The best hits from Mike + The Mechanics are assembled on a brand new best-of compilation. Launched forward of a tour by the identical identify, Trying Again – Residing The Years brings collectively tracks from throughout the supergroup’s 40-year profession.
Essentially the most complete Mike + The Mechanics compilation thus far, Trying Again – Residing The Years options the US No. 1 hit “The Living Years,” an Ivor Novello Award winner and Grammy nominee. Additionally on the album are the Grammy-nominated “All I Need Is A Miracle,” the band’s hit debut single “Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground),” the worldwide smash “Over My Shoulder,” and rather more. All the band’s lead vocalists—Paul Younger, Paul Carrack, Andrew Roachford, and Tim Howar—are represented on the tracklist.
The accompanying Trying Again – Residing The Years tour will probably be a celebration of Mike + The Mechanics’ four-decade run. The tour will traverse the UK in March and April, then transition to Germany in April and Could, with Mike Rutherford joined by present lead vocalists Andrew Roachford and Tim Howar. The band has teased a setlist stuffed with “all the hits and a drift into Genesis.”
Rutherford, a founding member of Genesis and the band’s longtime lead guitarist, initially began Mike + The Mechanics as a aspect undertaking in 1985 throughout a Genesis hiatus. The Mechanics, which initially matched Rutherford with lead singers Paul Younger (Unhappy Café) and Paul Carrack (Ace, Squeeze), went on to huge success in their very own proper, promoting over 10 million albums worldwide.
After the group’s disbandment in 2004, Rutherford revived it with a brand new lineup in 2010. The present model of Mike + The Mechanics has continued to have success on the UK album chart, touchdown within the Prime 10 with Let Me Fly (2017) and Out of the Blue (2019). The latter album mixed re-recordings of traditional Mike + The Mechanics hits with three new songs.
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