Having recently announced that the band will be splitting in 2009, Hucknall grants Songbook an intimate reflection on his career spanning 23 years and a rare insight into his creative mind, revealing how he wrote half of Holding Back The Years in under an hour, but only completed the song nine years later. Songs performed:

Holding Back the Years
For Your Babies
You've Got It
Someday In My Life

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