Formed by Mike Rutherford as a splinter group who worked during breaks in the
schedule of his day job with Genesis, Mike and The Mechanics hit the big time in
their own right in 1988 with the US number one 'The Living Years', a song
Rutherford wrote (with B.A. Robertson) about his father.
Rutherford originally launched the band in 1984 with Paul Carrack, Paul Young,
Adrian Lee and Peter Van Hooke, with a self-titled debut album and the hit
single 'Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)'. 'The Living Years' was the title
track of their second album and, as Genesis went into semi-...