Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years flac album

The Living Years" is a ballad written by Mike Rutherford and B. A. Robertson, 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. The song was a chart hit around the world, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 on 25 March 1989, and reaching N. in Canada and Australia and N. in the UK. It spent four weeks at No. 1 on the US Adult Contemporary chart.

Living Years is the second album by Mike + The Mechanics, released in 1988. The album reached number 13 on the Billboard 200 and number 2 on the UK Albums Chart. Mike Rutherford began writing songs for the album in September 1987, shortly after the conclusion of Genesis's Invisible Touch Tour.

Mike + the Mechanics. With The Living Years, Mike + the Mechanics firmly established themselves in the adult contemporary genre after the mid-'80s pop of their debut. Slickly produced with rich vocals from Paul Carrack and Paul Young, The Living Years moves smoothly between anthemic ballads such as the title track and more upbeat numbers such as "Seeing Is Believing.

Mike Rutherford, who was the bass player and later the guitarist for Genesis, formed Mike + the Mechanics as a side project, using Paul Carrack and Paul Young (the one from the band Sad Café, not the solo artist). Carrack, who had a hit in 1987 with "Don't Shed a Tear," sang lead on this song. This garnered a Grammy nomination for Song Of The Year, but lost to "The Wind Beneath My Wings. It did, however, win for Best Song at the Ivor Novello awards.

A ballad written by Mike Rutherford (a founding member of Genesis) and B. Robertson, was released in December 1988 as the second single from their album, Living Years. It hit number 1 spot on the singles charts in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan and on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the . and reached on the Official Singles Chart in the . The song was covered many times – for example by Alabama, Michael Ball, Engelbert Humperdinck and James Last. Select Category 10 000 Maniacs (1) 808 State (1) a-ha (14) Abba (10) ABC (5) Act (2) Adam and The Ants (4) Adam Ant (6) Adventures of Stevie V (1) Aerosmith (3) Air Supply (7) Al Bano & Romina Power (3) Al Corley (3) Alan Parsons Project (7) Alannah Myles (2) Alice (1) Alice Cooper (2) Alison Moyet (5) All About Eve (3).

Anyway, Mike has done a fantastic job in leading the group to create their own sound. This compact disc is strongly recommended just as their first album. You'll love Mike & The Mechanics and you hope that they are still playing after 20 years somewhere. One person found this helpful.

This late-in-the-day 25th Anniversary issue does of course feature The Living Years, a massively successful hit single for Mike Rutherford’s band, that reached number one in the US Billboard charts in March 1989. Full track listing below