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]
Recorded	2006 - 2007
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
Source	Rating
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

12. "Oh! What A Girl! (Radio Version)" - 3:48
13. "Stay (Radio Mix)" - 3:07
14. "So Not Over You (Single Version)" - 3:31
15. "Go Now (Single Version)" - 3:27
16. "Stay (7th Heaven Radio Edit)" - 4:10
17. "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

9. "Beside You" - 3:40
10. "Oh! What A Girl! (Live)" - 4:36
11. "Debris (Sirius Radio Session)" - 4:06
12. "Stay (Sirius Radio Session)" - 3:25
13. "So Not Over You (Sirius Radio Session)" - 3:37

DVD

Feature Interview

1. "Mark Goodier Interviews Mick Hucknall About "Stay" - March 2014"

Promo Videos

2. "Oh! What A Girl!"
3. "So Not Over You"
4. "Stay (Live)"
5. "So Not Over You (Live)"

Bonus Feature

6. "Stay Album EPK"

BBC TV Appearances

7. "Oh! What A Girl! (Later...With Jools Holland, Broadcast On 18th May 2007)"
8. "They Don't Know (Later...With Jools Holland, Broadcast On 18th May 2007)"

Singles

• "Oh! What a Girl!" (September 2006)
• "So Not Over You" (5 March 2007)
• "Stay" (28 May 2007) ("Stay" received popular Club Mixes from 7th Heaven.)
• "The World and You Tonight" (November 2007)

Charts and certifications

Year-end charts

Year	Country	Chart	Rank
2007	Germany	IFPI	#92

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/Sales
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 Society of the Phonographic Industry.
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

• Stay at Discogs