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Simply Red (Mick Hucknall)

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The Resume

    (June 8, 1960- )
    Birth name is Michael James Hucknall
    Leader of the band Simply Red
    Recorded 'Money's Too Tight to Mention' (1985), 'Holding Back the Years' (1985), 'The Right Thing' (1987), 'It's Only Love' (1989), 'If You Don't Know Me By Know' (1989), 'Stars,' (1991), 'Fairground' (1995), 'Angel' (1996), 'The Air That I Breathe' (1998), 'Ain't That a Lot of Love' (1999), 'Sunrise' (2003) and 'Fake' (2003)

Why he might be annoying:

    For a time in the '90s, he wore dreadlocks.
    He is rumored to be promiscuous and has said, 'I could never use a condom,' to 'New Musical Express' in 1986.
    He doesn't acknowledge his half-brother and half-sister as siblings.
    He had a healthy tooth removed and replaced by a fake one with a ruby in it.
    He changed the ruby to a diamond in 2000 to celebrate the new millennium.
    Simply Red is not really a band, just Mike Hucknall with backing musicians.

Why he might not be annoying:

    Simply Red won a Grammy in 1989 for Best R&B Song.
    'Stars' was the biggest-selling album in England in 1991 and 1992.
    He was raised by his father after his mother abandoned the family.
    He gained weight in the '90s and was dubbed 'Amply Fed' by the British press.
    He is ambidextrous.
    He dated Catherine Zeta Jones.

Credit: Adrian Lopez


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 10 Votes: 30.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 22 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 56 Votes: 46.43% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 20 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 37 Votes: 45.95% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 19 Votes: 42.11% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 68 Votes: 54.41% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 21 Votes: 47.62% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 28 Votes: 67.86% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 43 Votes: 55.81% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 38 Votes: 65.79% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 128 Votes: 51.56% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 132 Votes: 70.45% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 274 Votes: 68.25% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 537 Votes: 47.11% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 372 Votes: 69.89% Annoying