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Similarly to Steely Dan or The Alan Parsons Project, in the studio Mike and the Mechanics were not a tight-knit band but a vehicle for the songwriting of Rutherford, Robertson, and Neil, and session keyboardists, drummers, guitarists, and even lead vocalists often performed on the songs in place of the official band members. Indeed, the line-up ...
Members of the rock band Mike + The Mechanics. Pages in category "Mike + The Mechanics members" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Mike + the Mechanics scored three Top 40 hits, including two US Top 10s, "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)" and "All I Need Is a Miracle". [8] The single "The Living Years" (US#1, UK#2) became the band's biggest hit, and featured on the band's second album Living Years. [citation needed]
Peter Van Hooke (born 6 April 1950) is an English rock drummer and producer with over 350 credits to his name. [1] He was the drummer for the English band Mike + The Mechanics (from 1985 to 1995) [2] [3] and also drummed for Van Morrison's band, [4] Headstone, and Ezio.
From this point forward, Carrack consistently maintained both a solo career and a career in Mike + The Mechanics. This band recorded and toured irregularly due to Rutherford's commitments with Genesis. In 1989, Mike + The Mechanics had a UK number two and US number one hit with "The Living Years", on which Carrack again sang lead. [2]
Lee was a member of Mike + The Mechanics until 1995. Lee continued to write, produce and perform with other artists throughout his period with the Mechanics. In 1985, Lee was involved with the production, writing, and keyboards for Space Monkey , [ 12 ] and he recorded on albums with artists such as Silent Running on the album Deep (1989), [ 13 ...
"The Living Years" is a soft rock ballad written by B. A. Robertson and Mike Rutherford, and recorded by Rutherford's British rock band Mike + The Mechanics. It was released in December 1988 in the United Kingdom and in the United States as the second single from their album Living Years.
In 2009, he was asked to join rock band Mike + The Mechanics as co-frontman with Andrew Roachford, and has spent the past few years recording and touring around the world singing hits such as "All I Need is a Miracle" and "I Can't Dance" to sell-out audiences and arenas. Their latest album of new material Let Me Fly was released in 2017 and ...