About Mick MacNeil
Michael Joseph MacNeil is a Scottish songwriter and keyboardist. He is best known as a former member of the group Simple Minds. MacNeil released a solo album called People, Places, Things on his own record label, Mix Records, in 1997. During the early years of Simple Minds (the first four albums, between 1978 and 1982), MacNeil used a Farfisa organ and a "tiny wee Korg, two oscillators on it. At this point, he had only recently discovered pop music and was unaware of contemporary new wave bands Magazine and Ultravox, to which his keyboard playing would be compared.
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