Simply Red - Stars (1991/2008) [Complete 2xCD] Collector's Edition

Stars is the fourth album by British-based pop/soul/jazz band Simply Red, released on 30 September 1991. Five singles were released from the album, including the UK top ten hits "Stars" and "For Your Babies". The album was a worldwide success, particularly in the band's home country where it has been certified twelve times platinum and was the best-selling album of the year in the UK for both 1991 and 1992, the first album to be the best-seller in two consecutive years since Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge over Troubled Water in 1970–1971. As of April 2019 it is the 14th best-selling album of all time in the UK.

The album was on the shortlist of nominees for the 1992 Mercury Prize. In 2000 Q placed Stars at number 80 in its list of "The 100 Greatest British Albums Ever".

In 2000 it was voted number 258 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.

Tracklist:
CD-1
The Original Album
01 - Something Got Me Started 0:00
02 - Stars 4:00
03 - Thrill Me 8:08
04 - Your Mirror 13:12
05 - She's Got It Bad 17:11
06 - For Your Babies 20:46
07 - Model 25:04
08 - How Could I Fall 28:50
09 - Freedom
10 - Wonderland

Robert Johnson Sessions
11 - Come On In My Kitchen 41:18
12 - Ramblin' On My Mind
13 - Me And The Devil Blues
14 - When You've Got A Good Friend

Live In Hamburg 1992
15 - Sad Old Red 49:07
16 - More
17 - Something Got Me Started
18 - Thrill Me
19 - Your Mirror
20 - She's Got It Bad

CD-2
Mixes
21 - Stars (Pm-ized Mix) 1:16:21
22 - For Your Babies (Edition Francais)
23 - Something Got Me Started (E-Smoove's Late Night Mix) 1:24:39
24 - Thrill Me (Steppin' Razor Mix)
25 - Freedom (Perfecto Mix)
26 - Stars (Comprende Mix)
27 - Something Got Me Started (Hurley's 7' Mix)
28 - Thrill Me (Connoisseurs Mix)
29 - Freedom (How Long Mix)
30 - Something Got Me Started (Perfecto Mix)
31 - Thrill Me (Nellee Hooper's Dub Mix)

Simply Red
Mick Hucknall – lead vocals, backing vocals
Fritz McIntyre – keyboards, additional vocals on "Freedom and “Something Got Me Started" and "Wonderland"
Rowetta – additional vocal on “Freedom”
Tim Kellett – keyboards
Heitor TP – guitars
Shaun Ward – bass
Gota Yashiki – drums, percussion, programming
Ian Kirkham – saxophones