Simplicity | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Tim Curry |
Cover: | TimCurry_Simplicity.jpg |
Released: | 1981 |
Recorded: | 1980–1981 |
Genre: | Rock, reggae |
Length: | 34:58 |
Label: | A&M |
Producer: | Michael Kamen |
Prev Title: | Fearless |
Prev Year: | 1979 |
Simplicity is the third album recorded by the English actor/singer Tim Curry, released in 1981.
Whereas his previous album Fearless had been almost entirely original songs, Simplicity is a half-originals, half-covers album and contains a wider variety of source material than the covers on his first album Read My Lips (1978). Covers include a version of the Zombies' "She's Not There" and Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Streets", both of which were hits in 1964. Curry also performs a version of "Take Me, I'm Yours", originally a 1978 hit by Squeeze. "Out of Pawn" was originally by Davis Lasley's band Rosie, produced by Michael Kamen.
The track "Working on My Tan" was released as a single in certain countries (backed with "On a Roll") but was not commercially successful. Curry did not make any promo videos for the album.