The Glitter Band (l to r): John Springate (bass, vocals), Tony Leonard (drums), Gerry Shephard (lead guitar, vocals), Pete Phipps (drums, keyboards, vocals), Harvey Ellison (sax, keyboards, guitar, vocals), John Rossall (sax, trombone, vocals). A new album, recorded live at the London Marquee Club, appeared in 1985, while a succession of hits collections (several featuring newly re-recorded material) kept their name alive on the record shelves. In June 1972, he began working for Gary Glitter's backing band The Glittermen and, in the same month, they made their first appearance on Top of the Pops with "Rock and Roll Part 2". In 2009, drummer Pete Phipps (who had taken ownership of the name "The Glitter Band") and original bassist and vocalist John Springate put together a new version of the group with the addition of Dominic Rodgers on guitar and vocals, and Eddie Spence on keyboards and vocals. It got no airplay and failed to chart. Playing hard-stomping glam rock with singalong choruses as well as more straightforward romantic pop, the Glitter Band were named for their association with glam idol Gary Glitter. [3] With a few changes in personnel, the Boston Showband became the Glittermen, and later The Glitter Band in 1973[4] who were: John Rossall (trombone and musical director), Gerry Shephard (lead guitar and vocals), Pete Phipps (drums and keyboards), Tony Leonard (drums), John Springate (bass and vocals) and Harvey Ellison (saxophone). This is unfortunate to say the least as Leander himself had a brilliantly original musical mind and, unlike the equally genius Meek, never murdered anyone. He has recorded with: "LIVE-WIRE EURYTHMICS MAKE A SOULFUL NOISE IN CONCERT", Learn how and when to remove this template message, The Official Website for Pete Phipps and The Glitter Band, The Official Glitter Band Website The Glitter Band, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete_Phipps&oldid=1117447212, This page was last edited on 21 October 2022, at 19:44. [8] The band's profile was maintained with a slew of Greatest Hits releases, mainly concentrating on their peak mid-1970s era. There are a few lowlights but it will allow you to hear the versatility of the band and that utterly distinctive hey! sound which made them famous. GARY Glitters former bandmates have spoken of their 20 years in the wilderness since the singer was unmasked as a paedophile. Gary Glitter Modest Mouse Angels of Light The Melvins Frank Zappa Tortoise Hidden Orchestra Dananananaykroyd Kylesa Godsmack, occasionally Do Make Say Think Tornavalanche Mushroomhead Black Eyes U.S. Christmas The Fall 1981-1984; 1993-1997 (occasional) NoMeansNo 1993-1997 Radiohead The Roots Pavement Arcade Fire Levon Helm during the '80s They were recently included in the BBC Four show Glam Rock At The BBC which reminded me how much I had loved them when I was young, and it was a rare opportunity to see them again on TV. The Glitter Band's second album might indeed have borne one of the era's most cringe-worthy titles, and a sleeve that wasn't much better. It met with instant success and reached. He was working on a David Essex session and when David had rung in sick with a cold Mike started work on this instrumental. It also inspired me to write this article. Early in 2001, along with shows with the Glitter Band, Santanarama and Glitz Blitz at a range of venues nationwide, Phipps made a return to playing some R&B with a South East-based band Desperate Measures. Something went wrong, please try again later. Switching . (Album) 2 versions : Bell Records, Bell Records: BELLS 241, 2308 095: UK: 1974: Sell This Version: 2 versions : Image Title Label Catalog Number Year In Your Collection, Wantlist, or Inventory Actions; V 2219, V2219: British Electric Foundation . [2][3] He was later a member of the band Random Hold, who toured with XTC in 1979, leading to him playing drums on the XTC album Mummer after Terry Chambers left the band, and he returned for the recording of their next album The Big Express. With his first major concert tour looming, Glitter and producer/co-conspirator Mike Leander needed a full-time backing band for live work. [12] Rossall and Harvey Ellison continued to tour with their band, releasing the album Glitteresque in 2008, which was subsequently withdrawn from circulation by their record company because of trademark infringement. And Rossall has gone on record to say if Leander could play brass neither he nor Ellison would have featured either. Leander produced all of the Glitter Bands albums. Sometimes Smith hits the nail on the head, and even if he is exaggerating to make a point, The Glitter Band had an amazingly unique sound, a sound that has gone on to inspire an unlikely cross section of musicians. This article on a British drummer is a stub. I shall surely play them again now. Perrone, Pierre (2003) "Obituary: Gerry Shephard; Glitter Band guitarist and songwriter". "It seems like every time we get a series of gigs together and some sort of comeback is on the cards, he will get arrested and we lose a lot of shows. I was never embarrassed that Id been a fan of theirs when I was so young, which wasnt the case with a lot of my childhood music idols. [3] Shephard and Phipps had previously guested on Denim's Back In Denim (1992).[11]. "It was nerve wracking. If you love what we do, you can help tQ to continue bringing you the best in cultural criticism and new music by joining one of our subscription tiers. The B-side, You Wouldnt Leave Me Would You, a Springate/Shephard composition, carries on where Angel Face left off and the intro reminds me of a few punk and new wave tunes which followed just a few years later. Although the band was not physically present on any of Glitter's own hits (according to the singer, Mike Leander alone played every instrument himself), the Glitter Band not only accompanied Glitter on his tours and television appearances, they also racked up seven hits of their own, six of them making the Top Ten. The music group originally came jointly in 1972, pursuing Glitter's very own breakthrough using the strike "Stone.". He was last year caged for 16 years over a string of child sex crimes. He said: Gary was driving in limousines and flying first class and we were staying in bed and breakfasts and travelling in a Transit. Shes been buying records for over 40 years and going to gigs since the 70s (just!) The band have become entangled in Gary Glitters new world and they feel unfairly tarred with the same brush as their former singer, as John Rossal their new leader wearily explains. The Glitter Band regrouped under their old name in 1980, around the same time as Gary Glitter himself moved back into focus. In 1974, when I was 10 years old, I bought my very first record with my own money. Rossall adds: "The whole Glitter sound started on a Mike Leander instrumental. The original band members were: Gerry Shephard (lead guitar and vocals) John Springate (Bass & Vocals) Pete Phipps (Drums and Keyboards) John Rossall (Sax, Trombone & Musical Director), Pete Gill (Drums), Tony Leonard (Drums), and Harvey Ellison (sax)The Glitter Band are still touring today featuring original members Pete Phipps and John Springate. A lot of people who criticise us for playing these songs dont really know the whole depth of the story. Experimenting in the studio one night Leander did one of those rare things: he synthesised a whole new pop sound from some unlikely sources. "Mike played all instruments apart from the brass which me and Gerry did. U.K. Glam Rock Top 10. haj1909. One of the identifying features of the glitter bands of the early Seventies was the drumming. Bell Records signed the Glitter Band as a new artist, and Angel Face was released on 1st March 1974. The band include some Glitter songs in their set but Dominic said music producer Mike Leander was the real genius behind the Glitter sound. Broadcast on 31st January 2021 for Soul Radio USA's Virtual 70's and 80's New Year's Eve Party, this is an exclusive Interview with Pete Phipps lead drummer . We never socialised.. In late 1977, the group transferred to Epic for one final single, a cover of the Bee Gees' "Gotta Get a Message to You," but by 1978, the band had all but fallen apart. There is a band on Back From The Grave 4 called Beep Beep & The Roadrunners who were using two drummers back in '62/'63. The year 2000 saw the founding of Santanarama, a six-piece tribute to Carlos Santana, and Glitz Blitz, a three-piece tribute to the 1970s. A dynamic combination". Rossall shakes his head with sadness at the way Leander has nearly been forgotten. A new album, recorded live at the London Marquee Club, appeared in 1985, while a succession of hits collections (several featuring newly re-recorded material) kept their name alive on the record shelves. Purveying hard-driving bar-band blues-rock to the kids, via songs like "Black Diamond," "Love Gun," and "Cold Gin," Kiss earned 30 RIAA-certified gold records, 14 platinum albums and three that. After Rossall was taken to court in 1983, an injunction banned him from using Glitter in his band name; a second legal ruling in 1997, after Rossall had persistently breached the first order, resulted in him receiving a one-year suspended prison sentence which would come into force if he used the Glitter name again. Ophidian I drummer Ragnar Sverrisson picks out the finest drummers in tech death who have helped push the genre's boundaries, complete with drum-cam playthroughs . In 1974, Mike Leander reluctantly allowed the Glitter Band (as they were now known) to make a record as promised. Joyce tweets. [3] In April 2010, The Glitter Band performed at Scala, Kings Cross, London where they were joined by special guests Angie Bowie and Adam Ant. The story of the Glitter Band begins in the mid 1960s. Read Full Biography. Buoyed by the massive success of "Goodbye My Love," the Glitter Band selected another soft rocker for their next single, "The Tears I Cried," following through over the next 12 months with the similarly styled "Love in the Sun" and "People Like You, People Like Me." Two further albums, Rock 'n' Roll Dudes and Listen to the Band, were equally courageous, with the group's ambition now so pronounced that they even brushed aside the first signs that their invincibility was cracking: the chart failure of the singles "Alone Again" and "Don't Make Promises." CLICK HERE or Email contact@fortheflycustoms.com to Get In Touch . The Glitter Band spent five years backing up the singer until they split away under Leanders steady tutelage to have their own hits which of course meant that they fell out with the leader of the gang in 1977 and have never spoken to him since then but his ghost is ever present. A major creative departure, "Goodbye My Love" climbed to number two, while the group's abilities as songwriters received another boost when labelmates Hello scored a European hit with a cover of the Glitter Band's own "Game's Up." (wikipedia) The Glitter Band were supporting and it has to be said, that night, they should have been headlining. In 1985, Phipps recorded with Hugh Cornwell playing on the single "One in a Million". The band switched to CBS Records and later Epic Records, and changed their name to The G Band to disassociate themselves from Glitter, but failed to find another hit single. It's a sound that is part of the fabric of British pop culture. On this particular evening one of his charges David Essex, who he was producing at the time, phoned in sick and in the downtime Leander invented the Glitter band sound. Harding, Luke (2000) "Glam rocker loses court fight to keep Glitter from halcyon days". The Glitter Band sound was what attracted me to them back in the day. They were unofficially known as the Glittermen on the first four hit singles by Gary Glitter from 1972 to 1973. Pete Gill detoxed in 2004 after having a problem with alcohol for two years, and is unable to play anymore due to severe arthritis which "has spread to my hands and my legs and my back".[5]. In the long gone Glorias Record Bar in East Kilbride, I chose Angel Face by the Glitter Band. The band Orleans had two drummers. The Glitter Band: The Glitter Band - Hey! Gill was one of the two drummers in The Glitter Band, then formed part of the original line-up of Saxon in 1978. Phipps and Shephard appeared in the Identity Parade line-up on the first episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks, recorded on 28 October 1996. i heard it was Mr Seago. He did lots of different kinds of things.". Gill later spent three years with Motrhead, 1984 to 1987, recording four new tracks for the compilation No Remorse, The Birthday Party and one full album, Orgasmatron. The tabloids ring all the time looking for stories but I have nothing to tell. . It didnt have the heavy brass sound of the previous hits but was still a distinctive Glitter Band record. It was written by Springate, Shephard and Eddie Seago, who also ran the bands management company. Rossall himself had known Leander since the 60s and was asked by the producer to put the Glitter Band together to back up the vocalist when the hits started pouring out and there were tours and Top Of The Pops to be done. Great band, great music. Several of the band had played with Glitter in The Boston Showband (also known as The Bostons) during the 1960s when he was still known as Paul Raven. Whew I had rather forgotten the Glitter band, except with He who shall not be named They were a terrific combo, and its a shame they couldnt really get past glitter but of course, punk aimed at disco, but killed glam, at least for a while. Original Glitter Band bandleader John Rossall died on October 2, 2021, a year after releasing a comeback album, The Last Glam in Town; he was 75 years old. In short, he was a pop genius and should be lauded in the way that Joe Meek is. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. According to John Rossall, only he, Shephard and Leonard featured on the single, together with Brian Jones on sax. In December 2013, John Rossall released a new single, a Glitter styled version of the classic "White Christmas". no.4 in the UK charts, remaining there for 10 weeks. The brass included trombone as well as sax. The band only played with Glitter for two years before going alone and scoring a string of top ten hits. 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I was so in love with Gerry RIP. CUSTOM COMMISSIONS NOW OPEN! They originally came together in 1972, following Glitter's own breakthrough with the hit "Rock and Roll." Their cover of The Exciters Tell Him (previously covered in the UK by Billie Davis) was actually pressed up as a single by their record company, but the band, who didnt want to be known as a covers act, demanded they be destroyed. The G Band departed Bell Records for CBS and recorded an album called Paris Match, which despite being marketed with two different covers failed to do anything. For me the Glitter band were more influential than the Beatles. In August they had a top 20 summer hit with the non-album song, Love In The Sun. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going. Dominic, 54, who joined the group in the late 1990s, said: Our records are not played on the radio any more.. The potential is there and the talent is there- could the Glitter Band be about to use rock & roll to excise the ghost of Gary Glitter the bacofoil god with feet of clay? Brown, Mick (1985) "Days of Whine and Poses". 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Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. He was also influenced by Osibisas rhythms. The next year, Phipps played with the Legendary Purple Helmets a Stranglers offshoot. . NO AIRPLAY: Pete, on drums, with Glitter before the split in 1974, AXE MEN: Pete and Dominic of The Glitter Band. There were other choices but Gary was hungry to have a hit. Where Have You Been is quite an epic Beatle-esque tune and although the arrangement is now a little dated, its still a decent effort. However, in 1981, they reconvened with a little heard single, Until The Next Time. Excerpts from an exclusive interview with drummer Pete Phipps which appeared in the November 2019 issue of the Beat. Between 1992 and 1996, whilst remaining in the Glitter Band, Phipps joined Denim, a band formed by Lawrence Hayward. Ultimately, the Glitter Band became almost as successful, and certainly as well-known, as Gary Glitter himself. 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