Simply Red’s radio-friendly brand of blue-eyed soul hasn’t always found favour with critics, but by the time their fourth LP Stars arrived in 1991 there was little that a few lukewarm reviews could do to stop the band’s third album from becoming a chart-topping juggernaut, spawning hits such as ‘Something Got Me Started’ and becoming the band’s most successful record yet.

1 Something Got Me Started
2 Stars
3 Thrill Me
4 Your Mirror
5 She’s Got It Bad
6 For Your Babies
7 Model
8 How Could I Fall
9 Freedom S
10 Wonderland