Phipps was then asked to join Random Hold, a band he had already worked with a year or two before. 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. In 2000 he teamed up once again with Shephard to pen the UKs Eurovision entry, Dont Play That Song Again, performed by French. Evidence that the Glitter Band were capable of meeting greater challenges than the Glitter sound normally set was delivered in early 1975 with their fourth single, the soft rock ballad "Goodbye My Love." Are the Glitter Band capable of making rock n roll part3? Share. The band Orleans had two drummers. Tours with Gary Glitter continued. The Glitter Band were supporting and it has to be said, that night, they should have been headlining. It had the distinctive glitter sound and while not quite as strong as Angel Face, its still a great glam record. Rossall shakes his head with sadness at the way Leander has nearly been forgotten. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. With his first major concert tour looming, Glitter and producer/co-conspirator Mike Leander needed a full-time backing band for live work. It also inspired me to write this article. Some of the band continued to back Gary Glitter on live dates but he unceremoniously sacked them for cheaper musicians at the end of the 1980s a fact broadcasters really should bear in mind when trying to whitewash the band from music history. [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). Playing hard-stomping glam rock with singalong choruses as well as more straightforward romantic pop, the Glitter Band were named for their association with glam idol Gary Glitter. With Rossall away, John Springate and Gerry Shephard took over leadership of the Glitter Band. Its a fantastic record which has really stood the test of time definitely a glam rock classic. 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. Get the best celeb gossip with the Daily Star Showbiz newsletter. They were brilliant! no.4 in the UK charts, remaining there for 10 weeks. It again features the heavy Glitter sound and was another Rossall/Shephard composition. But original drummer Pete Phipps and bandmate Dominic Rodgers say their songs - recorded separately from Glitter's - are still not played on the radio. 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. 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. It met with instant success and reached. I read in one of glitters bios, he really did only regard them as employees the piss tho? Even then he insisted on staying in a hotel whilst we had to share digs in bunk beds behind the stage. Also included is a rather ill-advised cover of the Rolling Stones Sympathy For The Devil their first cover version since the Hey! In 1985, Phipps recorded with Hugh Cornwell playing on the single "One in a Million". Listen To The Band is musically ambitious compared to their previous albums, with the band trying to move away from the distinctive sound which made them famous, hoping to be taken more seriously. Then in 1971, he joined CBS band Heaven and supported Jeff Beck on tour in the UK and Germany. Thanks for your article, the Glitter Band really and truly deserved so much more recognition,they alone were brilliant musicians and writers. Excerpts from an exclusive interview with drummer Pete Phipps which appeared in the November 2019 issue of the Beat. 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). However, she listens to many genres of music as her Toppermost articles attest. (Hello also scored with another Hey-era staple, a cover of the Exciters' "Tell Him.") They have existed on and off since with various line-ups, and there are currently two bands featuring original members who use the name. 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." VBTS May 22, 2005 #7 Jean-Baptiste Clamence @ May 23 2005, 01:15 AM wrote: 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. It became their biggest hit in early 1975, reaching No.2. In 2014 the song "Angel Face" was included on the soundtrack of the hit Spanish film The Face of an Angel. I didnt even like Gary Glitter all that much his songs were okay but I far preferred watching his backing band on Top Of The Pops and from a very early age had a little crush on the saxophonist, Harvey Ellison. It may not be PC but I still love Gary and the Glitter Band music. "For me when we play we are carrying on the work and legacy of Mike Leander. 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. Unfortunately, although the band had moved on, their fans hadn't. Gill stayed briefly in the band, recording only one album called Victim You in 1996. 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 . Joyce tweets @northseacrashes and co-hosts @PsychoSundae featuring the best psych and garage tunes chosen by followers. Learn how your comment data is processed. Sometimes when the odds are stacked up this high the creative juices can go crazy. In August they had a top 20 summer hit with the non-album song, Love In The Sun. According to John Rossall, only he, Shephard and Leonard featured on the single, together with Brian Jones on sax. In March 1974, "Angel Face" was released on Bell Records, reaching number four in the UK Singles Chart, and outselling Glitter's "Remember Me This Way" that week, though this song ultimately peaked higher at #3. To find out more, click here. 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." Glitter Band. 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). However, I think the Glitter Band version is far better. He did lots of different kinds of things.". 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. 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. At the time it was the worst performing UK Eurovision entry, which Shephard said was a badge of honour. Required fields are marked *. Its ironic that the advent of punk washed them away, as Angel Face must have influenced most of the punks who replaced them in the charts later in the decade. 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Theyll now never get together again as sadly Gerry Shephard died of cancer aged just 51 in 2003. He has recorded with: "LIVE-WIRE EURYTHMICS MAKE A SOULFUL NOISE IN CONCERT", Learn how and when to remove this template message, The Official Website for Pete Phipps and The Glitter Band, The Official Glitter Band Website The Glitter Band, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pete_Phipps&oldid=1117447212, This page was last edited on 21 October 2022, at 19:44. Later in the year, he recorded an album of material with Alan Merrill of the Arrows which was released the following year. Devotion) of Spacer fame. He said: Gary was driving in limousines and flying first class and we were staying in bed and breakfasts and travelling in a Transit. The Official Website for Pete Phipps and The Glitter Band, The Original Jukebox Heroes (Pete Phipps, drums), Never Too Young To Rock (1975 movie) Part 1 on YouTube. It came as a total shock.. 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. 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 . 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. All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. They were unofficially known as the Glittermen on the first four hit singles by Gary Glitter from 1972 to 1973. The B-side, You Wouldnt Leave Me Would You, a Springate/Shephard composition, carries on where Angel Face left off and the intro reminds me of a few punk and new wave tunes which followed just a few years later. They are one of the very few bands to start out backing a solo artist and go on to become successful in their own right an obvious comparison would be the Shadows. Springate and Shephard also wrote the UK's 2000 Eurovision Song Contest entry, "Don't Play That Song Again" performed by Nicki French.[13]. [3][5] The band, now working as a separate entity with Tony Leonard having replaced Pete Gill, as well as continuing to back Glitter, played a few well-received live shows before their first single came out, mixing some new songs with cover versions of 1950s and 1960s songs. 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Perrone, Pierre (2003) "Obituary: Gerry Shephard; Glitter Band guitarist and songwriter". Rossall and Shephard came up with Angel Face. The decision to launch the Glitter Band as a recording act in its own right was made in late 1973. Prior to leaving, Rossall featured with his bandmates in a plot free 1975 film, Never Too Young To Rock, which is only worth watching for their live performances and a couple of seconds of their painful acting, which is still better than most performances from the actual actors in the film. In 1987 he toured as a replacement in Culture Club in France and Iceland. It met with instant success and reached. 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. Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus. Feel free to contribute! We didnt know how people were going to react. Classic Disco, and Angel Face / You Wouldn't Leave Me Would You?. They were unofficially known as the Glittermen on the first four hit singles by Gary Glitter from 1972 to 1973. Musically the story had become about Gary Glitter but in reality it should be about the band's producer Mike Leander. The original band members were: Gerry Shephard (lead guitar and vocals) John Springate (Bass & Vocals) Pete Phipps (Drums and Keyboards) John Rossall (Sax, Trombone & Musical Director), Pete Gill (Drums), Tony Leonard (Drums), and Harvey Ellison (sax)The Glitter Band are still touring today featuring original members Pete Phipps and John Springate. John Rossall died on 2 October 2021, at the age of 75.[14]. 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? I imagine somebody a bit more famous was doing it before them. [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. Rossall also still tours regularly, and his band included Harvey Ellison, until he passed away in February 2017. Its not as well remembered today as it should be its a great summer pop song with that distinctive stomping beat, but there are some Beach Boys inspired harmonies as well. 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. They were branching out towards a more soul and funk sound which was probably not the best move with punk bubbling under. The single, written by Springate and Phipps, never made it past a few initial commercial pressings on the Epic label. "Mike was brilliant, he played on every track - we just came in and did the brass parts. However, in 1981, they reconvened with a little heard single, Until The Next Time. His imagination and sheer musical brilliance was key in the 60s colouring in records with amazing and imaginative use of strings, working with The Beatles, Marianne Faithful, Billy Fury and a whole host of other key players. The Glitter Band released their debut LP, called Hey! In 1976, as Gary Glitter announced his retirement, the Glitter Band cut their last sonic links with the old sound. All rights reserved. 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. He also arranged the strings for The Drifters' 'Under The Boardwalk'. This does not detract, though, from Mike Leander who created these deceptively simple records, slowing down Burundi drums played in shuffling three fours and copying their tribal power with two drum kits and adding massive drones from the guitar bass and a brass section. 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 December 2013, John Rossall released a new single, a Glitter styled version of the classic "White Christmas". Looking to the future the newly invigorated Glitter Band are thinking big. Also in 1984, Phipps returned to work with XTC in the studio to record the album Big Express. Gadd, 71, was jailed in 1999 for child porn offences. 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. Trevor Horn played bass guitar for the band in this era. CLICK HERE or Email contact@fortheflycustoms.com to Get In Touch . Running a mobile discotheque at the time I still have most of the Glitter Bands hit singles. STAGEWEAR - Badass custom Stage Wear For Bands & More ForTheFly Customs. 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. Your email address will not be published. ~ Dave Thompson. Rossall is even talking of making a new album. They guested on Denims glam rock themed 1992 album, Back In Denim with Shephard and his star guitar featuring in the video for Middle Of The Road. (wikipedia) Things didnt stand still in 1975. We are certainly not making any case for Gary Glitter here, he merely grunted along on these records - his creative input was zero. 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, Leander needed a group to back his new star on Top Of The Pops and for live shows. The Glitter Band's unique sound is well appreciated by the cognoscenti of alternative music makers. Hiro_Noodles. The Glitter band, though, are trapped by history. The Glitter Band spent five years backing up the singer until they split away under Leanders steady tutelage to have their own hits which of course meant that they fell out with the leader of the gang in 1977 and have never spoken to him since then but his ghost is ever present. Pete said Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, even cut the band from a fi lm made about him. He was also influenced by Osibisas rhythms. Drummers Pete Phipps and Tony Leonard eventually completed the line up. With John Rossall having quit for a solo career, the remaining members signed with CBS and, shortening their name to the G Band, set to work on their most ambitious collection yet, Paris Match. 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. 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. "For me the Glitter band were more influential than the Beatles," explained The Fall's Mark Smith recently. He toured in the US and in the UK. The G Band departed Bell Records for CBS and recorded an album called Paris Match, which despite being marketed with two different covers failed to do anything. (of course), later in 1974. If Ive whetted your appetite for this most underrated and somewhat forgotten 70s band, you can buy a Box Set containing their four albums. And there are two drummers on some major jazz records such as Miles's Bitches Brew or John Coltrane's Meditations. This was the start of a time when The Glitter Band toured the world amasing millions of record sales. The Glitter Band sound was what attracted me to them back in the day. Copyright 2023 [1] He played all the instruments himself till he came up with the dark and strange rock & roll of 'Rock n roll part 1 and 2'. 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. 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. . He was last year caged for 16 years over a string of child sex crimes. 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. They were recently included in the BBC Four show Glam Rock At The BBC which reminded me how much I had loved them when I was young, and it was a rare opportunity to see them again on TV. 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. Double drumming (sometimes referred to as double drums) is a musical technique, used mostly in rock music, where two drummers each play a drum kit at the same time. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. I have their albums playing in my car still x, Your email address will not be published. The potential is there and the talent is there- could the Glitter Band be about to use rock & roll to excise the ghost of Gary Glitter the bacofoil god with feet of clay? With most of them I can sense the presence of two distinctly different drummers at play, especially in the case of the classic Allma. I too had forgotten just how good they were. Sadly this also sank without a trace. "), 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." 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." It was written by Springate, Shephard and Eddie Seago, who also ran the bands management company. 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