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Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople in 1974 (left to right: Dale Griffin, Ariel Bender, Morgan Fisher (front), Overend Watts, Ian Hunter)

Mott the Hoople in 1974
(left to correct: Dale Griffin, Ariel Bough, Morgan Fisher (front), Overend Watts, Ian Hunter)
Background information
Also known as Mott (1974–1976)
Origin Hereford, Herefordshire, England
Genres
  • Glam stone
  • difficult stone
Years agile 1969–1980, 2020–nowadays
(Reunions: 2009, 2013, 2018, 2019)
Labels Island, Atlantic, CBS, Columbia
Associated acts Queen, Bad Company, Widowmaker, David Bowie, British Lions
Members Ian Hunter
Ariel Bender
Morgan Fisher
James Mastro
Steve Holley
Mark Bosch
Paul Folio
Dennis Dibrizzi
Past members Pete Overend Watts
Dale "Buffin" Griffin
Verden Allen
Mick Ronson
Ray Major
Nigel Benjamin
Steve Hyams
Mick Ralphs
Mick Bolton

Mott the Hoople are an English language rock band formed in Herefordshire, England. Originally known as the Doctor Thomas Group, the group changed their name after signing with Isle Records in 1969. The band released albums throughout the early 1970s just failed to find commercial success. On the verge of breaking upwards, the band were encouraged by David Bowie to stay together. Bowie wrote the glam rock song "All the Young Dudes" for them, which became a huge commercial success in 1972. Bowie subsequently produced an album of the same name for them, which continued their success.

Despite personnel changes, the band had further commercial success with Mott (1973) and The Hoople (1974). Pb singer Ian Hunter departed the ring in 1974, after which the band's commercial fortunes began to dwindle. They remained together with continuing personnel changes until their break-up in 1980. The ring take had reunions in 2009, 2013, 2022 and 2019, and have reunited as of 2020[ commendation needed ].

History [edit]

Pre-Mott [edit]

The Doc Thomas Grouping were formed in 1966 with Mick Ralphs on guitar, Stan Tippins on vocals, and Pete Overend Watts on bass. Ralphs and Tippins had been in a local Hereford band the Buddies, and Watts had been in a local Ross-on-Wye ring the Soulents with Dale "Buffin" Griffin on drums. The Doc Thomas Group had a concert residency at a nightclub in a resort town in Italian republic. The grouping was offered a recording contract with the Italian label Dischi Interrecord, and released an eponymous anthology in January 1967. By 1968, Griffin and organist Verden Allen had joined the band.

Although the group toured and recorded in Italia equally the Dr. Thomas Group, their gigs in the United kingdom were played under the names of the Shakedown Sound and later on, equally Silence. Silence recorded demos at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, which were shopped to EMI, Polydor, Immediate and Apple with no success.

Early years [edit]

The grouping came to the attention of Guy Stevens at Island, who liked the group but not with Tippins as pb vocaliser. Advertisements were placed ("Singer wanted, must exist paradigm-minded and hungry"), and Ian Hunter was selected as lead vocalist and piano player. Tippins causeless the role of road managing director.[ane] While in prison house on a drug offence, Stevens read the Willard Paw novel Mott the Hoople, about an eccentric who works in a circus freak prove, and decided to use it as a band name.[i] Silence reluctantly agreed to change the band's name to Mott The Hoople following their audience for Stevens in early on 1969.[1]

The band's debut album, Mott the Hoople (1969), recorded in only a week,[one] was a cult success. Their repertoire included cover versions of "Laugh at Me" (Sonny Bono) and "At the Crossroads" (Doug Sahm's Sir Douglas Quintet), and an instrumental embrace of "Y'all Really Got Me" (The Kinks).[2]

The 2nd album, Mad Shadows (1970), sold poorly and received generally negative reviews. Wildlife (1971) fared even worse (despite gaining the highest U.k. album chart position of the band's pre-Glam years), and flirted with an overtly country-hippie stance and more acoustic instrumentation on some Ralphs-penned songs . On 10 Oct 1970, Mott the Hoople and Bridget St John were showcased on BBC2's Disco 2.[three] Even though the group was building a decent following, Brain Capers (1971) failed to sell well. The group decided to divide following a depressing concert in a disused gas holder in Switzerland.[1] When combined with an aborted U.k. tour with The Lothringers, the band was shut to breaking up.

Glam years [edit]

David Bowie had long been a fan of the band. Afterward learning from Watts that they were about to split,[i] he persuaded them to stay together and offered them "Suffragette Metropolis" from his then yet-to-exist-released Ziggy Stardust album.[1] They turned it downwards. Bowie also penned "All the Young Dudes" for them and information technology became their biggest hit.[i] Released as a unmarried in July 1972,[four] information technology was a success in the United kingdom, with the ring using Tippins – who by this time was their tour manager – to sing backing vocals during concert. Bowie produced an anthology, as well chosen All the Young Dudes, which included a Mick Ronson strings and brass organisation for "Sea Diver". Information technology sold well, but stalled at No. 21 in the UK Albums Chart.[1] Another casualty in the wake of All the Immature Dudes was Verden Allen, who departed before the release of their next anthology, Mott.[i]

Mott climbed into the Top x of the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Albums Chart,[iv] and became the band'southward best seller to date in the US. Information technology yielded ii UK hits, "Honaloochie Boogie" and "All the Way from Memphis",[4] both featuring Andy Mackay of Roxy Music on saxophone. "All the Way from Memphis" is also featured in the movie Alice Doesn't Live Hither Anymore.

In May 1973, following Verden Allen's departure, the band was augmented past ii keyboard players. Former Love Affair and Morgan member Morgan Fisher joined as keyboardist[i] and Mick Bolton joined on Hammond Organ. Bolton left at the end of 1973 and was replaced on tour by Blue Weaver, while Fisher stayed on to become Allen's official replacement in the band. Ralphs left in Baronial 1973 to grade Bad Company and was replaced by sometime Spooky Molar guitarist Luther Grosvenor.[i] For contractual reasons, he changed his proper noun to Ariel Bender at the suggestion of singer-songwriter Lynsey de Paul for his stint with the ring.[1] Co-ordinate to Ian Hunter, interviewed in the documentary Ballad of Mott the Hoople, the band were in Deutschland with de Paul for a Television set show when Mick Ralphs walked downwardly a street bending a succession of car aerials in frustration. De Paul came out with the phrase "aerial bough" which Hunter afterwards suggested to Grosvenor as a stage proper noun.[5]

In 1974, the ring had a chart success in the UK with "Curl Away the Stone" recorded before Mick Ralphs left the band. Ralphs played lead guitar and the Thunderthighs provided female person vocal backing and a bridge. Information technology reached No.viii on the UK Singles Chart.[half dozen]

In 1974, Mott the Hoople toured America with Ariel Bough playing pb guitar. In one of Bender'south earliest performances with the ring they played the Masonic Temple in Detroit on 12 October 1973 with a young Aerosmith opening the show. They were primarily supported on the '74 tour by the band Queen. This bout after provided the inspiration for Queen's 1975 unmarried "Now I'yard Here", which contains the lyrics "Down in the city, just Hoople and me." The song became a live favourite of Queen fans and reached No. 11 in the U.k. Singles Nautical chart.[7] The tour resulted in a lifelong friendship between the two bands, with Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson and David Bowie performing "All the Young Dudes" at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992. Morgan Fisher went on to play pianoforte on Queen's 'Hot Space' tour in 1982, and Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor performed backing vocals on the Ian Hunter solo song, "You Nigh Did Me In". May would later cover Mott's "All the Way from Memphis" on his solo album, Another World, with Hunter making a invitee appearance. Mott the Hoople are name-checked on 2 other hit singles. Reunion's 1974 single "Life Is a Stone (Just the Radio Rolled Me)" begins with the lyrics 'B Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers...'.;[8] and R.E.1000.'south "Human being on the Moon" begins with 'Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life, yep, yeah, yeah, yeah...'

In the afterglow of The Hoople (1974), a live anthology Live was quickly released, after which Mick Ronson replaced Bough.[1] The cease was near when both Hunter and Ronson left the grouping to form a duo, post-obit which the band abbreviated its name to 'Mott'.[2]

Hunter'due south book Diary of a Stone'northward'Curlicue Star well-nigh the day-to-day life on the band's 1972 winter bout of the Usa, roofing the ups and downs of life on the road,[one] was published in June 1974. It was out of print for many years but was reissued in 1996.[9]

Post-Hunter years [edit]

The new line-up consisted of Watts, Griffin, and Fisher forth with lead guitarist Ray Major (formerly of Opal Butterfly, Hackensack, and a brief stint with Andy Fraser and Frankie Miller) and front man Nigel Benjamin. This line-upward released two more albums, Bulldoze On (1975) and Shouting and Pointing (1976), both of which sold poorly.[1] After Benjamin quit in 1976, Mott briefly replaced him with Steve Hyams,[10] before joining forces with John Fiddler (formerly of Medicine Caput), and became British Lions, recording two albums, British Lions (1977) and Trouble With Women (posthumously released on Cherry Red Records 1980) before finally splitting up without any chart success.[1] Hunter and Ronson worked and toured together sporadically until Ronson's death in 1993.[1] Hunter has continued his solo career.

In 1990, after a cursory reunion in 1989, the former members of The Silence reunited in the studio to record a mix of new songs and staples from their days performing together. The resultant album Shotgun Optics was released in 1998, combined with The Italian Job (a re-release of the Doc Thomas Group'south self-titled album).[11]

In 1996 1000-tel released a CD called The Best of Mott the Hoople purporting to be re-recordings of the band'southward hits and new songs by Hunter and Ronson. In actuality, the recording was by Danny McCulloch, onetime bass player with Eric Burdon and the New Animals and Gerry Chapman, usually going under the band name of The Trybe. The anthology consisted of heavy stone versions of Mott'southward hits and original songs, and had aught at all to do with the original Mott the Hoople. K-tel were subsequently fined for supplying goods with a faux clarification, but the tracks and album connected to circulate under the name Mott the Hoople, often appearing on compilation albums. In 2002, the tracks were released again every bit I Can't Believe It'south Not Mott the Hoople!, though this time it was credited to The Trybe.

On 16 and 17 April 1999, the first and only 'Mott the Hoople Convention' was held at the Robin Hood Pub in Bilston, Wolverhampton, England. Hunter and his band performed both evenings of the convention. During the encore of the Ian Hunter Band'southward performance of 17 April, Hunter was joined onstage past Bender and Allen for a version of "Walkin' With A Mountain"; Allen performed on the original studio version of the song, whilst Bender performed an extended solo during performances of the vocal on Mott the Hoople's 1973–74 tours.

In 2002 and 2004, Ralphs toured with Hunter, every bit part of the latter's backing band.

No Mott the Hoople reunion occurred prior to 2009, although negotiations for one were attempted in 1985; all parties have shown some interest at various times in the idea over the last 30 years. In 2005 it was reported in the publication Classic Rock, that Hunter had received the offer of a seven-figure number to re-course the band. In October 2007 at Hunter'due south concert at the Shepherd'south Bush Empire, he was joined by Ralphs and Allen for the encore.

2009 reunion [edit]

Mott the Hoople reunion, 2009

On xvi Jan 2009, it was announced that the band would be re-uniting for 2 concerts at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, in October 2009.[12] According to Hunter's web site, all 5 of the original members would participate in the reunion. Hunter wrote, "Why are nosotros doing it? I tin't speak for the others, but I'm doing it just to run into what it'due south like. Brusque of war, expiry, famine etc... information technology's ON."[13] Tickets for the two original dates sold out, and a third date at the same venue was added for 3 October 2009. Later on that one sold out as well another two dates were added on v and 6 Oct. The special limited 3 CD-set recorded during the first evidence at Hammersmith Apollo was sold direct after the concerts.

Mott the Hoople as well held a warmup gig prior to their 5-night stand at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo in October. The show was held at the Blake Theatre in Monmouth, Wales, on 26 September 2009. Prior to this it was announced that because of the poor wellness of Buffin, his place for the concerts would be taken past Martin Chambers, drummer of The Pretenders,[14] though Griffin did appear at encores.

The reunion was favourably reviewed by major British broadsheet newspapers, with The Guardian,[15] The Times [16] and The Independent awarding 4/5 stars[17] and The Daily Telegraph application 5/v.[18] On 27 November 2009, Mott the Hoople played The Tartan Clefs charity night in Glasgow.[19]

2013 dates [edit]

Mott the Hoople (featuring Allen, Hunter, Ralphs and Watts with Martin Chambers on drums) played the O2 Arena in London on xviii November 2013,[xx] preceded by dates in Birmingham, Glasgow, Newcastle and Manchester (the latter of which was recorded for a limited edition CD/DVD). One critic described the concert at the O2 Arena equally "a bit of a slog" and Hunter's vocalisation as "now little more than than a guttural rasp".[21] A recording of 17 November 2013 show at the O2 Apollo Manchester was released in June 2022 as a double anthology/DVD, Live 2013. Several years after the 2013 reunion, Mott the Hoople lost two of its founding members: Dale Griffin died on 17 January 2022 at the historic period of 67, and Overend Watts died on 22 January 2022 at the historic period of 69.

2018 dates [edit]

In February 2022 information technology was announced that Mott the Hoople would be playing several European dates in the summer of 2018. Ian Hunter would exist joined by erstwhile bandmates Morgan Fisher on keyboards and Ariel Bender on guitar. In a press release, Hunter said "[Fisher and Bender] toured extensively with Mott and both were featured heavily on The Hoople album afterwards Mick Ralphs and Verden Allen left the band... I know many people were disappointed when neither appeared on the 2009 and 2013 get-togethers. Promise this makes up for it!"[22] The line-up would likewise include James Mastro and Mark Bosch on guitars, Dennis DiBrizzi on keyboards, Paul Page on bass, and Steve Holley on drums. Holley – a member of Wings from 1978 to 1981 – has been a member of Hunter's "Rant Band" since 2001.

2019 dates [edit]

In January 2019, the band announced the "Tax the Oestrus" bout, a brief six-show Uk tour in April 2019, preceded by an eight-date bout of the US as "Mott the Hoople '74" (which began on 1 April and concluded on 10 Apr at the Beacon Theatre in New York Urban center). This was the first time in 45 years that Mott The Hoople had toured the U.s.a.. Indeed, the core '74 members Ian Hunter, Ariel Bough and Morgan Fisher historic the 45th anniversary of their 1974 US tour (hence the name of the bill), also as the original release of The Hoople and Live, the final albums of the classic Mott The Hoople era. The band includes Ian Hunter (vocals and guitar), Ariel Bender (guitar) and Morgan Fisher (keyboards) joined by James Mastro (guitar, saxophone, mandolin), Steve Holley (drums, bankroll vocals), Mark Bosch (guitar), Paul Folio (bass) and Dennis Dibrizzi (keyboards, backing vocals).[23]

The ring were due to tour the Us in Oct and November 2019, performing 11 shows.[24] The tour dates were cancelled due to Ian Hunter's tinnitus.[25]

2020-Present [edit]

Personnel [edit]

Timeline

Discography [edit]

Albums [edit]

  • Mott the Hoople (1969) – Uk No. 66 / The states No. 185
  • Mad Shadows (1970) – U.k. No. 48
  • Wild animals (1971) – UK No. 44 / Usa No. 207 (bubbled nether)
  • Brain Capers (1971) – United states No. 208 (bubbled under)
  • All the Young Dudes (1972) – Britain No. 21 / US No. 89
  • Mott (1973) – UK No. 7 / US No. 35 / Can. No. 43
  • The Hoople (1974) – UK No. 11 / US No. 28 / Tin. No. 28

Mott albums [edit]

  • Drive On (September 1975) – Britain No. 35 / The states No. 160 (Sony/Rewind 487237 2)
  • Shouting and Pointing (June 1976) – Great britain No. 45 (Sony/Rewind 489492 two)[2]

Compilations and live albums [edit]

  • Rock and Roll Queen (1972)
  • Live (1974)[28] / Tin can. No. 51
  • Mott the Hoople - Greatest Hits (1976)
  • Two Miles from Sky (1980)
  • London to Memphis (1991)
  • Ballad of Mott the Hoople – A Retrospective (1993)
  • Backsliding Fearlessly: The Early Years (1994)
  • Original Mixed Up Kids – The BBC Recordings (1996)
  • All The Way From Stockholm To Philadelphia - Live 71/72 (1998)
  • All the Young Dudes: The Album (1998 3-CD box set)
  • Rock 'north' Ringlet Circus Live 1972 (2000)
  • A Tale of Ii Cities (2000)
  • Two Miles from Live Heaven (2001)
  • Mott the Hoople Live – 30th Anniversary Edition (2004)
  • Family Anthology (2005)
  • Alive Fillmore W (2006)
  • Fairfield Halls, Live 1970 (2007)
  • In Performance 1970–1974 (2008) (4-CD box set of live concerts, published by Angel Air Records)
  • Former Records Never Die: The Mott the Hoople/Ian Hunter Anthology (2008)
  • Hammersmith Apollo – one Oct 2009 (January 2010) (3-CD box gear up; Indie Europe/Zoom)
  • Live at Hammersmith Apollo 2009 (May 2010) (2-CD)
  • Alive 2013 (June 2014) (double album/DVD of 17 Nov 2013 concert at the O2 Apollo Manchester)

Singles [edit]

  • "Stone and Scroll Queen" / "Road to Birmingham" (October 1969)
  • "Rock and Roll Queen" / "Backsliding Fearlessly" (Jan 1970)
  • "Midnight Lady" / "It Must Exist Love" (October 1971)
  • "Downtown" / "Home Is Where I Desire to Be" (December 1971)
  • "All the Young Dudes" / "One of the Boys" (July 1972) – UK No. three / US No. 37 / Can No. 31
  • "1 of the Boys" / "Sucker" (January 1973) Us No. 96
  • "Sweet Jane" / "Jerkin' Crocus" (March 1973) – (not released in the UK)
  • "Honaloochie Boogie" / "Rose" (May 1973) – UK No. 12
  • "All the Way from Memphis" / "Ballad of Mott the Hoople (26 March 1972 – Zürich)" (August 1973) – United kingdom No. 10
  • "Gyre Away the Rock" / "Where Exercise You lot All Come From" (November 1973) – Great britain No. 8
  • "The Golden Age of Stone 'north' Roll" / "Rest in Peace" (March 1974) – Britain No. 16 / The states No. 96
  • "Foxy, Foxy" / "Trudi's Vocal" (June 1974) – UK No. 33
  • "Saturday Gigs" / Medley; "Jerkin' Crocus" – "Sucker" (live) (October 1974) – UK No. 41
  • "All the Young Dudes" (live) / "Rose" (December 1974)[ii] [4]

Run into also [edit]

  • List of Island Records artists
  • Listing of glam rock artists
  • Listing of performers on Top of the Pops
  • Tony Mott

References [edit]

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Bibliography [edit]

  • Mott the Hoople (a novel past Willard Manus) ISBN 0-7351-0377-one

External links [edit]

  • Official spider web site
  • Mott the Hoople discography at Discogs
  • Mott the Hoople at IMDb
  • Harris, John. Mott the Hoople: The dudes abide, The Guardian, 3 September 2009.
  • Review of Mott the Hoople at Hammersmith, October 2009, Classic Stone Revisited

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