Stay (Simply Red album)

Stay
Studio album by Simply Red
Released 12 March 2007 (UK)
24 April 2007 (North America)
10 October 2007 (Japan)[1]
Genre Soul
Length 43:39
Label Simplyred.com
Avex Group (Japan)
Producer Andy Wright (tracks 1-6)
Mick Hucknall (tracks 1-3, 6-11)
Simply Red chronology
Simplified
(2005)
Stay
(2007)
Simply Red 25: The Greatest Hits
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic link
The Guardian link
Uncut[2]

Stay is the tenth studio album from British pop group Simply Red. It was released on 12 March 2007 in the UK and entered the official charts at #4. Stay features 10 original tracks and a cover version of "Debris" by The Faces. The song most popular and played on radios is "So Not Over You".

Track listing

  1. "The World and You Tonight" – 3:33
  2. "So Not Over You" – 3:50
  3. "Stay" – 3:04
  4. "They Don't Know" – 3:40
  5. "Oh! What a Girl!" – 3:51
  6. "Good Times Have Done Me Wrong" – 5:20
  7. "Debris" – 4:52
  8. "Lady" – 5:00
  9. "Money TV" – 4:05
  10. "The Death of the Cool" – 3:26
  11. "Little Englander" – 3:06

2014 Expanded Edition

Disc 1
Radio Edits
  1. "Oh! What A Girl! (Radio Version)" - 3:48
  2. "Stay (Radio Mix)" - 3:07
  3. "So Not Over You (Single Version)" - 3:31
  4. "Go Now (Single Version)" - 3:27
  5. "Stay (7th Heaven Radio Edit)" - 4:10
  6. "So Not Over You (Johnny Douglas Radio Mix)" - 3:46
Disc 2
Remixes
  1. "Go Now (Trance Vocal)" - 3:47
  2. "Oh! What A Girl! (Sweet Connection Club Mix)" - 6:44
  3. "Stay (7th Heaven Vocal Mix)" - 7:41
  4. "Go Now (Triple Dee Club Remix)" - 7:09
  5. "Oh! What A Girl! (Tom Belton Vocal Mix)" - 7:54
  6. "So Not Over You (Motivo Pop-Lectro Remix)" - 4:59
  7. "Stay (Grant Nelson Club Mix)" - 5:51
  8. "Go Now (Alex B Very Vocal)" - 7:00
Bonus Tracks
  1. "Beside You" - 3:40
  2. "Oh! What A Girl! (Live)" - 4:36
  3. "Debris (Sirius Radio Session)" - 4:06
  4. "Stay (Sirius Radio Session)" - 3:25
  5. "So Not Over You (Sirius Radio Session)" - 3:37
DVD
Feature Interview
  1. "Mark Goodier Interviews Mick Hucknall About "Stay" - March 2014"
Promo Videos
  1. "Oh! What A Girl!"
  2. "So Not Over You"
  3. "Stay (Live)"
  4. "So Not Over You (Live)"
Bonus Feature
  1. "Stay Album EPK"
BBC TV Appearances
  1. "Oh! What A Girl! (Later...With Jools Holland, Broadcast On 18th May 2007)"
  2. "They Don't Know (Later...With Jools Holland, Broadcast On 18th May 2007)"

Singles

Charts and certifications

End of year charts

Year Country Chart Rank
2007 Germany IFPI #92

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Italy (FIMI)[3] Gold 40,000*
Poland (ZPAV)[4] Gold 10,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[5] Gold 100,000^

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

Musicians

By this point in the band's career, "Simply Red" was essentially a trade name for Mick Hucknall, who appeared to be the only permanent member of the group. The Stay album credits simply list the musicians who played on the album in alphabetical order, with no listing of what instruments they may have played, or which tracks they may have played on.

Credited musicians are:

Dave Bloor
Sarah Brown
Anthea Clarke
Dave Clayton
Gavin Goldberg
Simon Hale
Geoff Holyrode
Mark Jaimes
Dee Johnson
Jilly Johnson
John Johnson
Ian Kirkham
Pete Lewinson
Steve Lewinson
Chris De Margary
Jim McWiliam
Willie Fister
Patrick Murdock
Kevin Robinson
Danny Saxon
Morton Schjolin
Kenji Suzuki
Andy Wright
The London Session Orchestra, led by Gavin Wright

Oddly, Hucknall does not appear on the album's list of musicians.

References

  1. "STAY : SIMPLY RED : avex network". Avexnet.jp. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
  2. Adam Sweeting Uncut, May 2007, Issue 120
  3. "Simply Red e Ludovico Einaudi raggiungono il disco d’oro". Musica e dischi (in Italian). 11 April 2007. Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  4. "Polish album certifications – Simply Red – Stay" (in Polish). Polish Producers of Audio and Video (ZPAV).
  5. "British album certifications – Simply Red – Stay". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 9 July 2012. Enter Stay in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Gold in the field By Award. Click Search

External links

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