Paul Carrack at The Colston Hall in Bristol on Thursday 22 February 2018
Paul Carrack will perform at The Colston Hall in Bristol on Thursday 22 February 2018.
Dubbed by the BBC as ‘The Man with the Golden Voice’, Paul Carrack returns to the road with his band. The venerated singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist enjoyed stints as the frontman of premier bands Ace, Squeeze and Mike & The Mechanics, and as a soulful solo musician boasts a back catalogue of legendary proportions. A key figure in British pop history, his songs have been performed by some of the biggest names in music including The Eagles, Diana Ross and Tom Jones. With several decades of high calibre performance under his belt, he remains a force to be reckoned with on the live music scene.
Now hailed as “The Man with the Golden Voice” and a “national treasure” by the BBC, Paul Carrack first put his talent in front of the wider British public as the frontman of Ace. After a spell as a studio member of Roxy Music, his solo career took its bow in 1980. Alongside it, and the brief spell in Squeeze that yielded ‘Tempted,’ he became the vocalist-keyboard player of choice for everyone from the Pretenders to the Smiths.
His tenure with Mike & the Mechanics contained classic lead vocals on such major hits as ‘The Living Years’ and ‘Over My Shoulder,’ before setting up Carrack-UK and producing a string of assured albums, containing such landmark songs as ‘Satisfy My Soul,’ ‘I Live On A Battlefield’ and ‘Eyes Of Blue.’ He wrote for the Eagles, who made anthems of ‘Love Will Keep Us Alive’ and ‘I Don’t Want To Hear Any More,’ and has collaborated with legends from Roger Waters to Ringo Starr to B.B. King.
Tickets are £34.94 to £42.46 including booking fees.