Let Me Fly Mike + The Mechanics

• 1Let Me Fly04:42
• 2Are You Ready04:27
• 3Wonder04:36
• 4The Best Is Yet To Come04:00
• 5Save The World04:42
• 6Don't Know What Came Over Me04:20
• 7High Life02:49
• 8The Letter04:55
• 9Not Out Of Love04:17
• 10Love Left Over03:27
• 11I'll Be There For You03:31
• 12Save My Soul04:49
• Total Runtime50:35

Info for Let Me Fly

Mike + The Mechanics are Mike Rutherford, Andrew Roachford, Tim Howar, Gary Wallis, Luke Juby and Anthony Drennan. 'Let Me Fly' is the 8th studio album from the band and returns to the early Mechanics sound.

Formed in 1985 by Genesis founding member Mike Rutherford, Mike + The Mechanics released their first album in 1985 and have gone on to achieve an enviable string of hit singles and albums.

Even inside Genesis, Mike Rutherford’s forte has always been his melodic songwriting. With the successful side project Mike & the Mechanics, the artist managed to find a further way to express himself working with other composers and different teams. Since 1985, Mechanics became a brand in their own, releasing seven albums, selling more than 10 million records, launching many hit singles and touring worldwide with a two frontmen led band.

The sudden death of one of the original singers, Paul Young, needed a period of adjustment but, after one experimental album with Paul Carrack as the only vocalist, Rutherford changed the face to the band recruiting two new singers, Andrew Roachford and Tim Howar.

"Let Me Fly is the second album from the latter-day incarnation of Mike + the Mechanics, the one featuring Andrew Roachford and Tim Howar splitting lead vocal duties. By this point, any of Mike Rutherford's lingering prog influences are long gone, leaving a streamlined and polished professional pop group. Even when the pace quickens and the arrangements sparkle, the affair seems subdued and, to that end, Roachford never quite gets the chance to stretch his chops. Then again, virtuosity isn't the name of the game here: this is gleaming mature pop, music for well-tailored moods and, to that end, it succeeds." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

Mike Rutherford, electric guitars, bass guitar, drum programming, backing vocals
Tim Howar, lead vocals (tracks 2, 4, 7, 10), backing vocals
Andrew Roachford, lead vocals (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12), backing vocals, keyboards
Luke Juby, keyboards
Anthony Drennan, electric guitars
Gary Wallis, drums
Additional musicians:
Clark Datchler, acoustic piano (tracks 5, 6, 9)
Zak Kemp, drum programming (tracks 5, 6)
Patrick Mascall, programming (tracks 8, 11)
Xavier Barnett, vocal choir (tracks 1)
Godfrey Gayle, vocal choir (tracks 1)
Priscilla Jones-Campbell, vocal choir (tracks 1)
Cherrice Kirton, vocal choir (tracks 1)
Joy Malcolm, vocal choir (tracks 1)
Subrina McCalla, vocal choir (tracks 1)

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Mike + The Mechanics
Even inside Genesis, Mike Rutherford’s forte has always been his melodic songwriting. With the successful side project Mike & the Mechanics, the artist managed to find a further way to express himself working with other composers and different teams. Since 1985, Mechanics became a brand in their own, releasing seven albums, selling more than 10 million records, launching many hit singles and touring worldwide with a two frontmen led band. The sudden death of one of the original singers, Paul Young, needed a period of adjustment but, after one experimental album with Paul Carrack as the only vocalist, Rutherford changed the face to the band recruiting two new singers, Andrew Roachford and Tim Howar. While the album including their most famous song, Living Years, celebrates its 25th anniversary, Mike & The Mechanics are still hitting the road, to the pleasure of the fans worldwide.

This album contains no booklet.