Mike + the Mechanics (1985 album)

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Mike + The Mechanics
Studio album by Mike + The Mechanics
Released	Oct. 1985
Recorded	AIR Studios, Montserrat
Genre	Pop Rock
Length	39:57
Label	Atlantic (US/Canada) WEA (Rest of World) Virgin (non-US/Canada reissue)
Producer	Christopher Neil
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Mike + The Mechanics chronology
Acting Very Strange (by Mike Rutherford) (1982) Mike + The Mechanics (1985) The Living Years (1988)

Mike + The Mechanics is the debut album released by Genesis bassist and guitarist Mike Rutherford's side project Mike + The Mechanics in 1985. The album reached number 26 on the Billboard 200 album charts and had two hit singles: "Silent Running," featuring lead vocals by Paul Carrack, and the up-tempo "All I Need Is a Miracle". Both songs reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 charts, peaking at numbers 6 and 5 respectively. The third single off the album, the ballad "Taken In" was a lesser hit, reaching #32 on the Hot 100 and #7 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Singles chart.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Mike Rutherford and Christopher Neil, except where noted.

1. "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)" (Rutherford, B. A. Robertson) – 6:10
2. "All I Need Is a Miracle" – 4:10
3. "Par Avion" – 3:36
4. "Hanging By a Thread" (Rutherford, Neil, Robertson) – 4:40
5. "I Get the Feeling" – 4:27
6. "Take the Reins" - (Rutherford, Neil, Robertson) – 4:18
7. "You Are the One" – 3:41
8. "A Call to Arms" - (Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Rutherford, Neil, Robertson) – 4:38
9. "Taken In" – 4:17

"A Call to Arms" was a song leftover from the Genesis album sessions. Rutherford received permission from fellow Genesis bandmates Collins and Tony Banks to appropriate it for the Mechanics.

[edit] Personnel

• Mike Rutherford - guitar & bass
• Paul Young - lead vocals on "All I Need Is a Miracle", "Hanging By a Thread", "Take the Reins", "Taken In"
• Paul Carrack - lead vocals on "Silent Running", "I Get the Feeling", "A Call to Arms"
• Adrian Lee - keyboards
• Peter Van Hooke - drums

[edit] Additional personnel

• John Kirby - lead vocals on "Par Avion"
• Gene Stashuck - lead vocals on "You Are the One"
• Dereck Austin - keyboards
• Ray Beavis - saxophone
• John Earle - saxophone
• Luis Jardim - percussion
• Allan Murphy - guitar
• Ian Wherry - keyboards
• Alan Carvel - background vocals
• Christopher Neil - background vocals
• Linda Taylor - background vocals