We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Singer and comedian                          

Selected Works:

Albums:

A Lancashire Lad - 1972
There Was This Bloke - 1974 with Tony Capstick, Derek Brimstone and Bill Barclay
Mrs 'Ardin's Kid - 1975 – UK No.24
The Rochdale Cowboy Rides Again - 1975
One Man Show - 1976 – UK No.19
Old Four Eyes is Back - 1977 – UK No.31
Captain Paralytic & The Brown Ale Cowboys - 1978 – UK No.60
On The Touchline - 1979
Komic Kutz - 1979
Red Specs Album - 1981
Take Your Fingers Off It - 1982
Rooted! - 1983
Flat Dogs and Shaky Pudden - 1983
Bomber's Moon - 1984
Roll Over Cecil Sharpe - 1985
Foo Foo Shufflewick & Her Exotic Banana - 1986
The Best of Mike Harding - 1986
Plutonium Alley - 1989
God's Own Drunk - 1989
Footloose in the Himalaya - 1990
Chinese Takeaway Blues - 1992
The Bubbly Snot Monster - 1994
Classic Tracks - 1995

Singles:

Rochdale Cowboy / Strangeways Hotel - 1975
My Brother Sylveste / Uncle Joe's Mint Balls - 1976
Talking Blackpool Blues / Bogey Man - 1976
Guilty, But Insane - EP: includes Born Bad / Jimmy Spoons / Manuel - 1977
Christmas 1914 / P.S. God - 1977
Disco Vampire / For Carlo - 1977

Other Recordings:

Ale is Physick for Me / Ten Per Cent on Deep Lancashire - 1968
Sammy Shuttleworth on Owdham Edge - 1970
Ale is Physick for Me / Ten Per Cent / Sammy Shuttleworth on Deep Lancashire - 1997
Ale is Physick for Me on And We'll All Have Tea - 2000

Bibliography:

Napoleon's Retreat From Wigan - 1976
The Unluckiest Man in the World - 1979
The Singing Street - 1979
The Witch That Nicked Christmas - 1979
Folk Songs of Lancashire - 1980
Fur Coat and No Knickers - play - 1980
Barnaby Barnaby Boy Wonder - 1980
The 14 lb Budgie - 1980
Up The Boo Aye Shooting Pookakis - 1980
The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac - 1981
One Night Stand - play - 1981
Hell Bent - play - 1981
Dead Ernest - play - 1982
Not With A Bang - play - 1983
Killer Budgies - 1983
When The Martians Land in Huddersfield - 1984
You Can See The Angel's Bum, Miss Worswick - 1985
Rambling On - 1986
Walking The Dales - 1986
Cooking One's Corgi - 1988
Bomber's Moon - 1988
Footloose in the Himalaya - 1989
Last Tango in Whitby - play - 1990
A Free Man on Sunday - play - 1992
Daddy Edgar's Pools - 1992
Walking the Peak and Pennine - 1992
Tales from the Towpath - 1992
The Virgin of the Discos - 1993
Hypnotising the Cat - 1995
Buns For The Elephants - 1995
Footloose in the West of Ireland - 1996
Crystal Set Dreams - 1997
Comfort and Joy - play - 1997
A Little Book of the Green Man - 1998
A Little Book of Gargoyles - 1998
A Little Book of Stained Glass - 1998
A Little Book of Devils and Demons - 1998
A Little Book of Misericords - 1998
Yorkshire Transvestite Found Dead On Everest - 2005
A Little Book of Angels - 2008
A Little Book of Tombs and Monuments - 2008
A Little Book of Miracles and Marvels - 2008

Composed  Music Scores:

DangerMouse
Count Duckula, sang the main and end titles with Doreen Edwards
The Reluctant Dragon
The Fool of the World 
Flying Ship for Cosgrove Hall.                          

Mother 
Father Louis Arthur Harding                          

Patron of the Wensleydale Railway, a group set up to re-open the once mainly derelict line between Northallerton and Garsdale in Yorkshire.