Mott The Hoople
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Review by Ben Edmonds, Rolling Stone, 10 June 1971
THE OUTCOME of the battle has yet to be conclusively determined, but my scorecard gives the race for "The Most Beloved Rock And Roll Band ...
Ian Hunter: Through the Glasses Darkly
Interview by Jonh Ingham, Creem, August 1975
THOSE SHADES! Oceans of mid-Atlantic green plastic bounded by translucent brown frames, black electrical tape wound in large balls around the tips to protect the ...
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Mott the Hoople: Hoopling Furiously
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 10 October 1969
GUY STEVENS is a man one should learn to trust. Every musical entity, record, group, or individual performer he's ever recommended me to, has turned ...
Mott The Hoople: Mott & The Name Game...
Interview by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 10 January 1970
SOME BANDS try harder. Like Mott The Hoople for instance. You try walking around with a name like that. ...
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 7 February 1970
A MASS of gently struggling sons of Coventry and outlying parts politely tripped over each other in the seatless main hall at Lanchester Festival on ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Circus, July 1970
LISTENING TO A "sounds from England" segment on a local FM station several months ago, there was, surprisingly, what sounded like an outtake from the ...
Free, Mott The Hoople: Fairfield Hall, Croydon
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 19 September 1970
FAIRFIELD Hall, Croydon, has seen some amazing scenes since it became South London's home of rock, but I doubt whether the old faithfuls at the ...
America's druggies scared Mott to death
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 27 March 1971
"IF PEOPLE want revolution then they should join an organised party en block instead of sitting on their backsides bemoaning their fate. It's absolutely no ...
Mott The Hoople: Wildlife (Island, ILPS 9144; £2.15)
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 10 April 1971
WILDLIFE CAN WIN MOTT WIDER FAME ...
Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, June 1971
MOTT THE HOOPLE are possibly the most exciting live band gigging in Britain today. A lot of that excitement emanates from the gymnastics, guitaristics, vocals, ...
Mott the Hoople, Head, Hands and Feet: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 17 July 1971
Mott: Britain's Grand Funk? ...
Mott the Hoople: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 17 July 1971
WHEN MOTT the Hoople took the dear old Albert Hall by storm on Thursday evening it was like a return to the halcyon days of ...
Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 7 August 1971
MOTT THE Hoople have never had a single or an album in the charts but they rank in the top five of Britain's best paid ...
Mott The Hoople: This Group Means T-R-O-U-B-L-E
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 11 September 1971
...or that's what some promoters think as Mott The Hoople face the same hang-ups that the Rolling Stones once experienced It's unfair, as any fan knows, ...
Mott The Hoople: Brain Capers (Island ILPS 9178, £2.15)
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 1 December 1971
MOTT: NEAR PERFECTION ...
Mott The Hoople: Mott — An Enigma
Profile and Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 4 December 1971
"THE PLOT thickens" as they used to say in all the best detective stories and the mystery as to why Mott the Hoople cannot break ...
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 4 December 1971
IF IAN HUNTER'S vision becomes a reality, then we are about to witness the first generation gap within the new rock culture. For Hunter states ...
Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, March 1972
IN THEIR FOURTH bid to make a lasting impression on the fickle folk who buy America's records, the usually-underrated, intriguingly-monickered Mott the Hoople have opted ...
Mott The Hoople: Civic Hall, Guildford
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 19 August 1972
"WE'VE LAID a lot of new stuff on you tonight and you've been really good," an obviously delighted Ian Hunter told his audience at Guildford ...
Mott The Hoople: All The Young Dudes (CBS 65184, £2.29)
Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 16 September 1972
At last Mott get it all on wax! ...
Mott The Hoople, Home: Top Rank, Brighton
Live Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 14 October 1972
THERE WAS a great sense or occasion when I saw Mott at Guildford just a few weeks back. They were laying all their new stuff ...
Mott The Hoople: Top Rank Suite, Birmingham, England
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Phonograph Record, November 1972
YOU'D THINK that a group with a top ten record in Britain ('All The Young Dudes'), associated with David Bowie to boot, would have no ...
Mott the Hoople: All the Young Dudes
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 7 December 1972
Taking what does not belong to you is a crucial part of the process of creating rock & roll: Exploiting proven riffs, phrases and hooks, ...
The Mott Mystique — Does it Mean Death or Glory?
Report and Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 9 December 1972
THE STORY of how David Bowie's hastily written 'All The Young Dudes' snatched Mott The Hoople from an untimely grave and provided the band with ...
The Complete History of Mott The Hoople
Profile by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, February 1973
IN THE WAKE of their first hit single, Mott The Hoople have begun to generate a publicity splash of sorts. It hasn't hurt that rock ...
Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 28 July 1973
A PERSPEX cut out face on the sleeve introduces us to Mott The Hoople Mark III, a group with a scarred history whose fifth and ...
Mott The Hoople, New York Dolls: Felt Forum, New York NY
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 9 August 1973
MOTT THE Hoople is a British all-rock band, 'All the Young Dudes' of course. But they're about to break really big, with 'Honaloochie Boogie' already ...
Despite the Complications, The Dolls Will Yet Be a Superstar
Profile by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 12 August 1973
EVEN THOUGH Mott the Hoople is among the most British of rock bands, and the New York Dolls is one of the most American, they ...
New York Dolls/Mott The Hoople: Felt Forum, NYC
Live Review by Michael Gross, New Musical Express, 25 August 1973
THE EVENING SIMPLY reeked of promise. Mott the Hoople, the Anglo glamour band of the moment, billed with New York's very own Dolls. ...
Mott The Hoople/New York Dolls: Felt Forum, NYC
Live Review by Michael Gross, Interview, September 1973
THE EVENING simply reeked of promise. Mott the Hoople, the Anglo glamour band of the moment, billed with New York's very own Dolls. ...
Mott The Hoople: The Ballad Of Mott
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 8 September 1973
IAN HUNTER is a great romantic, torn by doubts and secure only in the knowledge that the will to succeed usually bears fruit. ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 13 September 1973
WHAT AN ARRAY of weapons this band has: awesome firepower, an ever-increasing depth of expression, timely themes and an artistic way of mixing qualities on ...
Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, October 1973
MOTT IS THE ALBUM All The Young Dudes should have been; arrogant, defensive. The Hoople are the first people to go on the Bowie ego-trip ...
Mott The Hoople/The New York Dolls/Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show: Live in Masillon, Ohio
Live Review by Lester Bangs, Phonograph Record, November 1973
I'VE SEEN WORSE towns than Masillon but not many. Gila Bend, Arizona is worse by dint of being the asshole of the world, and I ...
Profile and Interview by Ben Edmonds, Creem, November 1973
MOTT THE HOOPLE. Good old Mott. "Oh yea, aren't they the band that..." Almost everybody, it seems, has their own "oh yea" for Mott the ...
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 1 November 1973
I RAN INTO Eric Emerson (Formerly of the Magic Tramps and now playing guitar and singing with his new band Angel) on the way into ...
Mott The Hoople: Memoirs of a Street Punk
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 January 1974
IAN HUNTER knows a thing or two about being a rock 'n' roll star. ...
Report and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1974
Being a rock star has its advantages, but the spotlight is usually only big enough for one person. Circus took a behind stage look at ...
Guy Stevens: Guy's Out For Glory
Profile and Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 30 March 1974
GUY STEVENS is the kind of guy who might be buttonholing your young lady in the boozer. ...
Profile and Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 30 March 1974
GUY STEVENS is the kind of guy who might be buttonholing your young lady in the boozer. ...
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, May 1974
No, Mott hasn't changed and yes, Ariel doesn't fit in ...
Profile by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 18 May 1974
Tony DeFries is Mr Big of today's rock —the 70s' Col. Parker. He deals in STARS, the most glittering of whom is David Bowie. He ...
A Frantic Mott Struggles To Stay On Top
Interview by Michael Gross, Circus, June 1974
Along with their mushrooming fame came high expectations from a hungry public, and suddenly they were competing against themselves as they face the task of ...
Interview by Mark Plummer, Zoo World, 6 June 1974
ARIEL BENDER was the eternal loser. A rock 'n roll gypsy who could touch gold and turn it to lead. All his roads took the ...
Mott The Hoople: The Hoople (Columbia)
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 6 June 1974
MOTT THE Hoople, as a concept band, never worked so well in terms of pure commerciality as they do on The Hoople. ...
Mott the Hoople: Rock on Broadway
Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 20 June 1974
NEW YORK — The hall had long since emptied. The only light on the stage was cast by a bare light bulb atop a scrawny ...
Mott the Hoople: The Hoople (Columbia)
Review by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, July 1974
IT'S TOUGH being a rock and roll star these days. Ask Ian Hunter, Mott the Hoople's lead singer and group dictator. After five years of ...
Mott the Hoople's Rock And Roll Queen — Skeletons From Mott's Closet
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus, August 1974
"I'm not keen on this album coming out," Ian Hunter confided about the old Mott tapes labeled Rock and Roll Queen. "They were done a ...
Mick Ronson: Taking Care Of Business
Interview by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 16 November 1974
YORKSHIREMEN are renowned for their good business sense and Hull-born Mick Ronson sure ain't going to be the one to let the side down. Already ...
Mott the Hoople: Mott The Hoople Live (Columbia)
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, January 1975
IF YOU HAVEN'T heard already, this album's a scorcher. Offhand I can't think of a live album that tops Mott's 50-minute opus here, but I'm ...
Mott The Hoople: Mick Ronson's One Of The Boys
Report and Interview by Ben Edmonds, Creem, January 1975
"I'd like," announced Ian Hunter, his sweeping hand motion orchestrated by an imaginary drum, "to introduce the new lead guitarist of Mott the Hoople...Mick Ronson!" ...
Ian Hunter: 'I Have Nothing To Say'
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 4 January 1975
THERE IS a certain poetic irony in the fact that Saturday Gigs and Mott The Hoople Live turned out to be Mott's farewell recordings anyway, despite the addition of ...
Mott The Hoople: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Creem, April 1975
EVEN AS MOTT the Hoople were announcing Mick Ronson as their new guitarist at a fancy New York press conference, plans were underway for the ...
Mott The Hoople: Mottamorphosis
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1975
Changed line-up brings more commercial sound ...
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 26 June 1976
Mott are shouting and the girls are pointing. That's what being on the road is all about. Mott are back and JONH INGHAM was there ...
Mott, Lone Star: Salford University, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 16 October 1976
…and here's what they fought to save you for: MOTT ...
Interview by Larry Jaffee, Imagine, March 1979
"I LEARNED MORE in the last three years than I would in 20 with Mott The Hoople," said Ian Hunter recently while awaiting to join ...
Review and Interview by Rob Chapman, MOJO, October 1996
Ian Hunter: Diary Of A Rock And Roll Star ...
Mott The Hoople: All The Young Dudes — The Anthology
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, October 1998
Triple-decker sandwich of hot Mott. All the hits, all your faves and all the other stuff too. Odds’n sods included Bowie’s guide-vocal version of 'Dudes'. ...
Mott the Hoople: All The Young Dudes: The Anthology
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 1998
Boxed set full of rarities and goodies from self-conscious stylists of Glam ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, 'Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001
Verden Allen, b. 26 May 1944 (replaced by Morgan Fisher); Dale 'Buffin' Griffin, b. 24 October 1948; Mick Ralphs, b. 31 March 1948, Hereford, England ...
Mojo Presents ... Mott The Hoople
Sleeve notes by Phil Sutcliffe, Mojo CD, 2003
THE BALLAD OF MOTT The Hoople is a tale of thigh-high platform boots and enormous moodswings, big shades and black leather and plans so ill ...
Interview by Larry Jaffee, On the Tracks, December 2003
LJ: IN YOUR BOOK Reflections of a Rock Star, it mentions your life-long ambition was to meet Dylan was set back again. You said you'd ...
The Greatest Songs Ever! 'All The Young Dudes'
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Blender, October 2004
David Bowie saved Mott the Hoople from extinction with this glam-rock anthem. ...
Mott The Hoople: The Making Of 'All The Young Dudes'
Retrospective and Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, January 2008
Breakups! Bowie! Gay roadies! The strange tale of glam rock's glorious singalong ...
Mott The Hoople: Teenage Riot!
Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, MOJO, May 2009
This is the complete, unedited version of the feature from Mojo, May 2009 ...
Mott the Hoople: All the Old Dudes
Report and Interview by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 9 August 2009
They just weren’t cool, so 35 years on why has Ian Hunter's band managed to sell-out three nights at Hammersmith Apollo? ...
see also Bad Company
see also Luther Grosvenor aka Ariel Bender
see also Ian Hunter
see also Widowmaker (UK)
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