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| | Simply Red : Stars - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
 | | That is a good thing, too, since Stars is the first Simply Red album not to contain any cover songs. |
 | | 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. |
 | | In America, where the band had never established much audience continuity beyond its two number one hit singles, it was a different story, which, given the band's highly American-influenced sound, was a confirmation of the overall decline of English bands in the U.S. in the early '90s. |
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