The Hoople [Single]

Performer: Mott the Hoople
Engineer: Sean Milligan; Peter Swettenham; Gary Edwards; Bill Price
Producer: Dale Griffin; Ian Hunter; Overend Watts; Bruce Dickinson (Compilation)
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Mott The Hoople: Ian Hunter, Ariel Bender, Dale Griffin, Morgan Fisher, Overend Watts. Personnel: Ian Hunter, Ariel Bender (vocals, guitar); Overend Watts (vocals, bass guitar); Graham Preskitt (violin); Jock McPherson (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Howie Casey (tenor saxophone); Morgan Fisher (keyboards, synthesizer); Dale Buffin Griffin (drums); Sue, Sunny, Barry St. John (background vocals). Audio Remasterers: Ray Staff; Vic Anesini. Liner Note Author: Campbell Devine. Arranger: Ian Hunter. After 1973's MOTT, a loosely structured concept album about life in a rock & roll band, the only obvious choice for a follow-up was 1974's THE HOOPLE, a loosely structured concept album about the overall state of rock & roll in the mid-'70s. Opening with "The Golden Age of Rock and Roll," a half-serious, half-satiric look at rock & roll's past, the album continues with the darkly cynical "Marionette," and a pair of classics about teenage life, the sympathetic "Born Late '58" and the proto-punk "Crash Street Kids." The last of these makes obvious the Clash's debt to Mott the Hoople (Clash guitarist Mick Jones was an enormous Mott fan, and lobbied for the band's producer, Guy Stevens, to come out of retirement to produce their classic LONDON CALLING in 1979). THE HOOPLE is a snapshot of the mid-'70s rock & roll scene that foreshadows the impending rise of punk.

Q (10/00, p.146) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Finds frontman Ian Hunter and co. camping it up in fine glam-rock style..." Uncut (p.114) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Added to THE HOOPLE is Mick Ronson's only studio contribution as a band member, the nostalgic, valedictory 'Saturday Gigs'." Record Collector (magazine) (pp.98-99) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here are great songs here....The intelligence and proto-punk aggression of Mott's work is evident throughout."

While most rock fans remember Mott The Hoople as a thriving early-'70s glam band, they were also one of the first British bands to serve as a mouthpiece for the working class (predating both The Sex Pistols and The Clash by several years). Led by singer Ian Hunter and future Bad Company guitarist Mick Ralphs, Mott could rock out and pose with the best of 'em.

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