We were skint, but it was magical.ДЄfter Holding Back the Years became a hit, my mum tracked me down, but I thought: вЂњMy dad was there every day. We shared a flat, we toured with the Fall. Neil didnвЂ™t write it, but we wrote so many songs together that I gave him a credit to remember the great times we had. The song is credited to me and Neil Moss, the guitarist in the Frantic Elevators and my oldest friend. When the Elevators split and I started Simply Red, I returned to the song and wrote the вЂњIвЂ™ll keep holding onвЂќ chorus. I first sang Holding Back the Years in my earliest band, Frantic Elevators. When it became a hit my mum tracked me down I realised there was no future in it Mick Hucknall My mum left when I was three and my dad never remarried. The line вЂњStrangled by the wishes of paterвЂќ is my dad screaming at me: вЂњWhen are you going to get a decent job? Tidy up after yourself!вЂќ The line вЂњHoping for the arms of materвЂќ rhymes with pater, but I didnвЂ™t know what it was like to have a mother. ItвЂ™s about that moment where you know you have to leave home and make your mark, but the outside world is scary. I didnвЂ™t realise what it was about until IвЂ™d finished it. The first song I wrote was called Ice Cream and Wafers. At art school, a teacher said: вЂњThe best paintings are when you get lost in a piece of work and start painting in a stream of consciousness.вЂќ I wanted to do music, not art, so started writing lyrics that way. I wrote the song in 1978, while I was a teenager.

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