Mott The Hoople

UK three CD set. These 60 Huge Hits from the 1970s are a line of up of amazing songs that reflect how diverse the music from this decade truly was - in a time when all these tracks would be played side by side on the radio and bought in their millions - in the decade that set records for singles sales. Opening with a trio of #1's and three of the biggest selling singles of the era - Abba, Simon & Garfunkel and Blondie set the bar high. Also includes classics from 10cc, Electric Light Orchestra, Rod Stewart, Olivia Newton-John, Smokie, David Essex, Glen Campbell, Earth Wind & Fire, Mike Oldfield, Elvis Presley, Ike & Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Bob Dylan, Don McLean, Stealers Wheel, Mott The Hoople, Joan Armatrading, Marianne Faithfull, The Walker Brothers, The Jam, The Boomtown Rats, and many others. 60 Essential Songs - including 15 #1's - that summarize the brilliance and diversity of the 1970s comprise The Best 70's Album In The World… Ever!

Amazon review by David Dalrymple
Is this the best glam rock compilation out there? Yes. Is this the best glam rock album compilation there could ever be? Not quite. This album does a great job of showcasing the biggest hits from the biggest UK glam rock bands of the early 1970s, such as Slade, Sweet, Mud, Mott the Hoople and Roxy Music. What are especially welcome are one-hit wonders such as Geordie and Cozy Powell. However, there are a couple tracks that don't fit in, ("Radar Love" and the Faces' "Stay With Me", in particular) and a few bands are not represented at all. (such as Barry Blue and the Rubettes) The two biggest sins of omission, however, are with Gary Glitter and T.Rex. All of the T.Rex tracks on this album are from "Tanx". Their only US hit, "Get it On (Bang a Gong)", is absent. And since his conviction on child porn charges coincided with its release, Gary Glitter is not on this album at all! Just his former bandmates, the Glitter Band.

Three CD collection featuring 60 tracks that were the soundtrack to the terraces and back streets of 70s Britain. Featuring 'Lads Rock' legends The Faces, Mott The Hoople and Slade. Plus stalwarts from the heavier end of Glam, with the likes of Sweet, Geordie and Hector and a swathe of non art school Punk outfits like Cock Sparrer, Slaughter & The Dogs and Sham 69. And pre Oi! Pioneers like Menace, Angelic Upstarts and Cockney Rejects. Not to mention 'bovver rock' rarities from the likes of Scruff, Johnny Du Cann and Cyanide… 60 tracks that exude a 'who do you think you're shoving around' attitude… and not a ballad among them. With a fully illustrated booklet with notes on each track.

Four CD set. Following on from the critical and commercial success of Can The Glam comes Teenage Glampage - Can The Glam 2. Featuring a further 80 Glambusters spread over 4 CDs, covering the well known to the ultra obscure. Including Top 20 hits from the likes of Mott The Hoople, Wizzard, The Sweet, Cozy Powell, Geordie and Mud through to Junk Shop Glam obscurities from the likes of Sting, Soho Jets, Buster, Hector and Iron Cross. From Teenyboppers like Child, Flintlock and The James Boys via Rockers from Stevie Wright, Ted Mulry Gang, Trevor White and Angel to bandwagon jumpers like Barron Knights and Brotherhood Of Man, this release covers the whole spectrum of the 70s Glam Rock explosion. Each track is illustrated and has a biog, the booklet running to 32 pages and over 10,000 words, all housed in a clam shell box. With many tracks are appearing here on CD for the first time.

• Following the success of the first two volumes of the series I’m A Freak Baby, Grapefruit returns with a third instalment of pioneering hard rock sounds from the nascent British underground.
• As with its predecessors, I’m A Freak Baby 3 includes many of the acts who were synonymous with the stoner, free festival element of the English counterculture, with key tracks from such seminal underground stalwarts as Mick Farren and The Deviants, Edgar Broughton Band, Pink Fairies and Hawkwind.
• We also include musicians and bands who were honing their sound before finding huge success: the embryonic Deep Purple, the teenage Free, first album Thin Lizzy, Lemmy (fronting Sam Gopal) and a pre-fame Mott The Hoople are joined by old-stagers The Yardbirds, represented by an incendiary 1968 live version of “Dazed And Confused”, a song that Jimmy Page would take with him to his next band.

Sequestered in Kentish Town to record an album with Hendrix / Slade producer Chas Chandler, in the spring of 1971 exiled American band Eggs Over Easy persuaded the landlord of local pub The Tally Ho to let them perform at the venue. Though the band were back in America by the end of the year, they inadvertently became the catalysts that sparked the pub rock revolution, with the likes of Brinsley Schwarz, Ducks Deluxe and Bees Make Honey playing a burgeoning circuit that included The Kensington in Russell Gardens, The Lord Nelson on Holloway Road and The Nashville in West Kensington.b Surrender To The Rhythm charts the origins and development of the London pub rock scene throughout the Seventies, featuring all of the aforementioned bands as well as such key names as Dr. Feelgood, Ace, Kilburn and The High Roads, Dave Edmunds, Graham Parker and Elvis Costello. We follow the scene into the late Seventies and the Stiff / punk era with the arrival of new, younger blood that included Eddie and The Hot Rods, The 101’ers, The Jam and Squeeze.

Sequestered in Kentish Town to record an album with Hendrix / Slade producer Chas Chandler, in the spring of 1971 exiled American band Eggs Over Easy persuaded the landlord of local pub The Tally Ho to let them perform at the venue. Though the band were back in America by the end of the year, they inadvertently became the catalysts that sparked the pub rock revolution, with the likes of Brinsley Schwarz, Ducks Deluxe and Bees Make Honey playing a burgeoning circuit that included The Kensington in Russell Gardens, The Lord Nelson on Holloway Road and The Nashville in West Kensington.b Surrender To The Rhythm charts the origins and development of the London pub rock scene throughout the Seventies, featuring all of the aforementioned bands as well as such key names as Dr. Feelgood, Ace, Kilburn and The High Roads, Dave Edmunds, Graham Parker and Elvis Costello. We follow the scene into the late Seventies and the Stiff / punk era with the arrival of new, younger blood that included Eddie and The Hot Rods, The 101’ers, The Jam and Squeeze.