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Live is a 1974 album by British band Mott the Hoople recorded during their debut US performance at the Uris Theater (Gershwin) on Broadway in Manhattan, New York City, United States, with Queen as the opening act. A remastered and expanded 30th Anniversary Edition was released by Sony BMG on the Columbia label (516051). The release of the album ...
In 1996, K-tel released a CD called The Best of Mott the Hoople purporting to be re-recordings of the band's hits and new songs by Hunter and Ronson. In actuality, the recording was by Danny McCulloch , former bass player with Eric Burdon and the New Animals and Gerry Chapman, usually going under the band name of The Trybe.
The original Mott the Hoople release had to be changed lyrically in order that it might be played on UK radio and television. The line in the second verse: "Wendy's stealing clothes from Marks and Sparks" was a reference to UK retailer Marks & Spencer, also known by that colloquialism. As such, air play of the song in its original form would ...
The loss of Ralphs's guitar is also mentioned in the lyrics of the single's B-side, "Ballad of Mott the Hoople (26th March 1972, Zürich)". Name-checking most of the band's then members, the B-side's lyrics stated " Buffin lost his child-like dreams" / And " Mick lost his guitar / And Verden grew a line or two / And Overend 's just a rock 'n ...
All the Young Dudes is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Mott the Hoople, released in 1972.It was their initial album for the CBS Records label (Columbia Records in the United States and Canada), after three years with Island Records in the UK and Atlantic Records in the United States and Canada.
[7] Record World called it Mott the Hoople's "biggest rocker since their label debut" and said that the "Easter-themed love epistle should sha-la-la itself to monumental status." [ 8 ] In 1986, the song was used as a background song on the 1974 edition of the BBC TV series The Rock 'n' Roll Years , for the news clips relating to the two general ...
The group then added singer Ian Hunter, became Mott the Hoople, [5] and, taking the advice of manager Guy Stevens, Pete Watts adopted the stage name Overend Watts. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Watts played bass in Mott the Hoople's seven albums released between 1969 and 1974, and sang his own composition " Born Late '58 " included in the band's seventh album ...
The Dispatch critic Dink Lorance called "Ready for Love"/"After Lights" his favorite track on the album. [4] Los Angeles Times critic Richard Cromelin described "Ready to Love" as "a sledgehammer rocker that tends to grow on you." [5] Pitchfork critic Joe Tangari said that Mott the Hoople's version "pales in comparison" to the Bad Company ...