![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the favourite musical son of Sheffield, England wrote and sang the tune “How Long?” for Ace in 1975 in his early 20s, Paul Carrack has had hit stints with the bands Squeeze, a two-decade run with the aforementioned Mike + the Mechanics, Roxy Music, Nick Lowe, and more. The tune in question is likely one of the largest in his career – the four-time Grammy nominated Mike and the Mechanics “The Living Years” - but the importance is Carrack has been involved in any number of huge songs where this could be a problem. “I realized you had to have your own catalogue.” “I realized working on a hits collection a few years back (The Story So Far) – that I’d a had a hand, or helped co-write a few really big tunes, but had no say in them – still had to license them for my own collections,” tells Carrack to the Mirror. “The thing was my own songs, my own catalogue,” he says. The importance of a writer owning their own work is something Paul Carrack has been working on throughout his almost 50 year career in rock and roll – but it has been his focus for the last 20 years almost exclusively. ![]()
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