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War mir gar nicht mehr bewusst, dass der von mir sehr geschätzte Andrew Roachford dort seit 2010 als Sänger dabei ist: Mike + The Mechanics - Don't Know What Came Over Me

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#Musik #music #MusikZurNacht #MikeAndTheMechanics #AndrewRoachford

"The Living Years" is a song written by #BARobertson and #MikeRutherford, and recorded by Rutherford's rock band #MikeAndTheMechanics. It was released in December 1988 in the United Kingdom and in the United States as the second single from their album #LivingYears. The #ballad was a worldwide chart hit, topping the US #Billboard Hot 100 on 25 March 1989, the band's only number one and last top ten hit on that chart, and reaching number-one in Australia, Canada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k

"Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)" is a song performed by #MikeAndTheMechanics. Written by #MikeRutherford and #BARobertson, it was the first track on the 1985 self-titled debut album of Mike + the Mechanics. It was also released as the band's first single, peaking at number 6 on 8 March 1986 on the #Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number 1 on Billboard's #MainstreamRockTracks chart, where it stayed for five weeks. #PaulCarrack provided lead vocals on the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkdy8JWOqMo

"The Living Years" is a #softRock ballad written by #BARobertson and #MikeRutherford, and recorded by Rutherford's rock band #MikeAndTheMechanics. It was released in December 1988 in the United Kingdom and in the United States as the second single from their album #LivingYears. The song was a chart hit around the world, topping the US #Billboard Hot 100 on 25 March 1989, the band's only number one and last top ten hit on that chart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hr64MxYpgk

Getting grounded = getting inspired:

Watch #Number24 on #netflix about how #Oslo became a pain in the ass for #Nazis in the 1940s.

#ProjectX on #cbcgem on how Canadians helped the French underground in #wwii.

#PaulGross's movies about #America taking over #Canada, for #water.

Those declassified #cia documents on #sabotage and #counterinsurgency: @simple_sabotage

And #MikeandtheMechanics 1980s video #SilentRunning": https://youtu.be/i17mgRK3GX8?si=DjWcUKVfdalriDdq

Not seen #reddawn in years. Does it hold up?

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"The Living Years" is a #softRock ballad written by #BARobertson and #MikeRutherford, and recorded by Rutherford's rock band #MikeAndTheMechanics. It was released in December 1988 in the United Kingdom and in the United States as the second single from their album #LivingYears. The song was a chart hit around the world, topping the US #Billboard Hot 100 on 25 March 1989, the band's only number one and last top ten hit on that chart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1eG6tGXRxQ

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I don’t remember this, but the Instagram and Threads account for the band Genesis posted this today.

On this day in 1986 Genesis and four of it’s five “classic period” members were all in the US Billboard top 40 at the same time.

Genesis was at 37 with Invisible Touch. Not the worst piece of shit in their 80’s pop period, but definitely on the short list.

Steve Hackett’s band GTR, which also included Yes guitarist Steve Howe, was at 35 with When the Heart Rules the Mind.

Peter Gabriel was at 32 with Sledgehammer.

Phil Collins was at 26 with Take Me Home which is a song I completely forgot existed but I guess was a thing.

Mike Rutherford’s mostly awful pop side project Mike and the Mechanics was at number five with pretty awful All I Need is a Miracle.

Five Genesis and Genesis adjacent songs on the top 40 at the same time. It’s not like that week where The Beatles had something like six songs on the top 10 at the same time, but it’s pretty cool.

If only the five songs were… you know… better songs. Why couldn’t the Genesis song been Tonight Tonight Tonight, and the GTR song been Imagining, and the Peter Gabriel song been In Your Eyes (or This is the Picture, or Don’t Give Up, or Red Rain, or Mercy Street), and the Mike and the Mechanics song been… ummm… that one song that I didn’t hate… Silent Running, or something like that… and the Phil Collins song been something that wasn’t awful and completely forgettable which I am not sure was possible in 1986. When did I Don’t Care No More come out? That was long before ’86, wasn’t it?

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/06/07/pop-genesis/

#BillboardTop40 #BillboardTop40SinglesChart #genesis #GTR #hitSingle #mikeAndTheMechanics #Music #peterGabriel #philCollins #progressiveRock #Rock #singlesChart

Happy 73 birthday to the amazing singer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Carrack (Squeeze, Mike & The Mechanics)!

#music #birthday #rock #rocknroll #rockandroll #classicrock #poprock #80s #90s #paulcarrack #squeeze #mikeandthemechanics