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Description: Living Years is the second album by Mike + The Mechanics, released in 1988. The album reached number 13 on the Billboard 200 and number 2 on the UK albums chart. he first single taken off the album, "Nobody's Perfect," peaked at number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100. The next single off the album, the title track, was a worldwide number one hit, reaching that mark on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week ending March 25, 1989. The song also reached number one on the Australian ARIA singles chart the week ending May 13, 1989. In the United Kingdom, it spent three weeks at number 2 in January and February 1989, behind Mar Living Years is the second album by Mike + The Mechanics, released in 1988. The album reached number 13 on the Billboard 200 and number 2 on the UK albums chart.

he first single taken off the album, "Nobody's Perfect," peaked at number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100. The next single off the album, the title track, was a worldwide number one hit, reaching that mark on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week ending March 25, 1989. The song also reached number one on the Australian ARIA singles chart the week ending May 13, 1989. In the United Kingdom, it spent three weeks at number 2 in January and February 1989, behind Marc Almond and Gene Pitney's reworking of "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart."

The title track, "The Living Years" was co-written by Rutherford and B. A. Robertson, both of whose fathers had recently died. The song combined features of each writer's relationship with their father; it dealt with Rutherford's strained relationship with his late father and the birth of Robertson's son three months after his father's death.[citation needed] Further contributing to the authenticity of this track was the fact that Paul Carrack, who would sing lead on the recording, had himself lost his father when he was only eleven years old.

Phil Collins and Tony Banks, Rutherford's Genesis bandmates, made a guest appearance playing the riff on "Black and Blue" (a sample by Banks of Collins and Rutherford playing a riff during the Invisible Touch sessions).

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

1. "Nobody's Perfect" (Rutherford, B. A. Robertson) — 4:48
2. "Living Years" (Rutherford, Robertson) — 5:32
3. "Seeing Is Believing" (Rutherford, Robertson) — 3:13
4. "Nobody Knows" — 4:24
5. "Poor Boy Down" — 4:33
6. "Blame" — 5:24
7. "Don't" — 5:45
8. "Black and Blue" (Robertson, Rutherford, Paul Young) — 3:27
9. "Beautiful Day" (Neil, Rutherford, Young) — 3:39
10. "Why Me?" (Rutherford, Robertson) — 6:26
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Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
Release date: 25 October 1990
EAN: 0075678192326 UPC: 075678192326

Tags: 1988 (1), Mike + The Mechanics (1)

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