John Miles was born as John Errington in 1949 in Jarrow in the UK. John really came to prominence when in 1975 he had his first UK single hit called Highfly. The single was not really to have been released by John needed something urgently to sing for a TV show soHighfly was available. Good choice.
But his huge hit came in 1976 with groundbreaking song Music reaching No. 3 in the charts.John Miles wrote this in Leeds when he had some time to kill and his
song writing partner at the time Bob Marshall wasn't around. He claims
it only took him half an hour to write. In the U.S. the song was dramatically cut down on length.
Johns friend Alan Parson was the producer on this single of course Alan was the same Alan as from the Alan Parsons Project.
Amazingly, after such a classic he only had one more single in the 1970s with Slow Down from his album Stranger In The City. Slow Down was a little bit disco.
