History
His first music experience came with playing in a band called Joy, featuring a young Michael Bolton. Later Michaels played with artists such as The Cherry Vanilla Band, Sparks, Ellen Foley, The Hunter/Ronson Band, Dan Hartman, John Mellencamp, Marianne Faithfull and Ronnie Wood.
In 1979, Jake Hooker worked with Hilly Michaels to capture a million dollar deal with Warner Bros. Records and a MTV video to promote Calling All Girls in 1980 with Roy Thomas Baker as the producer. He was in a relationship with Marianne Faithfull during the mid-1980s when they lived together in NYC, from where in 1985 Faithfull entered the Hazelden Foundation to end her heroin addiction.
Michaels' songs can be heard in the movies Caddyshack and Die Laughing. In the movie Rollercoaster he appeared with Sparks performing the songs Big Boy and Fill'er Up.
He has since worked as producer and manager of marketing and development. He currently resides in Connecticut and continues to record.
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