Paul Carrack

Known for ActingBorn 1951-04-22 (age 75)Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK

Paul Melvyn Carrack (born 22 April 1951) is an English singer, musician, songwriter and composer who has recorded as both a solo artist and as a member of several popular bands. The BBC dubbed Carrack "The Man with the Golden Voice", while Record Collector remarked: "If vocal talent equalled financial success, Paul Carrack would be a bigger name than legends such as Phil Collins or Elton John." Carrack rose to prominence in the mid-1970s as the frontman and principal songwriter of rock band Ace, and gained further recognition for his work as a solo artist and for his tenures as a member of Squeeze and Roger Waters' backing band, the Bleeding Heart Band, intermittently handling lead vocals on Squeeze and Waters recordings. From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, he enjoyed considerable success as the co-lead vocalist (with Paul Young) and a songwriter for Mike + The Mechanics; following Young's death in 2000, Carrack served as the band's sole lead vocalist until his departure in 2004. Carrack sang some of his affiliated bands' best-known hits, including Ace's "How Long" (1975); Squeeze's "Tempted" (1981); and Mike + The Mechanics' "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)" (1985), "The Living Years" (1988) and "Over My Shoulder" (1995). He also performed lead vocals on tracks from the Roger Waters albums Radio K.A.O.S. (1987) and The Wall – Live in Berlin (1990). He has released nineteen solo albums and achieved a major hit of his own with "Don't Shed a Tear" (1988). Carrack's songs have been recorded by artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Eagles, Diana Ross, Tom Jones, Michael McDonald and Jools Holland, and he has served as a session and/or touring musician for Roxy Music, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, B.B. King, the Pretenders, the Smiths and Madness.Read more

Movies & web series

Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019

The Strat Pack: Live in Concert

Paul Carrack In Concert

Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin

Eric Clapton - Planes, Trains and Eric

Geld oder Liebe

Eric Clapton: Slowhand at 70 - Live at The Royal Albert Hall

Mike + the Mechanics + Paul Carrack - Live at Shepherds Bush London

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

A Concert by the Lake

Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013

ZDF-Fernsehgarten

SWR Big Band - 70 Jahre und kein bisschen leise

Eric Clapton Live At Baloise Session

Eric Clapton - Live on Basel

Paul Carrack Live In 3D

Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 3

Mike and the Mechanics - Video Collection

Band Du Lac: A Concert By The Lake

Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band: Tour 2003

Mike + the Mechanics | Live at the House of Blues 1995