Fairground (song)

"Fairground"
Single by Simply Red
from the album Life
B-side	"Stars" (live) "The Right Thing" (live)
Released	18 September 1995 (1995-09-18)
Genre	Dance
Length	4:23 (single and video version) 5:34 (album version)
Label	EastWest
Songwriter(s)	Mick Hucknall René ter Horst Gaston Steenkist Sérgio Mendes
Producer(s)	Mick Hucknall Stewart Levine
Simply Red singles chronology
"Your Mirror" (1992) "Fairground" (1995) "Remembering the First Time" (1995)
Music video
"Fairground" on YouTube

"Fairground" is a song by British soul and pop band Simply Red, released on 18 September 1995 by EastWest as the first single from the band's fifth album, Life (1995). Co-written and co-produced by frontman Mick Hucknall, the song makes extensive use of a sample of Dutch duo the Goodmen's 1993 hit "Give It Up". It became Simply Red's first and only No. 1 single on the UK Singles Chart, staying at the top for four weeks in September and October 1995, and was also a chart hit in mainland Europe and Australia but failed to generate long-term success in North America. The accompanying music video for "Fairground" was directed by Michael Geoghegan and filmed in Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Lancashire.