Mick started his musical career in London at the age of 14 when his father bought him his first guitar. He got together with friends to form a ‘skiffle’ group emulating one of his early idols Lonnie Donegan. They called themselves the Vampires and soon had a small but loyal following made up from school friends and neighbours. They entered, and won, the local heat of a Carol Levis talent contest, which alas, apart from local adulation, didn’t bring instant fame and wealth.

Mick moved from the acoustic sounds of skiffle to the electric sound of rock and roll when he joined an already established group called the Lee Sabre Combo, who incidentally had Ron Ryan as the lead singer. By this time he had also stopped playing acoustic guitar and had exchanged it for an electric bass guitar. He stayed with the band for a number of years working in and around London and the Home Counties playing at a number of American Air Force.

He had always liked country music, with a record collection consisting of artists such as Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jim Reeves and Lee Hazlewood, but it was here at the American bases that he began to fully appreciate how diverse and exciting it could be. It was around about this period of time that he began to sing with the group, starting with a couple of Johnny cash songs. Soon the lure of singing and playing bass guitar in a pure country band proved too great and he moved on to form ‘Country Express’ with Ron Ryan and other colleagues from the early skiffle days. Recordings were soon on the agenda and ‘Country Express’ produced a single and an album on the now defunct Lucky Record label. A recording contemporary at the time was Bryan Chalker who enlisted the help of the band on a couple of his singles.

After a number of years working the ever growing country music circuit he decided it was time to move on yet again. This move came in the guise of a cabaret band called ‘Springfield Revival’ an offshoot of the Dusty Springfield band ‘The Springfields.’ Mick became their musical director and travelled the country with them meeting an array of popular artists of the day such as Gary Glitter and Paul McCartney. Still in the back of his mind was the desire to be a front man where he would have the ability to make all his own decisions as to what songs to sing and to write.

In the early seventies this became a reality and he at last embarked on his long awaited solo career working the local clubs and venues in the Midlands where he had recently moved to. He recorded his first solo album in 1975 at Mid Wales Sound Studio appropriately called ‘Somebody Nobody Knows’. Soon he came to the notice of the Keri Organisation who approached him with an offer to sole represent him and produce a further couple of albums. Two further albums were released ‘Words and Music’ and ‘Unlucky Me’ After a number of years working the cabaret circuit with such well known acts as Lenny Henry, The Rocking Berries, Dollar, Syd Lawrence, Chas and Dave, Karl Denver Ray Allen and Lord Charles Mick decided to pursue his first love yet again - country music. This proved to be a wise move as from 1977 he had landed a job as a country music presenter at BBC Radio Leicester (see radio page).

A number of cassette recordings followed with Mick writing a large portion of original songs all of which became firm favourites in his stage act.

He continued working as a solo country singer right through to the birth of his first grand-daughter in 1990 when he decided to take time out and concentrate mainly on his radio career.