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Once the Zal Band folded, Zal worked as a cab driver in and around London to support his wife and young family he had at the time. Harvey’s covers can be hit and miss and here we get several which attempt to be more faithful to the originals than some — we have a hit with a great Willie the Pimp where the band perfectly imitate Beefheart’s Magic Band and a miss with the ponderous He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother — a ballad which just doesn’t suit Harvey’s vocal. Alex’s brother plays excellent slide guitar throughout the album and extra poignancy was added to this cover with his premature death later the same year. Sensational: Thirty years after his death, Alex Harvey's music is still influential". www.scotsman.com . Retrieved 29 March 2021.

Zal also toured with Bonnie Tyler on several tours and performed live on some of her biggest hits such as Holding Out For A Hero and It's A Heartbreak. This album has a curious provenance being originally recorded as a series of demos for another singer Tony Caldeira who was credited with a couple of the songs when the recordings were subsequently recovered and released under both the Alex Harvey solo name here (and also wrongly as This Is SAHB — none of the future SAHB members appear on the recordings). The SAHB, as they were better known, recorded eight albums in five years and were regarded as one of the biggest-grossing live bands in Europe. They participated in major tours supporting the likes of Jethro Tull, Slade, and supporting bands such as The Who and Frank Zappa. By 1975 they were selling out iconic venues such as The Apollos and their shows there became famous thanks to their Christmas Shows which were never filmed. Also in 1975 they released a live album containing the song Delilah.This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band had top 40 hits in Britain with the single " Delilah", a cover version of the Tom Jones hit from their Live album that reached number seven in 1975, and with "The Boston Tea Party" in June 1976. [4] The song "Anthem" was a top 30 hit in Australia in 1975. [7] Harvey spent four years playing in the house band for hippie musical Hair, during which time he appeared on three more albums; but personal success continued to elude him. When he found himself singing as a crooner in seedy London clubs Harvey, disillusioned, called time on his musical career.

This is immediately evident with the instrumental opener which showcases new horn man Don Weller’s saxophone breaks which remain prominent throughout the album. Meanwhile the guitarist Matthew Wang trades in clean solos with less emphasis on the heavy riffing of Zal Cleminson, and the bass player and drummer underpin a very tight band. Keyboardist Tommy Eyre remained as the only surviving member from the last SAHB album. Finding a way to put 'Lulling Samson to sleep in her lap, Delilah alerted the Philistine rulers who waited in the shadows to capture him. They sheared Samson's hair and, in his newly weakened state, bound him, gouged out his eyes, and forced him to grind grain in the prison at Gaza' into a modern context, was not easy, though I must admit, later on Leonard Cohen did manage to do an amazing job with ' Hallelujah' in 1984. It was not an easy task for him either. He apparently 'wrote around 80 draft verses for 'Hallelujah,' with one writing session at the Royalton Hotel in New York where he was reduced to sitting on the floor in his underwear, banging his head on the floor.' The melody had already been put down in entirety by Les Reed, who had also had the idea for the theme of the song, and a chorus that had two lines of 'Iy Yi Yi, Delilah.' Les had suggested that the song be based on the story of a modern Samson and Delilah, and Barry and I set to work. The only line that remained from the original attempt at the Bible story was 'But I was lost like a Slave that no man can free' which still seemed to fit the new story angle. Jim Barnes and Stephen Scanes, The Book: Top 40 Research – 5th Edition, Barscan, Berowra, 2000, p. 318SAHB tried to carry on as the Zal Band, but as Cleminson says, “The minute Alex wasn’t there, there was nothing to fire off – there was no reason to be on stage.” Charles Augustus Lundquist from Syracuse, New YorkI thought when I first heard this Delilah song sung by Tom Jones that the singer used the knife to commit suicide on himself because he couldn't bear the thought of the love of his life deceiving and leaving him. I guess that it can be interpreted both ways when you really think about it. Instead, the show consisted of songs from his pre-SAHB days, and cover versions including a waltz arrangement of Anarchy In The UK. SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND | full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 9 October 2020.

The production of the album Framed took place in 1972. The album was produced by the band’s mentor and frontman, Alex Harvey, in collaboration with Phil Wainman, who was known for his work with The Sweet and Bay City Rollers. a b c d e f g Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Conciseed.). Virgin Books. p.1070. ISBN 1-85227-745-9. The Sun embarked on a search for the mystery woman who inspired the song, asking readers to call in if they knew Delia from Llandudno. They called off the search when they heard from Sylvan Mason, who explained that she co-wrote the song and that there was no Delia. According to Sylvan, Les Reed had already written the chorus "Why, why, why Delilah," and the lyric is based on the 1954 musical Carmen Jones. "Les Reed's idea was to write a modern-day Samson and Delilah song but we got carried away and it ended up like Carmen Jones," she told WalesOnline, adding that the line "I was lost like a slave that no man could free" is a reference to Samson being tied up. During the success of SAHB, Cleminson had a distinctive stage presence with SAHB owing to his white-face mime makeup. He started wearing the mime makeup when the band started playing larger venues, so they could see what he was doing on stage easier. Cleminson has said "The mime face came about when I went to Paris to see Marcel Marceau performing and it gave me an idea to have an alter ego and mess around with pulling faces when I played so it gave the audience something to watch and with bigger gigs – more people could see what I was up to". [1] The Zal Band [ edit ]

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In 1968, as was normally the practice, my then husband Barry Mason, and musician Les Reed would get together, usually at Les's house in Woking round the beautiful polished wood, grand piano, or sometimes in a music room at Frances Day and Hunter, just round the corner from Denmark Street. FD&H were the overall publishers of Donna Music, Les' first publishing company. They would thrash out a few concepts for a song. Les would bring, or work on, a melody, and a title would usually be agreed on. Sometimes, Barry would take my titles to Les. One of them 'Don't Linger With Your Finger on the Trigger,' Les recorded himself, and appeared on Beat Club in Bremen to sing it.

In 2006, he appeared in his début acting role as Wilson in the western film A Shot in the West, for which he wrote the theme music.We played anywhere and everywhere, so we had grass-roots fans,” Cleminson explains of the early days. That was the policy of all the bands that went to the States, before MTV, before video. And one of the things that got to us, and to Alex, was that when we went to new territories we had to do songs from the first album. We wanted to move on, but the management said: ‘Get a hit single, then you can do what you want’.” Ted remembered getting the call. “A friend of mine said, ‘Have you heard? Alex is dead’. I put the phone down and I sat down on the bed in a daze. The phone rang again and it was a guy I knew on talk radio who asked if I’d do a phone-in. I just said, ‘I’m not surprised, but I’m sad. Alex lived it to the edge’.” SAHB official reformed in 1993, with Zero Zero vocalist Stevie Doherty where they enjoyed relative success touring in the UK and Europe, performing at various festivals such as the Tarlair Music Festival as well as recording a live album titled Live in Glasgow 93 which was recorded in Minstrels which is no longer there. This line up of SAHB disbanded shortly after this and Zal decided to take time out.

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