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Andy Scott
Author_Martin Popoff
Ballroom Blitz
Brian Connolly
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Desolation Boulevard
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Fox on the Run
Give Us a Wink
Mick Tucker
Off the Record
Steve Priest
Sweet Fanny Adams
Product details
- ISBN 9781915246691
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Wymer Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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They were the heaviest of the gender-bending glam bands in Britain in the '70s, with smash hit after smash hit and a stronghold in Germany of all places.
Soon Sweet-Brian Connolly, Andy Scott, Steve Priest and Mick Tucker-would extricate themselves from their producer puppeteers and make a clutch of classic albums still revered today.
Desolation Boulevard, Sweet Fanny Adams, Give Us a Wink and Off the Record... these records formed the core before disaster struck, with lead singer Connolly falling prey to the demon drink and dying from it slowly over the following 20 years. Mick and Steve are now gone too, with Andy Scott being the last man standing from the UK institution that brought us "Ballroom Blitz," "Action" and "Fox on the Run."
Come hear the band's singular and bizarre start as pop tarts, with one of rock's most revered drummers in Mick, and how it all went wrong in a blizzard of booze, cocaine and busted relationships. But also, in the spirit of the book's subtitle, come explore the band's plethora of singles, non-LP B-sides, hard rock album classics and otherwise weirdly released songs as Martin plays DJ, taking you to every corner of the band's crunchy catalogue blessed by the most angelic harmonies ever committed to virgin vinyl.
"Everybody wants a piece of the action!"
Soon Sweet-Brian Connolly, Andy Scott, Steve Priest and Mick Tucker-would extricate themselves from their producer puppeteers and make a clutch of classic albums still revered today.
Desolation Boulevard, Sweet Fanny Adams, Give Us a Wink and Off the Record... these records formed the core before disaster struck, with lead singer Connolly falling prey to the demon drink and dying from it slowly over the following 20 years. Mick and Steve are now gone too, with Andy Scott being the last man standing from the UK institution that brought us "Ballroom Blitz," "Action" and "Fox on the Run."
Come hear the band's singular and bizarre start as pop tarts, with one of rock's most revered drummers in Mick, and how it all went wrong in a blizzard of booze, cocaine and busted relationships. But also, in the spirit of the book's subtitle, come explore the band's plethora of singles, non-LP B-sides, hard rock album classics and otherwise weirdly released songs as Martin plays DJ, taking you to every corner of the band's crunchy catalogue blessed by the most angelic harmonies ever committed to virgin vinyl.
"Everybody wants a piece of the action!"
At approximately 7900 (with over 7000 appearing in his books), Martin has unofficially written more record reviews than anybody in the history of music writing across all genres. Additionally, Martin has penned 75 books on hard rock, heavy metal, classic rock and record collecting. He was Editor in Chief of the now retired Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, Canada's foremost heavy metal publication in print for fourteen years, and has also contributed to Revolver, Guitar World, Goldmine, Record Collector, bravewords.com, lollipop.com and hardradio.com. Martin has been a regular contractor to Banger Films, having worked on the award-winning documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, the eleven-episode Metal Evolution, and the ten-episode Rock Icons, both for VH1 Classic. Martin currently resides in Toronto and can be reached through martinp@inforamp.net or martinpopoff.com.
