record ever made in a 1998 Melody Maker poll of pop stars, DJs, and journalists. [26]

Track listing

Original release

All songs written and composed by Mick Hucknall, except where noted.

  1. "Something Got Me Started" (Hucknall, Fritz McIntyre) – 4:01
  2. "Stars" – 4:08
  3. "Thrill Me" (Hucknall, McIntyre) – 5:04
  4. "Your Mirror" – 3:59
  5. "She's Got It Bad" – 3:33
  6. "For Your Babies" – 4:17
  7. "Model" – 3:46
  8. "How Could I Fall" – 4:45
  9. "Freedom" – 3:52
  10. "Wonderland" – 3:49

2008 Collector's Edition bonus tracks

Personnel

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for Stars
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [60] 2× Platinum140,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria) [61] 2× Platinum100,000*
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [62] Platinum250,000*
Canada (Music Canada) [63] Gold50,000^
Finland (Musiikkituottajat) [64] Gold34,401 [64]
France (SNEP) [65] 2× Platinum600,000*
Germany (BVMI) [66] 5× Gold1,250,000^
Italy—500,000 [67]
Japan—50,000 [68]
Netherlands (NVPI) [69] 2× Platinum200,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [70] Platinum15,000^
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [71] Platinum100,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [72] 2× Platinum100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [2] 12× Platinum3,450,000 [73]
United States (RIAA) [74] Gold579,000 [75]
Summaries
Scandinavia—150,000 [68]
Worldwide—9,000,000 [75]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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