Ian Hunter - joining Mott The Hoople, Bowie, Hamburg and being “enthused into craziness”.
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Ian Hunter - an image so familiar you’d recognise his silhouette - now lives in Connecticut and he’s just released expanded versions of two of his best-selling solo albums, You’re Never Alone With A Schizophrenic and Short Back N' Sides. He’s 85, born before any of the Beatles. We talk to him here about life growing up in the ‘40s and ‘50s when your father’s a copper and “music wasn’t allowed in the house”, and touch upon …
… the debt he owes Freddie ‘Fingers’ Lee.
… café jukeboxes full of Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Fats Domino.
… beating 165 acts at a talent contest at Butlins.
… the record that made the Beatles (which they didn’t write).
… “a two-piece corduroy suit, open-toed sandals, overweight …”: the Mott the Hoople audition.
… Bowie playing All The Young Dudes - “a monster” - cross-legged on the floor in Denmark Street after they’d turned down Suffragette City.
… why Hendrix was thrown out of Regent Sound studios.
… playing the Reeperbahn in 1963.
… recording ‘Schizophrenic’ with three members of the E Street Band.
… “Do you want a cuddle?” The Mick Ronson recording method.
… the good thing about Covid.
… watching punk bands with Mick Jones.
… plus a ‘dyed-black’ Ford Anglia and the Greatest Record Ever Made.
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It's been a mighty long way down rock and roll. From Shrewsbury to Connecticut. Thanks for all the dreams Ian.
The Golden age of Rock and Roll , and still rocking and rolling Ian ......
Really enjoyed this, Schizophrenic was Ian's most successful record sales wise in the USA and is one of his best solo records. His last two albums Defiance Parts 1 & 2 are incredible, the songs are brilliant and it's like the who's who of Rock royalty playing on the tunes 👍🎸😄
Great interview, Ian's most recent albums Defiance Part 1 & 2 are great, David Hepworths books are great.
Still remember the saturday gigs
What a guy
85 and still going strong
Congratulations
Hooray
Shrewsbury - sixty miles from Hereford: now I imagine that the most of the pubs are shut and gone - along with the shops - and that there are not even kebab wrappers blowing in the deserted streets at night. But that is my view from suburban Brisbane, Qld. Australia. [ex. of "Ghost Town" Coventry]. Please tell me I am wrong! ps "Ford Anglia" anecdote plus the "cuddle" - loved it! pps I recently watched a Rick Beato vid that explains the Bill Clinton signed off the law that created the radio monopoly that standardized music on radio.
I was born in Shrewsbury and now live there again. He deserves to have a blue plaque outside his old house in the Town centre.
Stayed to the end and realize ian is right Like a Rolling Stone is the greatest sounding record of all time Bob Dylan is an Alien
Not 85? Right
Saw him and Mott in west palm fla with Aerosmith New York Dolls
Stupendous