Mike Harrison
Listen to, buy or share
Buy
7digital
iTunes
Amazon
eBay
-
4,011
scrobbles
-
812 listeners
Tags
Biography
Born in Carlisle in 1942, at 14 Harrison heard the future in Elvis Presley’s Don’t Be Cruel floating over the pirate radio waves and found his own voice and consuming passions somewhere between Ray Charles and Etta James. In 1963, he and his mates, including future Humble Pie bassist Greg Ridley, formed The VIPs, tasted local success and tried their luck in Swinging London.
Chris Blackwell signed The VIPs as one of the first bands on his fledgling Island label, they had a chart topping single in Europe - I Wanna Be Free – before morphing into the prog rock Art with a couple of personnel changes.
American Gary Wright, later to have the massive 1976 US Number 1 Dream Weaver, joined and the band again changed into the celebrated, hard rock Spooky Tooth.
Acclaimed debut 1968 album It’s All About followed and a year later Spooky Two confirmed the band’s reputation and commercial popularity, if only in the USA and Europe.
Legends everywhere else, Spooky Tooth remained cult heroes in the UK, feted by their peers and university students, known as one of the great live bands of the day in the right circles.
Despite sold out tours of America, sales into the hundreds of thousands, Harrison quit to pay the mortgage in 1976.
Chris Blackwell signed The VIPs as one of the first bands on his fledgling Island label, they had a chart topping single in Europe - I Wanna Be Free – before morphing into the prog rock Art with a couple of personnel changes.
American Gary Wright, later to have the massive 1976 US Number 1 Dream Weaver, joined and the band again changed into the celebrated, hard rock Spooky Tooth.
Acclaimed debut 1968 album It’s All About followed and a year later Spooky Two confirmed the band’s reputation and commercial popularity, if only in the USA and Europe.
Legends everywhere else, Spooky Tooth remained cult heroes in the UK, feted by their peers and university students, known as one of the great live bands of the day in the right circles.
Despite sold out tours of America, sales into the hundreds of thousands, Harrison quit to pay the mortgage in 1976.
Featured tracks
-
Let's Go Get Stoned
3:04 -
I've Got Dreams To Remember
4:09 -
Drown In My Own Tears
3:20 -
The Rock
3:43 -
Your Good Thing Is About To End
5:04 -
Sinners Prayer
4:16
Featured tracks
Top Albums
-
Late Starter
423 listeners14 tracks
-
Smokestack Lightning
212 listeners6 tracks
Released:
-
Mike Harrison
73 listeners8 tracks
Released:
-
The Cloud Of Unknowing
85 listeners13 tracks
Released:
Listening Trend
812listeners all time
4,011scrobbles all time
Recent listeners trend:
Start scrobbling and track your listening history
Last.fm users scrobble the music they play in iTunes, Spotify, Rdio and over 200 other music players.
Create a Last.fm profileShoutbox
Leave a comment.
Log in to Last.fm or sign up.
-
futurolvidado
Great voice!!
-
sandkiller
Out of this world...
Top Listeners
-
petecities
Top Listener -
168dave
Top Listener -
lawrencefelt
Top Listener
Email Newsletter
Get exclusive tour, release & promotion updates on Mike Harrison from Universal Music.
