iris, Joe Stalin's Red Star Radio Band, Purple Haze, later Simply Red), Neil Moss (a.k.a. Neil Smith, guitars, keyboards, former Osiris), Brian Turner (bass) and Kevin Williams (drums) released their third single in 1981:
Searching for the Only One (1981)
- Searching for the Only One
- Hunchback of Notre Dame
In September of the same year the band recorded their second Peel Session (And I Don't Care (Nobody Stays Here), After Hanging Around, What To Do? I'm Not To See Her, Ice Cream And Wafers) performing new material and proving the band’s creative productivity. A longish lapse of time was to pass before the Frantic Elevators’ fourth, final and self-financed single, which was released in late 1982:
Holding 
back the Years (1982)
- Holding back the Years
- Pistols in My Brain
Curiously enough the single failed to chart (due to poor distribution), whereas the A-side would resurface a couple of years later to become one of Simply Red’s most celebrated singles.
Although the band had already enough material for a debut album (the singles, the tracks for the Peel session, plus some new numbers like Haven't Got The Power) nothing came out of it. Hucknall quit in 1983, which continued for a few months as The Frantics before definitively disbanding by the end of the year.
(see also:
http://frantic.fluteboy.co.uk/
http://www.franticelevators.co.cc/ )
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