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"The Living Years" is a soft rock ballad written by B. A. Robertson and Mike Rutherford, and recorded by Rutherford's British rock band Mike + The Mechanics. It was released in December 1988 in the United Kingdom and in the United States as the second single from their album Living Years .
Living Years is the second album by Mike + The Mechanics, released in 1988. The album reached number 13 on the US Billboard 200 and number 2 on the UK Albums Chart . [ 5 ]
The single "The Living Years" (US#1, UK#2), released in 1988, became the band's biggest hit, and featured on the band's second album Living Years.The song was written by Rutherford and Robertson after both of their fathers had recently died, but the lyrics were written solely by Robertson and centred on the unresolved dissension between Robertson and his father.
Mike + The Mechanics, "The Living Years" Unresolved conflict only grows more complicated after a loved one dies, which is heart-wrenchingly detailed in this song about a sour father-son relationship.
Mike + The Mechanics: 1986 "All I Need Is a Miracle" 53 8 10 26 30 — 31 5 "Taken In" — — 39 — — — — 32 "Hanging by a Thread" — — — — — — — — 1988 "Nobody's Perfect" 80 29 30 — — — — 63 Living Years "The Living Years" 2 1 1 13 1 20 11 1 BPI: Gold [7] ARIA: Platinum [17] 1989 "Nobody Knows" 81 — — — 20 ...
Mike + the Mechanics scored three Top 40 hits, including two US Top 10s, "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)" and "All I Need Is a Miracle". [8] The single "The Living Years" (US#1, UK#2) became the band's biggest hit, and featured on the band's second album Living Years. [citation needed]
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