Question: who wrote the song in the living years
Answer: `` The Living Years '' Single by Mike + The Mechanics from the album Living Years B - side `` Too Many Friends '' Released 27 December 1988 Format Cassette Single , 7 '' Recorded Genre Pop , Ballad Length 5 : 32 Label Atlantic , WEA Songwriter ( s ) Mike Rutherford , B.A. Robertson Producer ( s ) Christopher Neil , Mike Rutherford Mike + The Mechanics singles chronology `` Nobody 's Perfect '' ( 1988 ) `` The Living Years '' ( 1988 ) `` Seeing Is Believing '' ( 1989 ) `` Nobody 's Perfect '' ( 1988 ) `` The Living Years '' ( 1988 ) `` Seeing Is Believing '' ( 1989 )