One of the identifying features of the glitter bands of the early Seventies was the drumming. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Unfortunately, although the band had moved on, their fans hadn't. It's a sound that is so distinctive that it causes the Pavlovian exhortation: "Ah! 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. 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? Prior to leaving, Rossall featured with his bandmates in a plot free 1975 film, Never Too Young To Rock, which is only worth watching for their live performances and a couple of seconds of their painful acting, which is still better than most performances from the actual actors in the film. and enjoys writing about music when working full-time doesnt get in the way. Are the Glitter Band capable of making rock n roll part3? The Gary Glitter Band certainly weren't the first rock band to incorporate two drummers. Very good Joyce thank you. Read Full Biography. We're the musicians that played on parts of the records. 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Unfortunately, cover versions outweigh the much better original songs on the album. Your email address will not be published. The Glitter Band are a glam rock band from England, who initially worked as Gary Glitter's backing band under that name from 1973, when they then began releasing records of their own. Could this be the most unlikely comeback in pop history? The line-up was John Rossall (trombone & the bands musical director), Gerry Shephard (lead guitar & vocals), John Springate (bass & vocals), Harvey Ellison (saxophone), & keeping thumping tight time at the back the twin drummers Tony Leonard & Pete Phipps. They have existed on and off since with various line-ups, and there are currently two bands featuring original members who use the name. NO AIRPLAY: Pete, on drums, with Glitter before the split in 1974, AXE MEN: Pete and Dominic of The Glitter Band. 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. Joyce tweets. Saw the Glitter Band at Margates Dreamland Ballroom when they were at their peak. The Glitter Band began its life as the backing group for now-disgraced rocker Gary Glitter, but soon established an identity of its own in the glam rock landscape. And while the band's original sound was firmly cut in the style of their namesake, by the end of their career, they'd developed into a wholly original and utterly captivating act in their own right. And there are two drummers on some major jazz records such as Miles's Bitches Brew or John Coltrane's Meditations. (Hello also scored with another Hey-era staple, a cover of the Exciters' "Tell Him. John Rossall "The Glitter Band" started life in 1972 as backing and session musicians for Gary Glitter, providing the backing music not only for Gary's chartbusters but also providing 'The Leader' with the unique powerful, and gutsy big beat for his concerts around the world. Shephard and Springate recorded a single under the moniker Air Traffic Control, but it got lost among the punk frenzy. Shephard and former drummer Tony Leonard formed one band, whilst Phipps continued to perform with his own band. After learning to play drums, piano and guitar, his musical career took off at the age of 18, he has worked continuously since that time for a wide range of bands and artists. Pete said Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, even cut the band from a fi lm made about him. It got the full Leander production treatment, bringing the brass section and double drum sound to the fore, adding in the distinctive hey! chant. It was the twin drum's combined with Gerry's glitter 'Star' guitar with its . The Glitterband certainly did use 2 drummers. And Rossall has gone on record to say if Leander could play brass neither he nor Ellison would have featured either. The Glitter Band regrouped under their old name in 1980, around the same time as Gary Glitter himself moved back into focus. He was also influenced by Osibisas rhythms. For tickets see the Alfie Bird website or Ticketweb. Back copies can be ordered via the website. Bands With Two Drummers. I generally had terrible taste in music when I was a young child, favouring Donny Osmond and the Bay City Rollers, but I got my very first foray into a lifelong habit of buying records absolutely spot on. VBTS May 22, 2005 #7 Jean-Baptiste Clamence @ May 23 2005, 01:15 AM wrote: This article on a British drummer is a stub. A fabric that has been torn by Paul Gadd's fall from grace. 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. It again features the heavy Glitter sound and was another Rossall/Shephard composition. It was written by Springate, Shephard and Eddie Seago, who also ran the bands management company. Gill was one of the two drummers in The Glitter Band, then formed part of the original line-up of Saxon in 1978. Leander produced all of the Glitter Bands albums. However, I think the Glitter Band version is far better. He was trying to do a Johnny Congas type of thing and it developed from there. Ive picked Games Up from this LP as it was also recorded by Hello and, although their version wasnt a hit, it is considered a great glam tune. [4] After years of absence Gill reunited with his former Saxon colleagues in a new band, named Son of a Bitch with bassist Steve Dawson and guitarist Graham Oliver. [9][10] Rossall was subsequently not allowed to use Glitter Band as part of his band's name, but was allowed to advertise his historical connections to the band. In the long gone Glorias Record Bar in East Kilbride, I chose Angel Face by the Glitter Band. It was followed by "Just for You" and "Let's Get Together Again," both of which kept the group in the Top Ten, while their debut album, Hey, reached number 13 despite being comprised of little more than reprises of their hits. 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. The Glitter Band play Alfie Birds and The Oobleck, The Custard Factory, Birmingham on March 5. It came as a total shock.. Phipps currently performs worldwide as The Glitter Band playing a variety of venues up and down the UK and on the Continent. Shes been buying records for over 40 years and going to gigs since the 70s (just!) 1979 saw Sheppard and drummer Pete Phipps hook up with former Sparks/Jet keyboard player Peter Oxendale for the album Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, credited to Oxendale & Sheppard and released in the U.S. only. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Another single appeared in 1982, a Shephard and Springate song called Heartbeat To Heartache. Hiro_Noodles. 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. 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." This edition of the Glitter Band released a single in 2016 featuring new recordings of "Let's Get Together Again" and "People Like You and People Like Me." Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Sadly Gerry Shephard passed away on May 6th 2003. Joyce tweets @northseacrashes and co-hosts @PsychoSundae featuring the best psych and garage tunes chosen by followers. Also included is a rather ill-advised cover of the Rolling Stones Sympathy For The Devil their first cover version since the Hey! Between 1992 and 1996, whilst remaining in the Glitter Band, Phipps joined Denim, a band formed by Lawrence Hayward. In December 1975, their third album Listen to the Band, saw Phipps for the first time on lead vocals on the self-penned "My First Mistake". One Artist - One Song. To find out more, click here. With his first major concert tour looming, Glitter and producer/co-conspirator Mike Leander needed a full-time backing band for live work. Evidence that the Glitter Band were capable of meeting greater challenges than the Glitter sound normally set was delivered in early 1975 with their fourth single, the soft rock ballad "Goodbye My Love." Changing direction, Phipps first joined Ex-Directory a jazz rock band where he first met Vic Martin (who would later, with Pete, join the Eurythmics); this was then followed by a short period with a London based punk rock band called The Secret. A year later, he toured with the Elgins. Before we went on the room was empty but suddenly it filled up and people were going crazy. In 1973, Rossall approached Leander with the suggestion that the band record some material without Glitter. Thank you Joyce. I read in one of glitters bios, he really did only regard them as employees the piss tho? This was the start of a time when The Glitter Band toured the world amasing millions of record sales. We didnt know how people were going to react. It was to no avail as the single failed to crack to the top 50. "It was nerve wracking. Thanks for your article, the Glitter Band really and truly deserved so much more recognition,they alone were brilliant musicians and writers. He then rejoined Gary Glitter for UK, Middle East and US tours. Rossall and Shephard came up with Angel Face. He and Phipps also featured in the Identity Parade round in the first episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks in 1996. as "disco orientated rock", and by Nina Myskow in The Sun as a band to watch for as "Their music shows talent, menace, originality and brains. Playing hard-stomping glam rock and roll with singalong choruses aswell as more straightforward romantic pop, the Glitter Group were named because of their association with glam idol Gary Glitter. According to John Rossall, only he, Shephard and Leonard featured on the single, together with Brian Jones on sax. He played all the instruments himself till he came up with the dark and strange rock & roll of 'Rock n roll part 1 and 2'. "The Glitter Band" started life in 1972 as backing and session musicians for Gary Glitter, providing the backing music not only for Gary's chartbusters but also providing 'The Leader' with the unique powerful, and gutsy big beat for his concerts around the world. Vid by me - enjoy! 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. He said: We are suffering from the fallout and bad press because of his actions. 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." 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 . Co-written by Shephard, Rossall and Eddie Seago, its a fantastic throwback to their distinctive sound. Perrone, Pierre (2003) "Obituary: Gerry Shephard; Glitter Band guitarist and songwriter". In 1987 he toured as a replacement in Culture Club in France and Iceland. The Glitter band, though, are trapped by history. Phipps was a founder member of The Glitter Band (originally known as The Glittermen), who started as Gary Glitter's backing band, and went on to success in their own right, having six top ten singles in the UK in the mid-1970s. Unfortunately, although the band had moved on, their fans hadn't. If Ive whetted your appetite for this most underrated and somewhat forgotten 70s band, you can buy a Box Set containing their four albums. The Glitter Band have had enough of being tarred with the same brush as their former 'Leader' and are recording a new album. By 1977, the band had started to fall apart. To find out more, click here. Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus. But original drummer Pete Phipps and bandmate Dominic Rodgers say their songs recorded separately from Glitters are still not played on the radio. The Glitter Men, as the group was originally known, was built around an idea that Glitter and Leander had first experimented with during the mid-'60s: a sprawling combo whose sound and visuals were based upon a core of two drummers and two saxophonists. 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 Glittermen were renamed The Glitter Band and established a separate identity consisting of a six-member lineup Gerry Shephard (lead guitar/lead vocals), John Springate (bass/lead vocals ), Pete Phipps (drums and keyboards), Tony Leonard (drums), John Rossall (trombone) Harvey Ellison (saxophone). "Mike was brilliant, he played on every track - we just came in and did the brass parts. The funky Watch The Show is another Harvey Ellison composition and the only one which he sang lead on. Springate retired from the band in 2019, and in August 2020 Phipps, the only remaining original member, released his first solo album entitled Wherever You Are. There is a band on Back From The Grave 4 called Beep Beep & The Roadrunners who were using two drummers back in '62/'63. "I've got loads of ideas for songs, we want to make something heavy, really tribal, really do something with our sound," he explains before starting to sing one track in the bar - it sounds fantastic. They were branching out towards a more soul and funk sound which was probably not the best move with punk bubbling under. The band Orleans had two drummers. Their choice of bandleader also reached back to that earlier era -- baritone sax player John Rossall had previously played with Leander's own eponymous orchestra, and with Glitter in the subsequent Boston International. The band eventually announced they had broken up. 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. 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. Great band, great music. It was because he was easily available. Gill was one of the two drummers in The Glitter Band, then formed part of the original line-up of Saxon in 1978. GARY Glitters former bandmates have spoken of their 20 years in the wilderness since the singer was unmasked as a paedophile. The Glitter Band - ROCK ON! Peter William Phipps (born 5 August 1951 in Clapham, South London)[1] is a rock drummer, singer and songwriter known for his work with Gary Glitter, The Glitter Band, and later Eurythmics, XTC and Denim. Please read all descriptions thoroughly before purchasing. Drummers Pete Phipps and Tony Leonard eventually completed the line up. Petridis, Alexis (2006) "Film & Music: Rock & pop reviews: Pop reissue: Denim Back in Denim", Band biography on official fan club website, The Official Glitter Band Website - The Glitter Band, The Official Website for Pete Phipps and The Glitter Band, John Rossall's Official Website + Detailed History of the Boston Showband/Glitter Band, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Glitter_Band&oldid=1137106185, Pete Phipps drummer, keyboardist (19731979, 1985present), Dominic Rodgers guitarist (2001present), John Rossall trombonist, saxophonist (19731974); died 2021, Harvey Ellison saxophonist, guitarist, pianist, backing vocals (19731977); died 2017, Gerry Shephard guitarist, lead and backing vocals (1973-1979, 19812001); died 2003, John Springate bassist, lead and backing vocals (19731979, 19811987, 20092019), Tony Leonard drummer (19731977, 19811985), Eddy Spence keyboardist (19811987, 20092019), This page was last edited on 2 February 2023, at 20:59. 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