Mike Moran

Mike Moran - keyboardist, songwriter, film and TV composer, producer

Person from United Kingdom

Genres: production music, funk, library music, Fusion, Library, synth

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About Mike Moran

Mike Moran is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. Moran studied at the Royal College of Music in London prior to becoming a session musician and a composer and arranger; his work in the latter field includes scoring music for such Handmade Films productions as Time Bandits (1981), The Missionary (1982), and Water (1985). He also played with the Ian Gillan Band. "Rock Bottom", which he wrote in partnership with Lynsey de Paul, was the UK entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977, and put him in the spotlight for the first time. Although leading early on in the voting, the song eventually came second in the contest. It went on to become a Top 20 hit in many European countries including France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. De Paul and Moran went on to write a number of songs such as "Let Your Body Go Downtown", a UK Top 40 hit for the Martyn Ford Orchestra, and the follow-up "Going to a Disco", as well as "Without You" and "Now and Then", which appeared on the de Paul albums Tigers and Fireflies and Just a Little Time respectively. Moran has worked with Ozzy Osbourne, Nicko McBrain, George Harrison, and various members of Queen. He was co-producer, arranger, keyboards performer and co-author of all the tracks on the album Barcelona, the classical crossover collaboration between Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and opera singer Montserrat Caballé, released in 1988. He produced The Queen Album (1988), Piaf (1994), and Essential Musicals (2006) for Elaine Paige.

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