The Glitter Band - ROCK ON! The band, unofficially known as the Glittermen while working with the singer between 1972 and 1974, barely spoke to him, said Pete, 64. 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. In August they had a top 20 summer hit with the non-album song, Love In The Sun. The Glitter Band: The Glitter Band - Hey! In 1973, Rossall approached Leander with the suggestion that the band record some material without Glitter. We never socialised.. Tony Leonard has now retired from the music business. [1], The Glitter Band had seven UK Top 20 hit singles in the mid-1970s, and three hit albums. The decision to launch the Glitter Band as a recording act in its own right was made in late 1973. The band eventually announced they had broken up. [1] Read Joyces other posts on Cocteau Twins, Shangri-Las, Kate Bush. He said: We are suffering from the fallout and bad press because of his actions. The Glitter Band had seven UK Top 20 hit singles in the mid-1970s, and three hit albums. Joyce Gibson is a lifelong music fan, inherited from her dad and now passed on to her niece. We're the musicians that played on parts of the records. Another single appeared in 1982, a Shephard and Springate song called Heartbeat To Heartache. 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. In 1985, Phipps recorded with Hugh Cornwell playing on the single "One in a Million". 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. 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. Experimenting in the studio one night Leander did one of those rare things: he synthesised a whole new pop sound from some unlikely sources. "It seems like every time we get a series of gigs together and some sort of comeback is on the cards, he will get arrested and we lose a lot of shows. Originally called The Glitter Men, only Rossall and Ellison played on Glitters first two records every other instrument was played by Mike Leander. A year later, he toured with the Elgins. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Unfortunately, although the band had moved on, their fans hadn't. Leander died ten years ago at the age of 55 and is now mainly forgotten or his legacy forever tainted by his association with Glitter. In 1979, Shephard and Phipps worked with former Sparks keyboard player Peter Oxendale, recording the US only album Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is as Oxendale and Shephard. Vid by me - enjoy! Unfortunately, although the band had moved on, their fans hadn't. They are an influence on anyone who fancies a bit of the two drummer tribal stomp on their sound. I was so in love with Gerry RIP. The name of the other one escapes me.. They were unofficially known as the Glittermen on the first four hit singles by Gary Glitter from 1972 to 1973. They were unofficially known as the Glittermen on the first four hit singles by Gary Glitter from 1972 to 1973. 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. The Glitter Band's unique sound is well appreciated by the cognoscenti of alternative music makers. For me the Glitter band were more influential than the Beatles. However, she listens to many genres of music as her Toppermost articles attest. Finally Springate, Phipps and Shephard released "Gotta Get a Message Back To You" in September 1977, under the new name of Air Traffic Control. 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. We were not even that close when we were working with him. 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. 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 of The 70's Glam Rock Group \"The Glitter Band\".The Interview Includes an Insight of Pete Phipps career In music then and now, the history behind The Glitter Band (how It was formed and the progression to becoming one of the UK's major Glam Rock Bands of The 70's) and exclusive behind the scene bloopers and information that some listeners may not of heard before. Several of the band had played with Glitter in The Boston Showband (also known as The Bostons) during the 1960s when he was still known as Paul Raven. 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. If he could have played brass then he would have done that as well.". The Glitterband certainly did use 2 drummers. 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. He toured in the US and in the UK. A fabric that has been torn by Paul Gadd's fall from grace. With Rossall away, John Springate and Gerry Shephard took over leadership of the Glitter Band. Thank you Joyce. To find out more, click here. Finally a rather sub-par and generic sounding power ballad, Nothing At All, appeared in 1986 and again did nothing. The Glitter Band regrouped under their old name in 1980, around the same time as Gary Glitter himself moved back into focus. 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. He and Phipps also featured in the Identity Parade round in the first episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks in 1996. It got no airplay and failed to chart. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Im convinced it would have been considered a Power Pop classic had it appeared just a few years later. It has a bit of a Starsky and Hutch theme tune vibe going on! However, his 1975 single, I Was Only Dreaming, is a great glam tune and it really should have been a hit. 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. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Even then he insisted on staying in a hotel whilst we had to share digs in bunk beds behind the stage. On this particular evening one of his charges David Essex, who he was producing at the time, phoned in sick and in the downtime Leander invented the Glitter band sound. [8][9] Phipps was also the drummer on Liquid Gold's hits which included "Dance Yourself Dizzy". He found an old guitar with a really bad action on it and put it through some really heavy fender tube amps till it was jumping off the floor and that was how that sound came about.". document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. They are the last living link to the brilliant producer Mike Leander, who created the Glitter Band sound which has influenced so many people in pop from The Fall to The Smiths to Marilyn Manson, Adam And The Ants, Bow Wow Wow and Killing Joke and anyone else who cops that droning guitar over a tribal beat. Further sporadic releases followed in the 1980s on a variety of labels. 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." Pete Phipps still performs live as The Glitter Band. Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus. An excellent and informative article. 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.". Ophidian I drummer Ragnar Sverrisson picks out the finest drummers in tech death who have helped push the genre's boundaries, complete with drum-cam playthroughs . Following Ellison's death in 2017, Rossall continued to tour for the rest of his life. Your email address will not be published. The Glitter Band released their debut LP, called Hey! But original drummer Pete Phipps and bandmate Dominic Rodgers say their songs recorded separately from Glitters are still not played on the radio. It quickly reached No.4 in the charts, outselling Gary Glitter in the process. 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. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. 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. The Glitter Band were poppy enough to catch the ear of my 10-year-old self, but distinctive and different enough also to hold my attention over the years. He was always a prima dona really.". Dr. John was a great influence on him and this is where the tribal double drummer sound came from. 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. John Rossall looks worn out at the very mention of the disgraced singer. He then rejoined Gary Glitter for UK, Middle East and US tours. Glitter was difficult to work with even when we first met him in 1964/65 when we were his backing band in the Starr Club in Germany. Instead of hitting the cymbals, drummers such as Dave Mount of Mud thumped out the rhythm with. Feel free to contribute! Thanks for your article, the Glitter Band really and truly deserved so much more recognition,they alone were brilliant musicians and writers. Sadly this also sank without a trace. The album was recorded in Metway Studios, Brighton and produced by Mike Wilton and engineered by Jake Routham. 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. Angel Face was followed up by another Rossall and Shephard composition, Just For You, which also cracked the UK top 10. 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." (Hello also scored with another Hey-era staple, a cover of the Exciters' "Tell Him.") A dynamic combination". In 1974, Mike Leander reluctantly allowed the Glitter Band (as they were now known) to make a record as promised. There have been a few bands using 2 drummers - King Crimson did it live in 1994 as well. . 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. The band only played with Glitter for two years before going alone and scoring a string of top ten hits. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Are the Glitter Band capable of making rock n roll part3? In June 1972, he began working for Gary Glitter's backing band The Glittermen and, in the same month, they made their first appearance on Top of the Pops with "Rock and Roll Part 2". I imagine somebody a bit more famous was doing it before them. One of the identifying features of the glitter bands of the early Seventies was the drumming. Producer Mike Leander kept the distinctive sound on many of the songs, but there is evidence of a slicker sound on a few of the tracks. The Glitter Band were supporting and it has to be said, that night, they should have been headlining. 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. 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. The bands third album, Listen To The Band, followed at the end of 1975. The best track on it is Look What Youve Been Missing which saw John Rossall return to songwriting duties with Gerry Shephard. This article on a British drummer is a stub. Bell Records signed the Glitter Band as a new artist, and Angel Face was released on 1st March 1974. After leaving school in 1969 he joined Black Velvet, a soul/funk band tours, recording and radio shows. It's a sound that is so distinctive that it causes the Pavlovian exhortation: "Ah! The Glitter band, though, are trapped by history. Having performed and recorded regularly with jazz visionaries such as Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman, Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker and John Zorn, Sorey is clearly a far-sighted artist whose concept of music spans many levels. Glitter Band bass player John Rossall co-wrote some of the songs and continues the band to this day, but he knows his place in the scheme of things. 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. 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". 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. He had been around for ten years by that time and done loads of records and he was very keen to take the chance.". Sometimes when the odds are stacked up this high the creative juices can go crazy. It was reissued in 1985, again to no avail. 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. "Mike played all instruments apart from the brass which me and Gerry did. In short, he was a pop genius and should be lauded in the way that Joe Meek is. Oh yes - Adam & The Ants did, and likewise the ghastly Sigue Sigue Sputnik. 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. He also arranged the strings for The Drifters' 'Under The Boardwalk'. It was the twin drum's combined with Gerry's glitter 'Star' guitar with its . (wikipedia) But original drummer Pete Phipps and bandmate Dominic Rodgers say their songs - recorded separately from Glitter's - are still not played on the radio. The bands second album, Rock n Roll Dudes, followed later in 1975 and it consisted wholly of original material. I loved the Glitter Band and still do, was part of my teenage years, RIP Gerry. Before we went on the room was empty but suddenly it filled up and people were going crazy. Random Hold composed of David Rhodes, Bill MacCormick, David Ferguson, and Pete Phipps were described by a music journalist[who?] With his first major concert tour looming, Glitter and producer/co-conspirator Mike Leander needed a full-time backing band for live work. Great band, great music. To find out more, click here. The story of the Glitter Band begins in the mid 1960s. The music group originally came jointly in 1972, pursuing Glitter's very own breakthrough using the strike "Stone.". Its a strong pop song and was also covered by French singer Sheila (aka Sheila & B. John Rossall was the leader of the Boston Show Band who had worked in Germany with one Paul Raven, and Mike Leander, his manager/co-writer. That two drum sound was thrilling. The Glitter Band discography and songs: Music profile for The Glitter Band, formed 1972. Then in 1971, he joined CBS band Heaven and supported Jeff Beck on tour in the UK and Germany. He did lots of different kinds of things.". Genres: Glam Rock, Pop Rock, Disco. Saw the Glitter Band at Margates Dreamland Ballroom when they were at their peak. An utterly un-Glitter-like set, it was characterized by a truly audacious cover of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil." [5] They regrouped as The Glitter Band in 1980 with the addition of Eddy Spence on keyboards and Brian Jones replacing Harvey on sax. 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. We are certainly not making any case for Gary Glitter here, he merely grunted along on these records - his creative input was zero. They originally came together in 1972, following Glitter's own breakthrough with the hit "Rock and Roll." [3] With a few changes in personnel, the Boston Showband became the Glittermen, and later The Glitter Band in 1973[4] who were: John Rossall (trombone and musical director), Gerry Shephard (lead guitar and vocals), Pete Phipps (drums and keyboards), Tony Leonard (drums), John Springate (bass and vocals) and Harvey Ellison (saxophone). Just look at all the Christmas songs from the 70s still being played! 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Peter Gill (born 9 June 1951) is an English former heavy metal drummer, formerly a member of The Glitter Band, Saxon and Motrhead . Rossall himself had known Leander since the 60s and was asked by the producer to put the Glitter Band together to back up the vocalist when the hits started pouring out and there were tours and Top Of The Pops to be done. 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. Pete said Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, even cut the band from a fi lm made about him. "It was nerve wracking. VBTS May 22, 2005 #7 Jean-Baptiste Clamence @ May 23 2005, 01:15 AM wrote: Written by John Rossall and Gerry Sheppard, their debut single, "Angel Face," was an obvious close relation to the Glitter sound, a pounding, stomping number that raced to number four in Britain in March 1974, but it unquestionably possessed a charm all of its own. 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. Required fields are marked *. The band only played with Glitter for two years before going alone and scoring a string of top ten hits. Trevor Horn played bass guitar for the band in this era. Rossall left the band on 31 December 1974. Also included is a rather ill-advised cover of the Rolling Stones Sympathy For The Devil their first cover version since the Hey! Answer (1 of 10): There are a lot of multi-drummer bands that come to mind - Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, some recent incarnations of King Crimson, The Feelies). They have existed on and off since with various line-ups, and there are currently two bands featuring original members who use the name. (Album) 2 versions : Bell Records, Bell Records: BELLS 241, 2308 095: UK: 1974: Sell This Version: 2 versions : Image Title Label Catalog Number Year In Your Collection, Wantlist, or Inventory Actions; V 2219, V2219: British Electric Foundation . [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. 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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