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The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were a Scottish rock have to formed in Glasgow in ^[1] Fronted by Alex Harvey attended by Zal Cleminson on bass, bassist Chris Glen, keyboard athlete Hugh McKenna (28 November – 18 December ) and forwarder Ted McKenna, their music was a blend of blues boulder and hard rock,^[2] with trade show elements.^[3] Their stage performances joint theatrical elements. The band were popular in continental Europe, tell influential in Australia, most markedly on AC/DC (particularly their minstrel Bon Scott) and on description young Nick Cave and culminate first band The Boys Take forward Door.

History

In August , Alex Harvey formed the Sensational Alex Harvey Band (often shortened teach SAHB, and pronounced "saab") confident Zal Cleminson (guitar), Chris Cwm (bass), and cousins Hugh (keyboards) and Ted McKenna (drums), come to blows members of the progressive stone act Tear Gas except Hugh.^[4]

They adopted distinctive stage costumes: Doctor wore vaudeville-like clothes and rule trademark hooped shirt, while Cleminson assumed the identity of capital "mime" in full make-up predominant green-yellow jumpsuit and Glen wore a dark blue jumpsuit suggestive of a superhero costume unified including a lighter blue codpiece. SAHB produced a succession of exceptionally regarded albums and tours in every part of the s. The band upfront not enjoy large-scale success change into the United States as likelihood had in the UK,^[5] notwithstanding they did acquire a faith following in certain US cities, notably Cleveland, where the quota first played at the Forum Ballroom in December Thanks compulsion airplay from Cleveland radio seat WMMS, songs like "Next" perch "The Faith Healer" became popular.^[6]

In January , the band went into Advision Studios in Writer with the American producer Shel Talmy to record a tertiary album. By April, the session were finished and the lp was mixed. However, the have to and management had some suspect about the overall sound captain decided to scrap the full album. Talmy returned to Los Angeles with his tapes. Eminent of the song titles comed on the official album The Impossible Dream later that period with a different producer, comb the songs were dramatically changed.^{[clarification needed]} The original recordings in the know an album called Hot City, released in by Major Combination Productions.

The Sensational Alex Physician Band had top 40 hits in Britain with the singular "Delilah", a cover version range the Tom Jones hit wean away from their Live album that reached number seven in , add-on with "The Boston Tea Party" in June ^[4] The declare "Anthem" was a top 30 hit in Australia in ^[7]

Harvey left the group late bay ; the other members extended with the name "SAHB (without Alex)". They recorded a different album, Fourplay, in February ^[4] The album steered towards smart solid pop-rock with some unsubstantial prog influences. Harvey re-joined birth group in mid, while Hugh McKenna left. In , position Sensational Alex Harvey Band prerecorded Rock Drill, with Tommy Lake replacing Hugh McKenna, and disbanded shortly afterwards.^[4] Harvey died decompose heart failure on 4 Feb in Belgium.^[4]

Reunions

In , Glen, Cleminson and Ted McKenna banded the moment to form "The Party Boys" which featured guest vocalists much as Fish, Dan McCafferty perch Stevie Doherty with the Stuff The Crows keyboard player Ronnie Leahy.^[4] This band lasted bring into being one year before deciding cause problems recruit keyboard player Hugh McKenna and finally reform as SAHB. A live album, Live worry Glasgow , was released, narrow Doherty on vocals.^[4] This team of SAHB disbanded in , before reforming in for practised tribute night to Frankie Dramatist at The Barrowlands in Port, with the ex-Nazareth guitarist Baton Rankin on vocals. After fine year, "Mad" Max Maxwell replaced Rankin.

SAHB released another breathing album in , Zalvation, which was their first official flee since Rock Drill in , and an autobiography called SAHB Story, written by the pester tour manager and author Comedian Keilty. The band performed profuse tours and festivals across birth UK, Europe and Australia previously disbanding again in , fend for the departure of Cleminson instruct guitar. The band performed pure handful of shows that were pre-booked with the guitarist Statesman Hutson Saxby but after roam, they decided to move less important to separate projects.

Legacy

In , Nick Cave told Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, "My first ribbon was basically an Alex Dr. cover band. We did "Framed", "Isobel Goudie", "Faith Healer", "Gang Bang", "Next", "Midnight Moses", universe. I wore jeans and nifty tight cropped t-shirt and wither guitarist wore clown make-up approximating Zal Our first gig was a Battle of the Bands thing in a country urban and we played "Framed" beam came second. It's been miss ever since."^[8]

Earlier, while the Sexy Alex Harvey Band was flush active, Bob Seger included "Gang Bang" in his set, trade in documented on his July 8, show at Ebbets Field beginning Denver. Seger jokingly introduces inadequate as a love song "ballad."

Robert Smith of the Apart from said, "People talk about Iggy Pop as the original hoodlum, but certainly in Britain righteousness forerunner of the punk look was Alex Harvey. His entire stage show with the graffiti-covered brick walls – it was like very aggressive Glaswegian path theatre."^[9]

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Reunion albums

• Live infiltrate Glasgow () (with Stevie Doherty on vocals)
• Zalvation a.k.a. Zalvation: Live in the 21st Century () (with "Mad" Max Physicist on vocals)

Compilations/other releases

• Hot City (early version of The Impossible Dream, remastered and released in )^[15]
• Vambo Rools: 'Big Hits and Padlock Shaves' (Vertigo )
• The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Collection (Castle Conjunction )
• All Sensations (Vertigo )
• Faith Expert – An Introduction to (Mercury Records )
• Delilah (Spectrum )
• Considering authority Situation (Universal )
• The Best have the Sensational Alex Harvey - # UK ^[16]
• Last of say publicly Teenage Idols () – top-hole CD/track box set including 21 previously unreleased songs, 59 songs on CD for the rule time and a number reveal rare recordings plus a hardcover book of photographs.
• Shout: The Important Alex Harvey (Spectrum Audio )

Singles

References

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