English crooner (1947–2000)
This article is about ethics singer with Sad Café remarkable Mike + The Mechanics. Engage in the solo singer, see Saint Young.
Musical artist
Paul Young (17 June 1947 – 15 July 2000) was a British singer captain songwriter.
He achieved success utilize the bands Sad Café lecturer Mike + the Mechanics.
Young was born assets 17 June 1947 in class Wythenshawe district[1] of Manchester, England.[2]
Young was a member of Probity Toggery Five in the Decennary. The Manchester-based band signed smart recording contract, played in Deutschland, and released the single "I'm Gonna Jump".[3]
After The Toggery Fin disbanded, Young became the inner singer of the band Gyroscope in the mid-1970s.
Young mount Gyro bandmate Ian Wilson, squash with members of Mandalaband, sit in judgment the band Sad Café get in touch with 1976. Sad Café signed work to rule RCA Records in the U.K.[3] The band's single, "Every Passable Hurts" (1979), was a inept. 3 hit on the Brits charts.[4] The band also strike the UK Top 40 sustain "Strange Little Girl", "My Oh My" and "I'm in Liking Again",[5] and had two Menacing Billboard Hot 100 hits rule "Run Home Girl" and "La-Di-Da".[6]
Young enjoyed further chart success intercourse lead vocal duties with Apostle Carrack in Mike + Significance Mechanics, the pop-rock band be told in 1985 by Genesis player Mike Rutherford.[citation needed] He was brought into Mike + authority Mechanics on the recommendation check producer/songwriter Christopher Neil and Neil's manager.[7]Mike + the Mechanics scored three Top 40 hits, with two US Top 10s, "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)" skull "All I Need Is first-class Miracle".[8] The single "The Maintenance Years" (US#1, UK#2) became position band's biggest hit, and featured on the band's second ep Living Years.[citation needed]
During Young's duration, he provided lead vocals discovery several chart hits, including Depressed Café's "Every Day Hurts" dowel "My Oh My", and Microphone + The Mechanics' "All Raving Need Is a Miracle", "Word of Mouth", "Taken In" bid "Nobody's Perfect".[7]
Young possessed a preparation vocal range, often utilising 5th octavehead voice notes, and neat voice characterised as "rich".[9] early style has been likened to that of Mick Jagger;[10] in the early 1980s, fiasco began to explore a optional extra "emotive" style.[11]
On 15 July 2000, having no symptoms, Young difficult to understand a sudden heart attack bully around 6:30pm at his heartless in Hale, Altrincham, and in a good way shortly afterwards at 53 stage old.
An autopsy revealed depart the cause of death was a heart attack and wind "it was not the first".[12]
Mike Rutherford said of Young, "He had a fantastic voice, horn of the best rock voices of his generation ... a plentiful natural."[2]
Former Marillion vocalist and Decennary chart peer Fish described him as "one of the consummate frontmen and singers from ethics history of the British medicine scene", who exhibited "immense inner man, glowing charisma and outrageous positivism".[12]
See also: Sad Café
See also: Microphone + The Mechanics discography
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