Mike Moran

Mike Moran
Background Information
Origin	Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Birth date	4 March 1948
Death date	N/A
Age	76
Eurovision Song Contest
Country	United Kingdom
Year	1977
Song	Rock Bottom (with Lynsey de Paul)
Semi Position	--
Semi Points	--
Final Position	2nd
Final Points	121

Mike Moran is an English music producer who represented the United Kingdom together with Lynsey de Paul in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 in London, performing the song Rock Bottom, which finished in second place.

De Paul and Moran went on to write a number of songs such as "Let Your Body Go Downtown", a 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.

His band 5TA appeared on Channel 4's The Tube around 1986.

For many years, Moran was the musical director for the UK ITV children's music show, Get It Together, performing on the show each week, accompanying the various studio guests and playing the show's theme music. He had another attempt at writing a UK Eurovision entry in 1990, when he wrote "That Old Feeling Again" for Stephen Lee Garden, which placed fifth out of the eight songs in the competition.

Other memorable songs co-written by Moran are "Snot Rap" (Kenny Everett) as well as "No Mean City", the theme to the crime drama Taggart, sung by Maggie Bell; "It's Alright", the theme to the crime drama New Tricks, sung by Dennis Waterman; and the music for the UK game shows Chain Letters, Lucky Ladders and The Krypton Factor. He was co-producer, arranger, keyboards performer and co-author of all the tracks on "Barcelona" by Freddie Mercury.

He has worked with various members of Queen, Ozzy Osbourne, Nicko McBrain and George Harrison. He did live recording production and mixing with David Bowie in 1973 for Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture; and also produced various hits for Bowie in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Latterly, Moran has worked extensively as a record producer. He produced The Queen Album (1988), Piaf (1994) and Essential Musicals (2006) for Elaine Paige. He appeared in Dragon's Den series 7 episode 3 as the musical director of a Dusty Springfield musical.