Mike Leander
Biography
Michael George Farr (30 June 1941 – 18 April 1996), known professionally as Mike Leander, was a British arranger, songwriter and record producer. He worked variously with Cliff Richard, the Beatles, David McWilliams ("Days of Pearly Spencer"), Gary Glitter, the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Andrew Loog Oldham, Joe Cocker, Billy Fury, Marc Bolan, Small Faces, Van Morrison, Alan Price, Peter Frampton, Keith Richards, Shirley Bassey, Lulu, Jimmy Page, Roy Orbison, Ben E. King, the Drifters, and Gene Pitney. Leander also wrote the score for the films Privilege (1967) and Run a Crooked Mile (1969).
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1967
(What's The Story) Morning Glory?
1995
Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass)
1966
Songs About Jane
2002
Easter
1978
December's Children (And Everybody's)
1965
Travelogue
1980
Joan Jett
1980
The Beatles
2009
The Book Of Taliesyn
1968
The Rolling Stones In Mono
2016
Generation X
1978
Sounds Like...Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1967
Knebworth 1996
2021
Extinction Level Event - The Final World Front
1998
Singles Collection✱ The London Years
1989
Holiday '80
1980
Doctorin' The Tardis
1988
Glorious Results Of A Misspent Youth
1984
The World Of Marianne Faithfull
1969
The Best Of Peter And Gordon
1966
Down By The River Thames
2022
Greatest Hits
2019
Bad Reputation (Music From The Original Motion Picture)
2018
Credited work
5,934 releases · 1,042 albums · active 1962–2026
- Performance · 6,321
- Production · 1,841
- Other credits · 985
- Engineering · 2
Studios: Record Plant, N.Y.C. · House Of Music, West Orange, NJ · Regent Sound Studios · Rockfield Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Gary Glitter
- Marianne Faithfull
- Cliff Richard
- Unknown Artist
- The Glitter Band
- Paul Jones
- David McWilliams