Biography

He made another attempt to represent the UK in 1985 with his own entry 'So Do I' with Fiona Kennedy, however the song finished joint last in the national final.

He also achieved No. 1 chart success in Germany with the single Du Kannst Nicht Immer Siebszehn ("You can't always be seventeen") which he co-wrote with Ralph Siegel, and which was sung by Chris Roberts.

He was educated at All Saints School and began singing at a young age - touring the local working men's clubs alongside his brother.

He also wrote all the original songs used in Paul Dunn's 2019 touring adaptation of Catherine Cookson's "The Cinder Path", produced by Leah Bell.

Mike joined the Rabin Band for a short period before moving in to the session world as a session singer. It was here that he met Mike Sammes and became involved as a backing singer on many of the big hit records of the sixties and seventies with: The Beatles, Tom Jones, Engleburt Humperdinck Andy Williams, Barbara Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Howard Keel, Henry Mancini and many other famous artists.