Performance · Production
Hilly Michaels
New Haven, United States
Hilly Michaels is credited on 86 releases across 35 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1976–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
86
Pressings credited
35
Albums
6
Decades active
25
In collections
Biography
Michael Hillman (July 3, 1948 – November 15, 2025), known professionally as Hilly Michaels, was an American musician who was best known for playing drums with Sparks in the 1970s. Then a New York-based session drummer, he performed on Sparks' 1976 album Big Beat, which was produced by Rupert Holmes. Michaels was the only session musician to go on the North American tour with Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks. Michaels released two solo albums in the early 1980s, Calling All Girls (1980) and Lumia (1981).
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Credited work
86 releases · 35 albums · active 1976–2025
- Performance · 86
- Production · 29
- Other credits · 7
Studios: Werner Studios · Puk Recording Studios · Svinkløv Badehotel · Trod Nossel Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Sparks
- Dan Hartman
- Van Duren
- Ellen Foley
- Kliché
- ●H●U●G●
- Ian Hunter
- Duane Loken
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