Greatest Hits (Simply Red album)

Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by Simply Red
Released October 1996
Recorded 19851996
Genre Pop
Label Eastwest Records
Producer Stewart Levine
Simply Red chronology

Life
(1995)
Greatest Hits
(1996)
Blue
(1998)
Singles from Greatest Hits
  1. "Angel"
    Released: October 1996

Greatest Hits is the first compilation album released by British pop group Simply Red, which contained material from their first five studio albums (Picture Book, Men and Women, A New Flame, Stars and Life) and included a newer track, a cover of Aretha Franklin's 1973 classic, "Angel".

Track listing

  1. "Holding Back the Years" (Mick Hucknall/Neil Moss) - 4:12 from Picture Book
  2. "Money's Too Tight (to Mention)" (John Valentine/William Valentine) - 4:29 from Picture Book
  3. "The Right Thing" (Hucknall) - 4:22 from Men and Women
  4. "It's Only Love" (Jimmy Cameron/Vella Cameron) - 3:52 from A New Flame
  5. "A New Flame" (Hucknall) - 3:58 from A New Flame
  6. "You've Got It" (Hucknall/Lamont Dozier) - 3:58 from A New Flame
  7. "If You Don't Know Me By Now" (Kenny Gamble/Leon Huff) - 3:26 from A New Flame
  8. "Stars" (Hucknall) - 4:08 from Stars
  9. "Something Got Me Started" (Hucknall/Fritz McIntyre) - 4:00 from Stars
  10. "Thrill Me" (Hucknall/McIntyre) - 5:04 from Stars
  11. "Your Mirror" (Hucknall) - 4:00 from Stars
  12. "For Your Babies" (Hucknall) - 4:18 from Stars
  13. "So Beautiful" (Hucknall) - 5:00 Previously unreleased
  14. "Angel" (Carolyn Franklin/Sonny Saunders) - 4:01 Previously unreleased
  15. "Fairground" (Hucknall) - 4:27 from Life
Preceded by
Natural by Peter Andre
UK number one album
19 October 1996 – 1 November 1996
Succeeded by
Blue Is the Colour by The Beautiful South