What song was a UK #1 hit for Mike and the Mechanics in 1989?
Mike and the Mechanics solo albums had been moderately successful, he had never managed a Top 40 hit (except in Canada, where "Maxine" from "Acting Very Strange" reached No. 39); "Mike + the Mechanics" scored three of them, including two US Top 10s, "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)", "All I Need is a Miracle" and an additional #32 hit with "Taken In". "Silent Running" was featured in the movie "On Dangerous Ground", released in North American cinemas in 1986 as "Choke Canyon". 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". The
Over My Shoulder (Mike + The Mechanics song) a junior school classroom. CD maxi Over My Shoulder (Mike + The Mechanics song) "Over My Shoulder" is a pop rock song by British supergroup Mike and the Mechanics. It was released on 13 February 1995 as the first single from their album "Beggar on a Beach of Gold". Sung by Paul Carrack, it was the most successful single from that album, peaking at number 12 on UK Singles Chart. Although it failed to crack the UK top 10, the song became perhaps the band's biggest radio hit in Britain. It was also the band's only hit in certain European