The Living Years

Song

The Living Years

Mike & The Mechanics

Complete airplay overview for The Living Years on Dutch radio stations. See exactly which stations play this song, track chart positions over time, and view detailed broadcast history. Explore play count statistics per station and discover how this song performs across the Dutch radio landscape.

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Release Date

Duration

1988 single by Mike + The Mechanics

Released

1988-12-27

Genres

soft rock

Performers

Mike and the Mechanics

Record Labels

Atlantic Records, Warner Music Group

"The Living Years" is a song written by BA Robertson and Mike Rutherford, and recorded by Rutherford's rock band Mike + The Mechanics. It was released in December 1988 in the United Kingdom and in the United States as the second single from their album Living Years. The ballad was a worldwide chart hit, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 on 25 March 1989, the band's only number one and last top ten hit on that chart, and reaching number-one in Australia, Canada and Ireland and number 2 in the UK. It spent four weeks at number-one on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Paul Carrack sings lead vocals on the track.

Time range1 week

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