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    Mott The Hoople

    Nov 12, 2019 1 minute

    No sleep at Hammersmith; impressive double-vinyl incarnation of 30th-anniversary CD.

    After first manifesting 50 years ago, Mott The Hoople finally hit paydirt with Bowie in 1972 before the following July’s showed that Ian Hunter could write, compounded by . After guitarist Mick Ralphs split, Ariel Bender arrived as a wild-card shot in the arm, and the world seemed at their feet when they hit Hammersmith Odeon for two shows on December 14, the closing date of the UK tour that had started over a month earlier, with relatively unknown support band Queen.

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