Interview with Paul Carrack: The Story Behind Mike + The Mechanics’ Eerie Hit "Silent Running"
Coming up… In 1985 legendary band Genesis took some time off when their lead singer Phil Collins was working on his solo album No Jacket Required. So the band's other prolific songwriter and guitarist Mike Rutherford started his own band… He called it Mike and the Mechanics. They recruited two different singers Paul Young and Paul Carrack and out of nowhere they had a hit album that contained 3 big hits: All I Need is a Miracle, Taken In, and today’s song Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground) which went to #1. This massive hit was renamed when it was chosen to be in a 1986 movie called Choke…
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