Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus. Support tQ's work by becoming a subscriber and enjoy the benefits of bonus essays, podcasts and exclusively-commissioned new music. Springate and Phipps tour as one incarnation of The Glitter Band. Another single appeared in 1982, a Shephard and Springate song called Heartbeat To Heartache. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. John Rossall died on 2 October 2021, at the age of 75.[14]. Devotion) of Spacer fame. Rossall is even talking of making a new album. He then rejoined Gary Glitter for UK, Middle East and US tours. Peter Gill (born 9 June 1951) is an English former heavy metal drummer, formerly a member of The Glitter Band, Saxon and Motrhead. Originally Gary Glitter's backing band, these poppy glam musicians became stars in their own right with an eclectic pop sound. 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. i heard it was Mr Seago. Shortly afterwards, bubblegum glam group and Bell Records label mates Hello recorded their own version of Tell Him using the Glitter Bands arrangement and took it into the UK top ten. 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). In 2014 the song "Angel Face" was included on the soundtrack of the hit Spanish film The Face of an Angel. Read Full Biography. Dominic, 54, who joined the group in the late 1990s, said: Our records are not played on the radio any more.. An utterly un-Glitter-like set, it was characterized by a truly audacious cover of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil." He recorded Back in Denim (1992 and Denim on Ice (1996). (Hello also scored with another Hey-era staple, a cover of the Exciters' "Tell Him.") AXE MEN: Pete and Dominic of The Glitter Band (Image: PH) Something went wrong, please try again later. They blew him off the stage. The band provided By 1977, the band had started to fall apart. The brass included trombone as well as sax. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 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. 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 . Excerpts from an exclusive interview with drummer Pete Phipps which appeared in the November 2019 issue of the Beat. A year later, he toured with the Elgins. 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. They were branching out towards a more soul and funk sound which was probably not the best move with punk bubbling under. The Glitter beat! In 1976, as Gary Glitter announced his retirement, the Glitter Band cut their last sonic links with the old sound. 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. 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." After leaving school in 1969 he joined Black Velvet, a soul/funk band tours, recording and radio shows. Shephard and Springate were the main songwriters, but Phipps and Ellison also contributed songs. The Glitter Band are a glam rock band from England, who. 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. In the 70s Leander created the Glitter Band and one of the decades biggest pop stars Gary Glitter. It came as a total shock.. 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. U.K. Glam Rock Top 10. haj1909. Sadly Gerry Shephard passed away on May 6th 2003. Harding, Luke (2000) "Glam rocker loses court fight to keep Glitter from halcyon days". To find out more, click here. Switching . [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. nick_honest. Are the Glitter Band capable of making rock n roll part3? Phipps also continued to record with Glitter Band colleagues pursuing solo identities, such as with John Springate recording an album together in John's own Rock Star Studio and playing drums on the album Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, by Gerry Shephard and Peter Oxendale. He toured in the US and in the UK. 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." However, in 1981, they reconvened with a little heard single, Until The Next Time. He was trying to do a Johnny Congas type of thing and it developed from there. But original drummer Pete Phipps and bandmate Dominic Rodgers say their songs recorded separately from Glitters are still not played on the radio. Its a fantastic record which has really stood the test of time definitely a glam rock classic. The Glitter Band insist they knew nothing of the shamed glam rockers sex crimes, which they say have unfairly tarnished their reputation. The Glitter Band released their debut LP, called Hey! Mike used to get in the studio on his own with the engineer and play the drums for 20 minutes trying out different drum things and then say: 'Right, roll the tape. to the engineer and then record a section that he would then he would make a loop out of and copy it onto the 24 track. 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." 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. [2], When Gary Glitter's first single "Rock and Roll Parts 1 and 2" became a number 2 hit in the UK, his manager Mike Leander realised that he would need a backing band and contacted John Rossall who was then the musical director of the Boston Showband. 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 next year, Phipps played with the Legendary Purple Helmets a Stranglers offshoot. The Glitter Band: The Glitter Band - Hey! Through 1983 and 1984 he was a member of The Eurythmics. However, they had their final chart hit early in 1976 with the reggae disco-tinged People Like You, People Like Me and the instrumental, funky B-side, Makes You Blind, written by Shephard, Leander and Phipps; their only US success, becoming a bona fide club hit and also reaching the lower end of the US Hot 100. Who knew the Glitter Band could do disco? 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. no.4 in the UK charts, remaining there for 10 weeks. John Springate went into record production in the 90s, becoming involved in the Hi-Energy dance scene and recording Nicki Frenchs hit cover of Total Eclipse Of The Heart. Between 1992 and 1996, whilst remaining in the Glitter Band, Phipps joined Denim, a band formed by Lawrence Hayward. With Rossall away, John Springate and Gerry Shephard took over leadership of the Glitter Band. He called Rossall, who took him up on the offer, on the understanding that at some point his band would get to record their own material. 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. The Glitter Band - ROCK ON! It again features the heavy Glitter sound and was another Rossall/Shephard composition. There were other choices but Gary was hungry to have a hit. Jamie Muir was a percussionist (although he occasionally played a mini-drum set, as some other percussionists like Ray Cooper or Ed Mann sometimes did). [3] Shephard and Phipps had previously guested on Denim's Back In Denim (1992).[11]. Glitter Band - Angel Face (1974) Bertierocks1 14.9K subscribers 924 145K views 10 years ago Back to the 70s! In 1986, Phipps performed on Zipper an album written by Roger Chapman. He said: Gary was driving in limousines and flying first class and we were staying in bed and breakfasts and travelling in a Transit. Albums include Hey!, Disco Discharge. People come to the gigs and they understand that the band and the songs are quite separate from the whole situation.". It met with instant success and reached. Required fields are marked *. 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. 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. Back copies can be ordered via the website. He did lots of different kinds of things.". document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. But, once inside and reveling within the meaty stomps and playful heartbreaks that were the band's raison d'etre once they were away from kingpin Gary Glitter, Rock 'n' Roll Dudes emerges at least as much fun as its predecessor and, in places, even more . It was because he was easily available. The Glitter Band have had enough of being tarred with the same brush as their former 'Leader' and are recording a new album. It was the twin drum's combined with Gerry's glitter 'Star' guitar with its . Rossall adds: "The whole Glitter sound started on a Mike Leander instrumental. In the late 80s while I was studying at Portsmouth Polytechnic I went to see Gary Glitter play at the Guildhall. Phipps toured with a variety of 80s bands including XTC and Eurythmics before teaming up with Shephard again in the 90s. I imagine somebody a bit more famous was doing it before them. It has a bit of a Starsky and Hutch theme tune vibe going on! Through 1998 and 1999, Phipps had further shows with The Glitter Band and appearances with The King Penguins, a spin-off from the Glitter Band. Back to the 70s! In 1976, they returned with Dont Make Promises (You Cant Keep) and started calling themselves The G Band in the hope of being taken more seriously. Not content with applying looped rhythm tracks to teenage dance music (something you are more likely to associate with house music some twenty years later) Leander wrote these yob anthems and played all the instruments himself; quite some feat. It also inspired me to write this article. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. That two drum sound was thrilling. It quickly reached No.4 in the charts, outselling Gary Glitter in the process. What people miss out on is the fact the whole Glitter thing comes from Mike Leander. They had a top 10 hit with The Tears I Cried which eventually featured on their next LP. The music group originally came jointly in 1972, pursuing Glitter's very own breakthrough using the strike "Stone.". In 1981, the group released a new single, "Until the Next Time," maintaining a steady stream of further releases over the next five years. And there are two drummers on some major jazz records such as Miles's Bitches Brew or John Coltrane's Meditations. . Gadd, 71, was jailed in 1999 for child porn offences. It got the full Leander production treatment, bringing the brass section and double drum sound to the fore, adding in the distinctive hey! chant. Shephard got picked out; Phipps did not. 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." [6][7] He was also a member of Lawrence Hayward's post-Felt band Denim, which has been described as "self-consciously ironic glitter-pop revivalist project", playing on the 1992 album Back in Denim and the 1996 album Denim on Ice. Really brill piece paying tribute to a hugely underrated band that were never given the credit they deserved. The band include some Glitter songs in their set but Dominic said music producer Mike Leander was the real genius behind the Glitter sound. Nowadays they have become music pariahs as the tabloids froth themselves into indignation over the sad and disturbing sexual tastes of their convicted paedophile former front man Gary Glitter. 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. 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Sometimes when the odds are stacked up this high the creative juices can go crazy. It was reissued in 1985, again to no avail. Bell Records signed the Glitter Band as a new artist, and Angel Face was released on 1st March 1974. 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. 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. The Glitter Band regrouped under their old name in 1980, around the same time as Gary Glitter himself moved back into focus. However, I think the Glitter Band version is far better. And Rossall has gone on record to say if Leander could play brass neither he nor Ellison would have featured either. Apple Inc. Since the band split up there have been two Glitter bands - one led by Rossall and Ellison, the other by former guitarist Shephard and Phipps, the band's drummer. One of the identifying features of the glitter bands of the early Seventies was the drumming. We didnt know how people were going to react. Get the best celeb gossip with the Daily Star Showbiz newsletter. 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. It got no airplay and failed to chart. Oh yes - Adam & The Ants did, and likewise the ghastly Sigue Sigue Sputnik. He was last year caged for 16 years over a string of child sex crimes. The Glitter Band sound was what attracted me to them back in the day. In total, The Glitter Band had seven top 20 hits in the mid-1970s, including Angel Face which reached number four and Goodbye My Love, which went to number two in the charts. Hiro_Noodles. 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