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A New Flame
Studio album by Simply Red
Released	13 February 1989 (1989-02-13)
Recorded	1988–1989
Studio	AIR Studios (Montserrat, West Indies)
Genre	Blue-eyed soul
Length	41:03
Label	Elektra WEA
Producer	Stewart Levine
Simply Red chronology
Men and Women (1987) A New Flame (1989) Stars (1991)
Singles from A New Flame
"It’s Only Love" Released: 16 January 1989 "If You Don’t Know Me By Now" Released: 27 March 1989 "A New Flame" Released: 26 June 1989 "You've Got It" Released: 16 October 1989

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Robert Christgau	C+
Los Angeles Times
The New York Times	(favorable)
Number One
Rolling Stone

A New Flame is the third album by British pop and soul group Simply Red, released in February 1989. It was a huge success worldwide, becoming the band's first UK number one album and certified 7× Platinum by the BPI for sales of 2,100,000 copies in the UK alone. The album was also certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.

Track listing

Side one

1. "It's Only Love" (Jimmy Cameron, Vella Cameron) – 4:58
2. "A New Flame" (Mick Hucknall) – 3:57
3. "You've Got It" (Hucknall, Lamont Dozier) – 3:55
4. "To Be with You" (Hucknall) – 3:22
5. "More" (Hucknall) – 4:08

Side two

6. "Turn It Up" (Hucknall, Dozier) – 4:35
7. "Love Lays Its Tune" (Hucknall) – 4:05
8. "She'll Have to Go" (Hucknall) – 3:10
9. "If You Don't Know Me by Now" (Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff) – 3:24
10. "Enough" (Hucknall, Joe Sample) – 5:10

2008 Collector’s Edition bonus tracks

Disc one

11. "I Wish" (Stevie Wonder) – 4:05
12. "X" (Fritz McIntyre, Ian Kirkham, Tim Kellett, Chris Joyce, Tony Bowers) – 4:51
13. "The Great Divide" (S.H.T.G.) (Hucknall) – 3:56
14. "Sugar Daddy" (McIntyre, Kirkham, Kellett, Joyce, Bowers) – 3:40
15. "Funk On Out" (Hucknall) – 3:31

Disc two (DVD)

'Let Me Take You Home'— Live at Manchester 1990

1. "Grandma’s Hands" (Bill Withers)
2. "More" (Hucknall)
3. "Groovy Situation" (Keith Barrington Rowe)
4. "Lady Godiva’s Room" (Hucknall)
5. "Holding Back the Years" (Hucknall, Neil Moss)
6. "Sad Old Red" (Hucknall)
7. "Enough" (Hucknall, Sample)
8. "Turn It Up" (Hucknall, Dozier)
9. "Something Got Me Started"
10. "If You Don't Know Me by Now"
11. "It's Only Love"
12. "Everytime We Say Goodbye"
13. "Resume"

Personnel

Simply Red

• Mick Hucknall – lead vocals and backing vocals
• Fritz McIntyre – keyboards, backing vocals
• Tim Kellett – keyboards, trumpet, live backing vocals
• Heitor TP – guitars
• Tony Bowers – bass
• Chris Joyce – drums
• Ian Kirkham – saxophones

Guest musicians

• Erik Hanson – synthesizer programming
• Larry Williams – synthesizer programming
• Lenny Castro – percussion
• Stephanie Spruill – backing vocals

Production

• Producer – Stewart Levine
• Engineered and mixed by Daren Klein
• Assistant engineers – Clark Germain and Karl Lever
• Recorded at AIR Studios (Montserrat, West Indies)
• Mixed at Ocean Way Recording (Los Angeles, California)
• Mastered by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, California)
• Design – Peter Barrett and Andrew Biscomb
• Cover photograph – Juergen Teller
• Inner sleeve photos – Shelia Rock and Juergen Teller

Charts

Certifications and sales

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• 1989 albums
• Simply Red albums
• Albums produced by Stewart Levine
• Elektra Records albums
• Albums recorded at AIR Studios