Alex Harvey Band - Last Train / 1974
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Hot City 2 009 (in 1974) (UK, Glam Rock)
Artist: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Location: Scotland
Album: Hot City
Released: 2009 (recorded in 1974)
Genre: Glam Rock
Duration: 40:41
Missed an album in 1974, was published in 2009. Being older than his music, and other colleagues in the rock scene 70 years at 10 (he debuted in the early 60s), Alex Harvey was different and quite unique style, combining glam, hard, cabaret and musical. Fulfilling the unbridled hooliganism rock, could sing Jacques Brel or even Tom Jones. That is, was this proto-punk and way of life led an appropriate ... Found film rejects in his time recording the album, which was later rewritten and published under the name The Impossible Dream. The songs, except one (Ace In The Hole), the same, sometimes under different names. But the arrangements and sound dramatically different. The revelation is that the official and very good-looking album, The Impossible Dream (1974) eat in comparison with the energy as fresh clot oatmeal. And then just rampant forces of valiant - Alex Harvey, with its sharply to the fore derived husky vocals appears in its most brutal, dirty and magnificent disguise, a real king in rags. Clearly, then scared then, not only the producers of those days, but the musicians themselves.
Tracks:
01. Vambo - 4:45
02. Man In The Jar - 5:03
03. Hey You - 0:42
04. Long Haired Music - 5:03
05. Sergeant Fury - 3:35
06. Tomahawk Kid - 6:20
07. Ace In The Hole - 2:35
08. Weights Made Of Lead - 2:34
09. Last Train - 9:46
Personnel:
- Alex Harvey - lead vocals
- Zal Cleminson - lead guitar
- Chris Glen - bass
- Hugh McKenna - keyboards
- Ted McKenna - drums
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