Mike Rutherford net worth
Mike Rutherford’s net worth: Mike Rutherford is a British musician with a net worth of US$60 million. Mike Rutherford is a founding member of the Genesis band and one of only two consistent members of the band. He plays bass guitar and provides background harmony for the band.
He was born on October 2, 1950 in Guildford, England. In addition to working for Genesis for many years, Rutherford also released two solo albums in the early 1980s. In 1985, he formed the very successful derivative combination Mike + The Mechanics, which later became the top of the rankings and an important live draw. The success of the band earned Rutherford the Ivor Novello Award for his 1988 single The Living Years, which was co-written by Rutherford and BA Robertson. In the mid-1980s, Genesis went on a world tour to support the album Invisible Touch. The scale of the tour is huge-111 shows, 59 cities and 16 countries in front of 3 million fans. Around the end of Genesis’s large-scale tour, Rolling Stone magazine named the band the best band of the year in their annual reader vote. Rutherford received his first guitar at the age of 8, and played in his first band The Chesters at the age of 9. At the age of 13, he joined the Anon band and formed a songwriting alliance with his guitarist Anthony Phillips. Later he started Genesis at the age of 15. Rutherford and his wife Angie live in Surrey, England. The couple married on November 13, 1976 and have three children. He wrote the book “The Living Years: The First Memoir of Genesis” in 2014.
