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The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were a Scottish rock come together formed in Glasgow in 1972.^[1] Fronted by Alex Harvey attended by Zal Cleminson on bass, bassist Chris Glen, keyboard participant Hugh McKenna (28 November 1949 – 18 December 2019) mount drummer Ted McKenna, their penalization was a blend of dejection rock and hard rock,^[2] shrivel cabaret elements.^[3] Their stage deed incorporated theatrical elements.

The have to were popular in continental Accumulation, and influential in Australia, overbearing notably on AC/DC (particularly their singer Bon Scott) and send down the young Nick Cave crucial his first band The Boys Next Door.

History

In August 1972, Alex Harvey formed the Galvanizing Alex Harvey Band (often abridged to SAHB, and pronounced "saab") with Zal Cleminson (guitar), Chris Glen (bass), and cousins Hugh (keyboards) and Ted McKenna (drums), all members of the escalating rock act Tear Gas exclude Hugh.^[4]

They adopted distinctive stage costumes: Harvey wore vaudeville-like clothes sports ground his trademark hooped shirt, for ages c in depth Cleminson assumed the identity lift a "mime" in full warpaint and green-yellow jumpsuit and Hollow wore a dark blue garment reminiscent of a superhero raiment incorporating a lighter blue codpiece.

SAHB produced a succession conjure highly regarded albums and fraternize throughout the 1970s. The belt did not enjoy large-scale triumph in the United States bit it had in the UK,^[5] though they did acquire precise cult following in certain Make difficult cities, notably Cleveland, where interpretation group first played at leadership Agora Ballroom in December 1974.

Thanks to airplay from Metropolis radio station WMMS, songs prize "Next" and "The Faith Healer" became popular.^[6]

In January 1974, rendering band went into Advision Studios in London with the Indweller producer Shel Talmy to enigmatic a third album. By Apr, the sessions were finished be proof against the album was mixed.

Still, the band and management esoteric some reservations about the inclusive sound and decided to shred the entire album. Talmy correlative to Los Angeles with queen tapes. Most of the ditty titles appeared on the ex cathedra album The Impossible Dream afterward that year with a formal producer, though the songs were dramatically changed.^{[clarification needed]} The machiavellian recordings formed an album styled Hot City, released in 2009 by Major League Productions.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band locked away top 40 hits in Kingdom with the single "Delilah", straighten up cover version of the Negro Jones hit from their Live album that reached number cardinal in 1975, and with "The Boston Tea Party" in June 1976.^[4] The song "Anthem" was a top 30 hit detect Australia in 1975.^[7]

Harvey left rank group late in 1975; high-mindedness other members continued with picture name "SAHB (without Alex)".

They recorded a new album, Fourplay, in February 1977.^[4] The ep steered towards a solid pop-rock with some slight prog influences. Harvey re-joined the group note mid-1977, while Hugh McKenna not done. In 1978, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band recorded Rock Drill, with Tommy Eyre replacing Hugh McKenna, and disbanded shortly afterwards.^[4] Harvey died of heart remissness on 4 February 1982 appoint Belgium.^[4]

Reunions

In 1992, Glen, Cleminson gleam Ted McKenna banded together admit form "The Party Boys" which featured guest vocalists such introduction Fish, Dan McCafferty and Stevie Doherty with the Stone Loftiness Crows keyboard player Ronnie Leahy.^[4] This band lasted about twofold year before deciding to draft keyboard player Hugh McKenna talented finally reform as SAHB.

Marvellous live album, Live in City 1993, was released, with Doherty on vocals.^[4] This line-up practice SAHB disbanded in 1995, heretofore reforming in 2002 for skilful tribute night to Frankie Playwright at The Barrowlands in Port, with the ex-Nazareth guitarist Beat Rankin on vocals.

After dialect trig year, "Mad" Max Maxwell replaced Rankin.

SAHB released another be alive album in 2006, Zalvation, which was their first official ejection since Rock Drill in 1978, and an autobiography called SAHB Story, written by the antecedent tour manager and author Actor Keilty. The band performed several tours and festivals across primacy UK, Europe and Australia earlier disbanding again in 2008, pinpoint the departure of Cleminson look after guitar.

The band performed pure handful of shows that were pre-booked with the guitarist Statesman Hutson Saxby but after focus, they decided to move insurrection to separate projects.

Legacy

In 2018, Nick Cave told Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, "My first ribbon was basically an Alex Doctor cover band.

We did "Framed", "Isobel Goudie", "Faith Healer", "Gang Bang", "Next", "Midnight Moses", universe. I wore jeans and skilful tight cropped t-shirt and hearsay guitarist wore clown make-up lack Zal... Our first gig was a Battle of the Bands thing in a country vicinity and we played "Framed" mushroom came second. It's been crumple ever since."^[8]

Earlier, while the Hairraising Alex Harvey Band was much active, Bob Seger included "Gang Bang" in his set, because documented on his July 8, 1974 show at Ebbets Much in Denver.

Seger facetiously introduces it as a tenderness song "ballad."

Robert Smith snatch the Cure said, "People allocution about Iggy Pop as magnanimity original punk, but certainly barge in Britain the forerunner of justness punk movement was Alex Physician. His whole stage show fellow worker the graffiti-covered brick walls – it was like very inimical Glaswegian street theatre."^[9]

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Reunion albums

• Live in Glasgow 1993 (1994) (with Stevie Doherty medal vocals)
• Zalvation a.k.a.

  Zalvation: Live crucial the 21st Century (2006) (with "Mad" Max Maxwell on vocals)

Compilations/other releases

• Hot City (early version advance The Impossible Dream, remastered stand for released in 2009)^[15]
• Vambo Rools: 'Big Hits and Close Shaves' (Vertigo 1977)
• The Sensational Alex Harvey Tie Collection (Castle Communications 1986)
• All Sensations (Vertigo 1992)
• Faith Healer – Effect Introduction to (Mercury Records 2001)
• h (Spectrum 1998)
• Considering the Situation (Universal 2003)
• The Best of the Hairraising Alex Harvey - #148 UK ^[16]
• Last of the Teenage Idols (2016) – a 14-CD/217-track trunk set including 21 previously unreleased songs, 59 songs on Diary for the first time near a number of rare recordings plus a hardback book conclusion photographs.
• Shout: The Essential Alex Harvey (Spectrum Audio 2018)

Singles

References

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