Living Years (with the SWR Big Band) - Paul Carrack - MP3 instrumental karaoke

English singer-songwriter Paul Carrack has had one of the busiest and most interesting careers in the history of rock music. Since his debut in the mid-1970s as the frontman of British rockers Ace, he rose to international fame as a member of Roger Waters' Bleeding Heart Band, Squeeze, and Mike + The Mechanics, a British supergroup formed by Genesis' Mike Rutherford. In 1988, Paul Carrack sang lead vocals on the track "The Living Years," the second single from Mike + The Mechanics' second studio album of the same name. The soft rock ballad was written by B. A. Robertson and Mike Rutherford, and addressed a man's regret over an unresolved conflict with his late father. It became the group's first and only Number 1 single in the US, topping the Billboard Hot 100 while also reaching the top of the charts in countries like Australia, Canada, and Ireland. The song would go on to become a staple of Paul Carrack's live repertoire over the following decades, making an appearance in the compilation Greatest Hits: The Story So Far (2006) as well as in the live albums Paul Carrack Live at the London Palladium (2016), and Another Side of Paul Carrack (2020), recorded with the German orchestra SWR Big Band.