Mott The Hoople and its fans were dealt a serious blow when the group’s drummer, Dale “Buffin” Griffin, passed away…
“I feel neglected, feel rejected/Living in the wrong time”: that was a line written and sung by Ian Hunter on…
A convincing case could be made for Mott The Hoople being the ultimate “hard luck kids” of rock and roll…
Mott The Hoople pulled off a true rock & roll resurrection in 1972 with the help of David Bowie. The…
Back in 2003, a compilation entitled Velvet Tinmine opened up a rich, unheralded vein of retro-rock nostalgia. It’s called “junkshop…
The album All The Young Dudes occupies the critical turning point in the Mott The Hoople story. The patronage of…
It is one of several bitter ironies in the Mott The Hoople story that they delivered the finest album of…
All of the Mott The Hoople albums from their Island Records era have their partisans but if one had to…
If the first Mott The Hoople album was a magical bit of alchemy that was quickly willed into existence then…
In time, Mott The Hoople would become their own mythic beast of rock and roll legend but they began as…
Anyone who embraces any kind of schlock culture – b-movies, music outside the mainstream, books about unpopular or unusual subjects…