 In 1980 Middleton was involved with the arrangements on and played keyboards for Kate Bush's "Never For Ever", which had album and single success.In the 1980s he was also involved with Chris Rea playing on "Shamrock diaries"," On the Beach", "New Light Through Old Windows", " The Road to Hell", "Auberge" , "God's great banana skin", "Espresso logic", "La passione", and "King of the Beach".He produced Dick Morrissey's "Souliloquy" (1988) on which he played keyboards.