Name people whose career arcs resemble that of Paul Carrack

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Martha Wash?

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I heard a song in a store about...2 months ago. I didn't know the title of it, but I knew it was Paul Carrack. I vaguely remembered the song, but I found it completely and utterly IRRITATING. Even though I had heard it before, I now found it strangely, unbelievably IRRITATING, this song. More than any other piece of music I'd heard in a store until that moment, aside from maybe Whitney Houston's "I will always love you..."

So then I noticed this thread came up, and I was determined to find out what awful, awful song that really was that I heard that day: give it a name, right? And I have succeeded. It is Mike & The Mechanics "The Living Years" and I want to invite you all to the bonfire that is going to take place, we are going to burn every single copy of this song we can find. It's going to be a blast. Join me at the end of October.

The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 27 May 2005 04:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Ooh, I saw Gail Ann Dorsey live about fifteen years ago. She was a bit lame, but yes, her name crops up all over the place.

ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 27 May 2005 05:45 (eighteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

On the masterful How Long, etc.

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 July 2018 01:19 (five years ago) link

Huh, apparently Carrack also played keys on The Smiths debut album. That's kinda like learning that Phil Collins played drums on Another Green World.

enochroot, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link

Is Jim Peterik one of these? How about Jim Messina?

Lee626, Thursday, 12 July 2018 07:39 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

Carrack's on Michael Shelley's show right now, https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/93195 , and said that "How Long" was more or less his first lead vocal. Just backing vocals here and there prior to that. Amazing.

herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Saturday, 16 May 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link


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