Mike Howlett

During the 70's Mike Howlett played bass and wrote with esoteric space-funk group Gong, who were only the second signing to the nascent Virgin Records.  After leaving Gong Mike put together his own group, Strontium-90, with musicians Sting, Andy Summers and Stuart Copeland, who went on to enormous success as The Police. In 1997 the recordings of this group were released on Sting’s own record label Pangaea.

Mike began producing records in 1977 and had a string of Top 10 UK Hits including: Martha and the Muffins  ‘Echo Beach’;  OMD -  ‘Enola Gay’, ‘Souvenir’ and  ‘Messages’; Blancmange -  ‘Living on the Ceiling’; A Flock of Seagulls - ‘I Ran’ (US Top Ten), ‘Wishing (If I Had a Photograph...)’ and ‘DNA’ (Grammy award winner); China Crisis -  ‘Wishful Thinking’; and other internationally top-selling albums by: Joan Armatrading, Berlin (U.S. Platinum), The Alarm (US Gold), Gang of Four, Julien Clerc (France Platinum), La Union (Spain Platinum), Fischer Z Germany Platinum), Gowan (Canada Gold).  These albums each achieved sales in excess of 500,000.

Mike is currently Chairman of the Music Producer’s Guild and lectures at the University of Glamorgan and Thames Valley University.

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