The tune in question is likely one of the largest in his career – the four-time Grammy nominated Mike and the Mechanics “The Living Years” - but the importance is Carrack has been involved in any number of huge songs where this could be a problem. “I realized you had to have your own catalogue.” “I realized working on a hits collection a few years back (The Story So Far) – that I’d a had a hand, or helped co-write a few really big tunes, but had no say in them – still had to license them for my own collections,” tells Carrack to the Mirror. “The thing was my own songs, my own catalogue,” he says. The importance of a writer owning their own work is something Paul Carrack has been working on throughout his almost 50 year career in rock and roll – but it has been his focus for the last 20 years almost exclusively.
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