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1989

Simply RedA New Flame

A New Flame, Simply Red’s third studio album, was released in February 1989 and immediately took the band to new levels of fame and success. With A New Flame, Simply Red achieved their first UK Number 1 album, which went seven times Platinum with 2,100,000 copies sold in the UK alone.

1989

Tracklist

1. It’s Only Love SINGLE

It’s only love
It’s only love

Don’t be afraid to touch me babe
Girl let’s be real
There’s nothing wrong
With the way we’re carrying on
So enjoy and live
Because
It’s only love doing it’s thing baby
It’s only love that you’re feeling
It’s only love doing it’s thing baby
It’s only love that you’re giving

I wanna stay with you night and day
Until the end of time
It’s OK when you lay
Lay your body next to mine
Because
It’s only love doing it’s thing baby
It’s only love that you’re feeling
It’s only love doing it’s thing baby
It’s only love that you’re giving

Words and music Jimmy & Vella Cameron
Mayplace Music

2. A New Flame SINGLE

I was bowled out
I was sold down the river
And her warm heart
Would turn me forever

She’s turned me round
A new flame has come
And nothing she can do
Can do me wrong

I am stern now
Petty words
Don’t believe me
But her warm smile
Is never gonna leave me

She’s turned me round
A new flame has come
And nothing she can do
Can do me wrong

Wrong oh no
Wrong oh no

She’s made of real glass
She got real real emotion
But my heart laughs
I have that same
Sweet devotion

She’s turned me round
A new flame has come
And nothing she can do
Can do me wrong

Wrong oh no
Wrong oh no
Nothing she can do
Can ever do me wrong

Words and music Mick Hucknall
So What Ltd/SBK Songs Ltd

3. You’ve Got It SINGLE

This impossible power
A strength that I can’t see
There’s no way
That I can let you go
Why did I mistake sex
For another sense
Then wanted someone else
To try to tell you no

I think you understand
Oh that you’ve got it
I try hard but I can’t
Oh do without it

I think you understand
That you’ve got it

This impossible power
Has broken into me
And stolen all the sense
That I had before
Why did I just take
And never understand
The love you’ve given me
Could’ve learnt me more

I think you understand
Oh that you’ve got it
I try hard but I can’t
Oh do without it

I think you understand
That you’ve got it

What made you think
That I’d be true to you
I needed to
Prove it to myself
That I could let you go
What made you think that
I’d be a fool for you
You knew that I was lying
There was something
I was hiding

I think you understand
Oh that you’ve got it
Well I try hard but I can’t
Oh do without it

Words Mick Hucknall
Music Mick Hucknall & Lamont Dozier
So What Ltd/SBK Songs Ltd/Warner Chappell Music Ltd

4. To Be With You

I can’t pronounce it
Don’t even understand
The words I mean
My tongues tied
Up around it
My brain is so tired
But my heart is so warm

I wanna be with you
To talk with you
To sleep with you
Most of all
To make love to you

Last night I dreamed about it
The rooms in these hotels
Are the same around the world
I could really do without it
I’ll only hate myself
If I take another girl

I wanna be with you
I wanna talk with you
I wanna sleep with you
Most of all
To make love to you

Oh if I ever get home again
If you could ever
Do the same thing too
I could open up my soul again
I have to get this message to you

I wanna be with you
I wanna talk with you
I wanna sleep with you
I wanna make love to you
Love to you
You’ve got that feeling inside
And you know
My joy just can’t hide

Words and music Mick Hucknall
So What Ltd/SBK Songs Ltd

5. More

You’ve had your flings
I’ve had mine
You’ve grown your wings
I’ve flown mine

The only way out is to
Give you more love
More of my love

Not a girl of my dreams
But two hearts and two minds
The strain that brings
Is ours until the end of time

The only way out is to
Give you more love
More of my love

Words and music Mick Hucknall
So What Ltd/SBK Songs Ltd

6. Turn it Up

Turn it up, turn it so loud
It don’t ever stop
No no no no
Turn it up, makes me so proud
I believe in this feeling

Well you’ve lost all the things
That sharing could bring
Thought you were doing right
But violence and flames
And torches and chains
Are fuelling
These new northern lights
Like prisoners working
On infertile land
Took eight years
To find out the score
If you’re sick then you’re lonely
Out of work then you’re hungry
The sentence is four years more

Turn it up, turn it so loud
It don’t ever stop
No no no no
Turn it up, makes me so proud
I believe in this feeling
Turn it up, turn it up
Right up, right up

Who says poverty and race
Can be kept in their place
By keeping it
All underground
And ruling the country
Are unfaithful husbands
Who spank little boys
Gagged and bound
There’s got to be a better way
For you and for me
To turn this hypocrisy round
The growth of a nation
Cannot be achieved
By keeping
The downtrodden down

Turn it up, turn it so loud
It don’t ever stop
No no no no
Turn it up, makes me so proud
I believe in this feeling
Turn it up, turn it up
Right up, right up

Words Mick Hucknall
Music Mick Hucknall & Lamont Dozier
So What Ltd/SBK Songs Ltd/Warner Chappell Music Ltd

7. Love Lays Its Tune

Last night I made love for the first time
She gave me her soul, I surely gave her mine
We lay there just crying with both joy and gloom
The joy of what we had and the pain left
Where love lays it’s tune

Love tears you down
Oh turns you round

My heart bears the scars of emotional wounds
I’m scared so it’s hard to give myself to you
Hurt builds a wall round our hearts it’s true
The brave learn to live with the good and bad
Where love lays it’s tune

Love tears you down
Oh turns you round

Oh I swear I’d do anything for you little girl
Nothing stupid or wrong but something
That’ll make me true little girl

Love tears you down
Oh turns you round

Words and music Mick Hucknall
So What Ltd/SBK Songs Ltd

8. She’ll Have To Go

Your chances are running out
I can see possibilities clearly
The poor man who put those
Rumours about
Obviously didn’t really hear me

Breaking our backs with slurs
And taking our tax for murdering
The only thing I know
She’ll have to go

Your grass may be greener man
I was born on the pavement
I’m standing in
It’s blue grass honey
It’s a working man
It’s more than all the things
That you’re demanding

Breaking our backs with slurs
And taking our tax for murdering
The only thing I know
She’ll have to go

Words and music Mick Hucknall
So What Ltd/SBK Songs Ltd

9. If You Don’t Know Me By Now SINGLE

If you don’t know me by now
You will never never never know me

All the things
That we’ve been through
You should understand me
Like I understand you
Now girl I know the difference
Between right and wrong
I ain’t gonna do nothing
To break up our happy home
Don’t get so excited
When I come home
A little late at night
Cos we only act like children
When we argue fuss and fight

If you don’t know me by now
You will never never never know me

We’ve all got our
Own funny moods
I’ve got mine,
Woman you’ve got yours too
Just trust in me like I trust in you
As long as we’ve been together
It should be so easy to do
Just get yourself together
Or we might as well say goodbye
What good is a love affair
When you can’t see eye to eye

If you don’t know me by now
You will never
Never never know me

Words and music Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff
Mighty Three Music Group/Island Music Ltd

10. Enough

Alright, you’re right
Let’s talk it over now
Talk it over now
I’m wrong, you’re gone
So you’re serious
Really serious
You’re saying I’m insane
Oh that craziness
Craziness
I’m trying to find
Its real meaning
Insanity

When I get home again
Everything we said
It seemed to holds us
Back again, again
When I get home then
We try to make it better
In the same
Damn way again, again

So long, you’re gone
You’re really leaving me, leaving
There’s no prize for goodbyes
No joy either, either
You’re saying I’m insane
Oh that’s craziness
Craziness
I’m trying to find
Its real meaning
Insanity

When I get home again
Everything we said
It seemed to hold us
Back again, again
When I get home then
We try to make it better
In the same
Damn way again, again

Enough
I’ve had enough
Oh I’m leaving

Words and music Mick Hucknall & Joe Sample
So What Ltd/SBK Songs Ltd/Four Knights Music

Album Credits

Mick Hucknall – Vocals (*All Vocals on Enough)
Fritz McIntyre – Keyboards & Backing Vocals (*except Enough)
Tim Kellett – Trumpet & Keyboards
Chris Joyce – Drums
Tony Bowers – Bass
Heitor T P – Guitars
Ian Kirkham – Saxophones

Produced by Stewart Levine for Oliverea Productions Ltd
Engineered and Mixed by Daren Klein
Recorded at Air Studios, Montserrat
Preparation in Gallarate, Italia
Mixed at Ocean Way Studios, LA
Assistant Engineers Karl Lever and Clark Germain
Synthesiser Programming by Erik Hanson and Larry Williams

Percussion – Lennie Castro
Backing Vocals – Stephanie Spruell (*except Enough)

Mastered by Bernie Grundman at Grundman Mastering
Cover photography – Juergen Teller
Inner sleeve photography – Sheila Rock/Juergen Teller
Sleeve Design – Peter Barrett & Andrew Biscomb
Representation:
Worldwide – Elliot Rashman and Andy Dodd at So What Arts Ltd
The Americas – in association with Burton Management
All tracks used by kind permission of the publishers

Four singles were released from the album, including a cover of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff’s ‘If You Don’t Know Me By Now’, which became Simply Red’s second US Number 1.

The band played another 140 live shows during the New Flame period, firmly establishing themselves as a must-see live act across the globe.

Critical Acclaim

“Top-notch purveyors of smooth soul, Simply Red deliver this excellent version of the old Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes classic, lifted from their already platinum-selling A New Flame LP. As a follow-up to their ‘It’s Only Love’ hit, it’s a sure fire winner. Expect mass exposure”

Listen

A New Flame (Expanded Version)

If You Don't Know Me By Now

Live in Manchester, 1990

Videos

View a mix of live and official Simply Red videos

If You Don't Know Me By NowLive at Sydney Opera House

If You Don't Know Me By NowLive In Hamburg, 1992

It's Only LoveOfficial Video

If You Don't Know Me By NowLive at Montreux Jazz Festival, 1992

It's Only LoveLive from Budapest, 2009

You've Got ItOfficial Video

It's Only LoveLive at Montreux Jazz Festival 1992

A New FlameSymphonica In Rosso

A New FlameOfficial Video

A New FlameLive In Hamburg, 1992

You've Got ItLive In Liverpool, 2016

If You Don't Know Me By NowOfficial Video

The Story Of Simply Red

Part 2 – A New Flame

Single Artwork

If You Don't Know Me By Now Single Artwork

Album Artwork

Tour Dates

17 February 1989
Dublin, Ireland : RDS

18 February 1989
Belfast, N. Ireland : Maysfield

19 February 1989
Glasgow, UK : Barrowlands

20 February 1989
Edinburgh, UK : Playhouse

22 February 1989 23 February 1989
Manchester, UK : Apollo

28 February 1989 01 March 1989
Newcastle, UK : City Hall

03 March 1989
Bridlington, UK : Spa Hall

04 March 1989
Blackpool, UK : Opera Centre

06 March 1989
Bournemouth, UK : Bournemouth Centre

07 March 1989
St Austell, UK : Coliseum

09 March 1989 11 March 1989
London, UK : Wembley Arena

13 March 1989
Brighton, UK : Brighton Centre

15 March 1989 16 March 1989
Birmingham, UK : NEC

01 April 1989
Boston, USA : Nightstage

05 April 1989 07 April 1989
New York, USA : Bottom Line

09 April 1989
Ottawa, Canada : National Arts Centre

10 April 1989
Montreal, Canada : St Denis Theatre

11 April 1989
Toronto, Canada : Roy Thompson Hall

13 April 1989
Vancouva, USA : Queen Elizabeth Theatre

15 April 1989 16 April 1989
San Francisco, USA : Slims

20 April 1989 23 April 1989
Los Angeles, USA : Roxy

09 May 1989
Hamburg, Germany : Sporthalle

10 May 1989 11 May 1989
Berlin, Germany : Tempodrom

12 May 1989
Hannover, Germany : Eilenreidehalle

14 May 1989 15 May 1989
Frankfurt, Germany : Alte Oper

16 May 1989
Munich, Germany : Sedlmayerhalle

17 May 1989
Ulm, Germany : Donauhalle

19 May 1989
Freiburg, Germany : Stadhalle

20 May 1989
Wurzburg, Germany : Carl-Diem Halle

22 May 1989
Struttgart, Germany : Liederhall

23 May 1989
Ludwigshafen, Germany : Eberthalle

24 May 1989
Saarbruecken, Germany : Saarlandhalle

26 May 1989
Cologne, Germany : Sporthalle

27 May 1989
Essen, Germany : Grugahalle

28 May 1989
Lugano, Switzerland : Centro Esposizioni

29 May 1989
Bern, Switzerland : Festhalle

31 May 1989
Vienna, Austria : Austria Centre

01 June 1989
Treviso, Italy : Palaverde

02 June 1989
Milan, Italy : Palatrussardi

03 June 1989
Turin, Italy : Palasport

05 June 1989
Florence, Italy : Palasport

06 June 1989
Iese, Italy : Palasport

07 June 1989
Perugia, Italy : Palasport

09 June 1989
Cava, Italy : Stadio Dei Tirreni

10 June 1989
Rome, Italy : Palaeur

11 June 1989
Modena, Italy : Palasport

12 June 1989
Nice, France : Theatre De Verdure

14 June 1989
Paris, France : Zenith

15 June 1989
Groningen, Holland : Martinihal

16 June 1989
Rotterdam, Holland : Ahoy

17 June 1989
Maastricht, Holland : MECC

29 June 1989
London, UK : Royal Albert Hall

01 July 1989 02 July 1989
London, UK : Royal Albert Hall

26 July 1989
Tokyo, Japan : NHK Hall

28 July 1989
Kawasaki, Japan : Club Citta

30 July 1989
Tokyo, Japan : NHK Hall

31 July 1989
Osaka, Japan : Festival Hall

02 August 1989
Nagoya, Japan : Shi Kokaido

06 August 1989 07 August 1989
Wellington, New Zealand : Town Hall

08 August 1989 09 August 1989
Auckland, New Zealand : Logan Campbell Centre

11 August 1989 13 August 1989
Melbourne, Australia : Palais Theatre

15 August 1989
Canberra, Australia : Royal Theatre

17 August 1989
Adelaide, Australia : Thebarton Theatre

19 August 1989
Perth, Australia : Entertainment Centre

22 August 1989
Melbourne, Australia : Festival Hall

23 August 1989 25 August 1989
Sydney, Australia : Entertainment Centre

23 September 1989
Puerto Rico, USA : University of Puerto Rico

26 September 1989
Florida, USA : Deco Nightclub

28 September 1989
Atlanta, USA : Centre Stage

30 September 1989
Boston, USA : Orpheum

01 October 1989
New York, USA : The Ritz

06 October 1989
Los Angeles, USA : Palladium

08 October 1989 09 October 1989
San Francisco, USA : Warfield Theatre

04 January 1990
Dublin, Ireland : The Point Theatre

05 January 1990
Belfast, N.Ireland : Kings Hall

08 January 1990 10 January 1990
London, UK : Wembley Arena

12 January 1990 13 January 1990
London, UK : Docklands Arena

14 January 1990
Bournemouth, UK : International Centre

17 January 1990 19 January 1990
Manchester, UK : G-Mex

23 January 1990 25 January 1990
Birmingham, Uk : NEC

30 January 1990 01 February 1990
London, UK : Docklands Arena

20 February 1990
Paris, France : Bercy

21 February 1990
Brussels, Belgium : Forest National

24 February 1990
Stockholm, Sweden : Isstadion

26 February 1990
Oslo, Norway : Skedsmo

27 February 1990
Copenhagen, Denmark : Falconer

01 March 1990
E. Berlin, Germany : Werner Seelenbinder Halle

02 March 1990
W. Berlin, Germany : Deutschlandhalle

03 March 1990
Hamburg, Germany : Sporthalle

06 March 1990
Frankfurt, Germany : Festhalle

07 March 1990
Cologne : Sporthalle

09 March 1990
Munich, Germany : Olympiahalle

10 March 1990
Innsbruck, Austria : Olympiahalle

12 March 1990
Zurich, Switzerland : Hallenstadion

13 March 1990
Milan, Italy : Palatrussardi

14 March 1990
Udine, Italy : Palasport

16 March 1990
Modena, Italy : Palasport

18 March 1990
Montpellier : Zenith

19 March 1990
Bordeaux : La Patinoire

21 March 1990
Rotterdam, Holland : Ahoy

Merch

A New Flame - T-Shirt — Europe '22 New Flame t-shirt

Simply RedA New Flame

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Critical Acclaim

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