This page will contain latest news in the Ian Hunter/Mott The Hoople camp.
This page last updated 19th February 2024.
Ian Hunter's next album, Defiance Part 2: Fiction will be released on 19th April on the Sun Records label. It will feature 10 songs and be available on CD, vinyl and digital formats. There will also be a limited-edition 2-LP version featuring three bonus tracks available exclusively on Record Store Day on Saturday 20th April.
The track listing is as follows:
The track Precious is now available on YouTube
The musicians, as on Defiance Part 1, read like a who's who of the rock world and feature some on the last recordings by Taylor Hawkins and Jeff Beck:
19th February 2024
Mott's breakthrough album from 1972 was reissued as a 2-LP set on the Burning Shed label on 8th December 2023. The first LP features the "remastered" album, while the second LP features bonus tracks of early versions and outtakes.
There was also a super-deluxe issue, which as well as the above 2-LP set, includes two CDs and a 12-inch vinyl single featuring the "unlocked cars" version of All The Young Dudes and the b-side version of One Of The Boys. In addition, there is a 72-page hardback book, 3 art prints, two posters, a 'Sea Divers' membership card and an individually-numbered certificate. Expect to pay £125 for this whopper.
The two CDs mirror the content of the two LPs (but not the 12-inch single). The bonus tracks have all been released before on either the Mental Train box set or All The Young Dudes - The Anthology. Only the "unlocked cars" version of All The Young Dudes has not been previously released (it was for BBC radio use only). The b-side version of One Of The Boys has not been previously released on any compilation or CD (despite what some sleeve notes mat say).
24th November 2023
British Lions debut album has been reissued together with a bonus live disc. The first disc contains the original album (with the original running order restored), together with the bonus tracks we saw on the Angel Air disc save for the BBC tracks for which the rights are not available. It is on the Think Like A Key label.
The second disc contains a live concert recorded at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco and previously released as Live At The Old Waldorf, San Francisco 1978. This disc omits the (studio) bonus tracks of the Angel Air release.
24th November 2023
A 4-CD box set of Mick Ralphs' solo work is due in November. Released on Cherry Red Records, it features his solo albums Take This!, It's All Good, That's Life - Can't Get Enough and a live album from the Mick Ralphs Blues Band Should Know Better.
27th August 2023
David Bowie's famous "retirement" show from 1973 has been reissued on Blu-Ray/2CD. We finally get all the encores, including The Jean Genie/Love Me Do and Round And Round which both feature Jeff Beck. Picture quality is much improved compared with previously releases.
27th August 2023
Ian's 1995 solo album, Dirty Laundry, has been reissued on CD and blue vinyl. Remastered by the engineer who worked on the original album it has new sleeve notes. The vinyl omits two tracks, Good Girls and Never Trust A Blonde.
27th August 2023
Ian's latest album was released on 21st April 2023. Titled >Defiance Part 1, it features the following tracks:
The list of musicians that have collaborated on this album reads like a who's who of rock music: Jeff Beck, Johnny Depp, Joe Elliott (from Def Leppard), Billy Gibbons (from ZZ Top), Taylor Hawkins (from the Foo Fighters), Duff McKagan and Slash (from Guns 'n' Roses), Todd Rundgren, Jeff Tweedy (from Wilco), Robert Trujillo (from Metallica), Waddy Wachtel (Stevie Nicks, Keith Richards), Brad Whitford (from Aerosmith), Dane Clark (John Mellencamp), Billy Bob Thornton and J.D.Andrew (from the Boxmasters), and Dean Delo, Robert de Leo and Eric Kretz (from Stone Temple Pilots).
It is on the Sun label in North America and UK. Initial reports it would be on a different label in the UK now seem to be wide of the mark.
24th April 2023