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Tag Archives: Andy Scott
‘He paints with light!’ Talking Slade with influential rock ‘n’ roll photographer Gered Mankowitz
In which Malcolm Wyatt publishes further excerpts from Wild! Wild! Wild! A People’s History of Slade, in this case the full-length version of his late April 2023 feature/interview with esteemed South East Cornwall-based photographer Gered Mankowitz In Gered Mankowitz: Rock … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Scott, Bilston, Chas Chandler, Dave Hill, Don Powell, Gered Mankowitz, Jim lea, Jimi Hendrix, Kenneth Williams, Noddy Holder, photography, Rock and Roll Photography, Rolling Stones, Slade, Slade in Flame, Suzi Quatro, The Beatles, The Monkees, Tony Hancock, Wild! Wild! Wild! A People’s History of Slade, wolverhampton
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Going Full Circle with The Sweet – back in touch with Andy Scott
The Sweet are all set to go Full Circle, the 1970s glam-rock hitmakers all set for a 13-date December UK tour. Guitarist/vocalist cum national treasure and glam rock royalty, Andy Scott, the golden thread linking the band’s past to present … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Scott, Bahamas, Blockbuster, Brian Connolly, Co-Co, Don Powell, Elastic Band, Fox on the Run, Frome, Full Circle, Level Headed, Love Is like Oxygen, Mick Tucker, Mike Chapman, Mud, Nicky Chinn, Phil Wainman, Slade, Suzi Quatro, Sweet, The Elastic Band, Wrexham
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The call of home is loud… still as loud – a 77th birthday salute to Slade legend Don Powell
If you follow my social media, you’ll know I’ve become a little distracted across 2023, not least through completing Wild! Wild! Wild! A People’s History of Slade (available direct from the publisher via this link). And while this may sound … Continue reading
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Tagged 'N Betweens, A People's History of Slade, Andy Scott, Bilston, Bob Young, Clem Cattini, Dave Hill, Dave Kemp, Denmark, Don Powell, Gered Mankowitz, Graham Swinnerton, Jim lea, John Coghlan, Johnny Howells, Lindisfarne, Margate, Mick Marson, Noddy Holder, Ozzy Osbourne, Ray Laidlaw, Reading Festival, Silkeborg, Slade, Spenwood books, Status Quo, Suzi Quatro, Sweet, Wild! Wild! Wild!, wolverhampton
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Looking back at 2018. Part two – the second six months
In which WriteWyattUK scans the archives to cull a few choice quotes from the last six months of 2018’s feature/interviews on this site, taking a leaf out of Dr Feelgood’s books, following Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson’s lead, ‘Looking back to see if … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Kershaw, Andy Scott, Bianca Kinane-Ewart, Blancmange, Charlie Reid, Colin Meloy, Cornershop, Dave Hill, David Bowie, Eleanor Friedberger, Fay Fife, Fiery Furnaces, Goat Girl, Gruff Rhys, Hazel O'Connor, Hugh Cornwell, I Am Kloot, Ian Broudie, James, Jim lea, Joe Strummer, John Bramwell, John Peel, John Walters, Lightning Seeds, Lucinda Mellor, Neil Arthur, Neil Cossar, Nick Power, Nina Persson, Phil Odgers, Robert Gordon McHarg III, Rosy Bones, Saul Davies, Slade, Stuart Bailie, Super Furry Animals, Sweet, The Cardigans, The Coral, The Decemberists, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Proclaimers, The Rezillos, Tjinder Singh, Trouble Songs
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Old, new, hallowed and true – back in touch with Slade legend Dave Hill
If it’s December, Slade must be doing the rounds again, in the post Holder/Lea configuration they’ve worked in for 25-plus years. And it’s not long after ‘Super Yob’ guitar hero Dave Hill calls me from his home in the Black … Continue reading
Sweet inspirations, five decades on – the Andy Scott interview
Can it really be half a century since the pre-glam incarnation of The Sweet threw their first chord shapes, and 45 years since the era-defining ’Blockbuster’ saw the band in their pomp top the UK charts? What’s more, it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Scott, Ballroom Blitz, Blockbuster, Brian Connolly, Bruce Bisland, Don Powell, glam rock, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Love Affair, Mayfield's Mule, Mick Tucker, Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn, Novatines, Pete Lincoln, Redcar, Rock against Cancer, Roger McGough, Slade, Spinal Tap, Steve Priest, Suzi Quatro, Sweet, Teenage Rampage, The Elastic Band, The Scaffold, The Silver Stones, The Sweet, Tony O'Hora, Wrexham, Wrexham FC
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