On 12th July 1986 Simply Red scored their first US No.1 single with ‘Holding Back The Years’. Singer Mick Hucknall wrote the song when he was just seventeen while living at his father’s house. The song’s writing credits were shared between Hucknall and Neil Moss, a friend and member of Hucknall’s first group, the Frantic Elevators. But, according to Hucknall, Moss did not co-write the song but was given the credit “to remember the great times we had” as the pair had written so many other songs together. The song was first performed by the Frantic Elevators. But the song’s “I’ll keep holding on” chorus was not added until many years later, after the band had split and Hucknall had formed Simply Red.
In 1979, also on 12th July, the Disco Demolition Night took place at Comiskey Park in Chicago. The organisers of the event asked people to bring along disco records for them to be blown up. The event was not the success that the Disco Sucks movement hoped it would be as a riot ensued as fires broke out, six people were injured and 39 were arrested!
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