MOTT THE HOOPLE Reuniting For 40th Anniversary Concerts
January 16, 2009, 15 years ago
According to Rollingstone.com, MOTT THE HOOPLE, the British glam-rock band that had a huge hit in 1972 with 'All the Young Dudes,' are reuniting to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band’s 1969 birth. Mott has scheduled two shows, October 2nd and 3rd, at London’s famed HMV Apollo (formerly the Hammersmith Apollo). The concerts mark the first time the original lineup - singer Ian Hunter, guitarist Mick Ralphs, organist Verden Allen, drummer Dale Griffin and bassist Overend Watts - has performed together in 35 years. “Why are we doing it? I can’t speak for the others, but I’m doing it just to see what it’s like,” Hunter writes on his website. “Short of war, death, famine etc. …it’s ON.”
'All The Young Dudes' was written and produced by the band’s fan DAVID BOWIE. In fact, the song was originally authored during the Thin White Duke’s Ziggy Stardust sessions and shares some thematic similarities to Bowie’s iconic album. He originally offered the band 'Suffragette City', but they turned it down so he whipped up 'Young Dudes', and the rest is glam rock history.
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'All the Young Dudes' live with David Bowie:
