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‘I wrote it while bored on a health farm’: how Mike and the Mechanics made All I Need Is a Miracle

‘The demo had my singing on it. When I played it to the band, the look on their faces said, “We’re in trouble, boys”’

Mike likes to have a cassette rolling all the time and put everything down there: not fully formed ideas, just little sketches, odds and sods. But I’d just done nine months in the studio with another artist and I was knackered and my management had sent me away to a health farm in rural Sussex to rest up. The only time I’ve ever stood up in the control room and said to everybody, “This is a massive hit, trust me” was when we finished the mix on The Living Years, but we knew Miracle was a contender.

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