Simply Red - You've Got It

What this video is

Released in October 1989 as the fourth and final single from Simply Red's chart-topping album A New Flame, 'You've Got It' arrived at the tail end of a commercially dominant period for British sophisti-pop and blue-eyed soul. The track was co-written by Mick Hucknall and Motown legend Lamont Dozier, situating Simply Red at the intersection of contemporary British pop craft and classic American soul lineage. The…

Why it matters

Documents the visual language of late-80s British sophisti-soul at its commercial zenith: a controlled, performance-centred aesthetic that deliberately invoked classic soul and Motown traditions through cinematographic restraint. As a Vaughan & Anthea production, it sits within a corpus of work…

The director

Vaughan Arnell (b. 1961, Chertsey, Surrey) is a British music video and TV commercial director who entered directing in the early 1980s. Anthea Benton is a British director who began as a fashion designer before moving into directing in 1982. Together they…