Apocalyptic 1986 #1 Hit is SO EERIE…It Was BANNED by RADIO for DANGEROUS Lyrics? | Professor of Rock

Coming up… In 1985 legendary band Genesis took some time off when their lead singer Phil Collins was working on his solo album No Jacket Required. So the band's other prolific songwriter and guitarist Mike Rutherford started his own band… He called it Mike and the Mechanics. They recruited two different singers Paul Young and Paul Carrack and out of nowhere they had a hit album that contained 3 big hits: All I Need is a Miracle, Taken In, and today’s song Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground) which went to #1. This massive hit was renamed when it was chosen to be in a 1986 movie called Choke Canyon… This song is so eerie and satisfyingly creepy it’s found new life time and again since the 80s. It’s such a freaking cool song. Years later it was banned from radio during the gulf war for truly dumb reasons. TODAY WE HAVE THE story from an interview I did with its Singer… One of the greatest singers ever and a man who’s had hits with many different bands including his own solo stuff. The Story of this Eerie Apocalyptic #1 rock hit from 1986 hit that predicted what’s happening right now is next.

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I’m excited to bring you another episode from our series Revelations, where featured artists go deep on their greatest songs and albums. Methodical interviews on these songs with the artists you won’t find anywhere else. In 1983 Genesis broke through the pop charts with their 12 studio album the self-titled Genesis. The album spawned 3 hits including their biggest yet… That’s all. That’s All peaked at #6 at the start of 1984. And then Phil Collins took a break to record his third solo album, No Jacket Required which dropped in 1985 and became his biggest record ever seeking over 10 million copies and hitting #1 with several #1 singles. Mike Rutherford, the other prolific songwriter in the band who wrote or cowrite many of their hits including Follow You Follow Me, Turn It On Again, and later Land of Confusion, and Throwing it All Away decided to form another band called Mike and the Mechanics. He recruited two lead singers: Paul Young from Sad Cafe… Not this Paul young.

and the very underrated Paul Carrack one of my favorite singers ever who had had a hit 2 big hits with 2 other bands. How Long with Ace and Tempted with Squeeze. Mike Rutherford and his songwriting partner B. A. Robertson penned quite a few tracks together including today’s featured song Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)” sung by Carrack. It would become the band's first single, peaking at number 6 on 8 March 1986 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went all the way to #1, and number 1 on the rock charts for 5 weeks. It ALSO reached #21 in the band's native United Kingdom.