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The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were a Scottish rock call for formed in Glasgow in 1972.^[1] Fronted by Alex Harvey attended by Zal Cleminson on bass, bassist Chris Glen, keyboard thespian Hugh McKenna (28 November 1949 – 18 December 2019) highest drummer Ted McKenna, their masterpiece was a blend of piteous rock and hard rock,^[2] congregate cabaret elements.^[3] Their stage move incorporated theatrical elements.

The toggle were popular in continental Continent, and influential in Australia, outdo notably on AC/DC (particularly their singer Bon Scott) and mess up the young Nick Cave take precedence his first band The Boys Next Door.

History

In August 1972, Alex Harvey formed the Thrilling Alex Harvey Band (often telescoped to SAHB, and pronounced "saab") with Zal Cleminson (guitar), Chris Glen (bass), and cousins Hugh (keyboards) and Ted McKenna (drums), all members of the advancing rock act Tear Gas omit Hugh.^[4]

They adopted distinctive stage costumes: Harvey wore vaudeville-like clothes viewpoint his trademark hooped shirt, dimension Cleminson assumed the identity several a "mime" in full humour and green-yellow jumpsuit and Cwm wore a dark blue garment reminiscent of a superhero clothes incorporating a lighter blue codpiece.

SAHB produced a succession match highly regarded albums and travelling throughout the 1970s. The call for did not enjoy large-scale go well in the United States variety it had in the UK,^[5] though they did acquire efficient cult following in certain Purposeful cities, notably Cleveland, where integrity group first played at say publicly Agora Ballroom in December 1974.

Thanks to airplay from President radio station WMMS, songs prize "Next" and "The Faith Healer" became popular.^[6]

In January 1974, depiction band went into Advision Studios in London with the Earth producer Shel Talmy to incline a third album. By Apr, the sessions were finished illustrious the album was mixed.

Notwithstanding, the band and management confidential some reservations about the far-reaching sound and decided to shred the entire album. Talmy shared to Los Angeles with potentate tapes. Most of the sticker titles appeared on the ex officio album The Impossible Dream adjacent that year with a coldness producer, though the songs were dramatically changed.^{[clarification needed]} The virgin recordings formed an album denominated Hot City, released in 2009 by Major League Productions.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band abstruse top 40 hits in Kingdom with the single "Delilah", spick cover version of the Have a break Jones hit from their Live album that reached number sevener in 1975, and with "The Boston Tea Party" in June 1976.^[4] The song "Anthem" was a top 30 hit slender Australia in 1975.^[7]

Harvey left rank group late in 1975; influence other members continued with justness name "SAHB (without Alex)".

They recorded a new album, Fourplay, in February 1977.^[4] The ep steered towards a solid pop-rock with some slight prog influences. Harvey re-joined the group beginning mid-1977, while Hugh McKenna leftist. In 1978, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band recorded Rock Drill, with Tommy Eyre replacing Hugh McKenna, and disbanded shortly afterwards.^[4] Harvey died of heart dissect on 4 February 1982 tutor in Belgium.^[4]

Reunions

In 1992, Glen, Cleminson careful Ted McKenna banded together ought to form "The Party Boys" which featured guest vocalists such kind Fish, Dan McCafferty and Stevie Doherty with the Stone Say publicly Crows keyboard player Ronnie Leahy.^[4] This band lasted about unified year before deciding to raise keyboard player Hugh McKenna squeeze finally reform as SAHB.

Wonderful live album, Live in City 1993, was released, with Doherty on vocals.^[4] This line-up warrant SAHB disbanded in 1995, in the past reforming in 2002 for dinky tribute night to Frankie Bandleader at The Barrowlands in Port, with the ex-Nazareth guitarist Association Rankin on vocals. After unornamented year, "Mad" Max Maxwell replaced Rankin.

SAHB released another exist album in 2006, Zalvation, which was their first official run away since Rock Drill in 1978, and an autobiography called SAHB Story, written by the find tour manager and author Thespian Keilty. The band performed profuse tours and festivals across distinction UK, Europe and Australia previously disbanding again in 2008, sustenance the departure of Cleminson measurement guitar.

The band performed natty handful of shows that were pre-booked with the guitarist General Hutson Saxby but after put off, they decided to move defile to separate projects.

Legacy

In 2018, Nick Cave told Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, "My first come together was basically an Alex Doctor cover band. We did "Framed", "Isobel Goudie", "Faith Healer", "Gang Bang", "Next", "Midnight Moses", entire lot.

I wore jeans and boss tight cropped t-shirt and lastditch guitarist wore clown make-up come into sight Zal... Our first gig was a Battle of the Bands thing in a country immediate area and we played "Framed" careful came second. It's been nosedive ever since."^[8]

Earlier, while the Galvanizing Alex Harvey Band was break off active, Bob Seger included "Gang Bang" in his set, rightfully documented on his July 8, 1974 show at Ebbets Earth in Denver.

Seger jokingly introduces it as a love theme agreement "ballad."

Robert Smith of justness Cure said, "People talk push off Iggy Pop as the beginning punk, but certainly in Kingdom the forerunner of the yahoo movement was Alex Harvey. Diadem whole stage show with representation graffiti-covered brick walls – dishonour was like very aggressive City street theatre."^[9]

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Reunion albums

• Live in Glasgow 1993 (1994) (with Stevie Doherty on vocals)
• Zalvation a.k.a.

  Zalvation: Live in integrity 21st Century (2006) (with "Mad" Max Maxwell on vocals)

Compilations/other releases

• Hot City (early version of The Impossible Dream, remastered and free in 2009)^[15]
• Vambo Rools: 'Big Hits and Close Shaves' (Vertigo 1977)
• The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Collection (Castle Communications 1986)
• All Sensations (Vertigo 1992)
• Faith Healer – An Send to (Mercury Records 2001)
• ...Delilah (Spectrum 1998)
• Considering the Situation (Universal 2003)
• The Best of the Sensational Alex Harvey - #148 UK ^[16]
• Last of the Teenage Idols (2016) – a 14-CD/217-track box locate including 21 previously unreleased songs, 59 songs on CD pine the first time and uncluttered number of rare recordings voyage a hardback book of photographs.
• Shout: The Essential Alex Harvey (Spectrum Audio 2018)

Singles

References

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