- He made another attempt to represent the UK in 1985 with his own entry 'So Do I' with Fiona Kennedy, however the song finished joint last in the national final.
- He also achieved No. 1 chart success in Germany with the single Du Kannst Nicht Immer Siebszehn ("You can't always be seventeen") which he co-wrote with Ralph Siegel, and which was sung by Chris Roberts.
- He was educated at All Saints School and began singing at a young age - touring the local working men's clubs alongside his brother.
- He also wrote all the original songs used in Paul Dunn's 2019 touring adaptation of Catherine Cookson's "The Cinder Path", produced by Leah Bell.
- Mike joined the Rabin Band for a short period before moving in to the session world as a session singer. It was here that he met Mike Sammes and became involved as a backing singer on many of the big hit records of the sixties and seventies with: The Beatles, Tom Jones, Engleburt Humperdinck Andy Williams, Barbara Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Howard Keel, Henry Mancini and many other famous artists.
- During the sixties he was asked to understudy Frank Sinatra on a Tony Hatch produced record, which was never released commercially.
- After auditioning for the BBC Mike got his first break as a solo artist with the BBC in a radio series called "Sing It Again".
- Having worked as a backing vocalist, Mike recorded his first single for Embassy in 1962 alongside Ray Pilgrim, and recorded a further 28 singles on the Embassy label in this period.
- He is an English singer, songwriter and record producer.
- Mike composed the music to the children's television show Charlie Chalk, which was produced by Woodland Animation and featured the voice of Michael Williams. The theme music to the show, which was penned by Redway was performed by his close friend Ken Barrie, whom he had met at Embassy in the early sixties.
- Mike left the session world to further his solo career as a singer-song writer. Many people will recall his records being played by Terry Wogan, Jimmy Young, Gloria Hunniford, Steve Race and other BBC radio presenters.
- In 1967 Mike was approached by Burt Bacharach to perform the vocal on the song Have No Fear, James Bond is Here - which was used for the credit-roll of the 1967 spoof film Casino Royale.
- Redway was the son of a pub landlord and a baker.
- In 2016 he wrote the music for the musical comedy Seriously Dead. For its second year of touring the show was renamed Right Place Wrong Time.
- In 2019 Mike was the driving force behind the launch of a website offering ready- made jingles to the advertising, TV and Media markets called Redrock Production Music.
- In 1973 Mike formed his own production company Redrock Music Ltd, known for producing radio advertisements and jingles.
- In the late sixties Mike appeared in a very successful television series called "One More Time".
- He produced Terry Wogan's hit The Floral Dance, which reached No. 21 in April 1978.
- He began his career in the late 1950s as a backing vocalist for Embassy Records.
- Mike has also competed to represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest on two occasions. In 1975 he co-penned the song The House Runs On Sunshine with Brian Bennett for The Shadows. At the Song For Europe final held on 15 February the song finished third.
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