MOJO PRESENTS
GLAM NUGGETS
★ SPARKS
★ NEW YORK DOLLS
★ MICK RONSON
★ DANA GILLESPIE
★ SUZI QUATRO
★ HOLLYWOOD
BRATS
15 WHAM BAM RARITIES FROM THE BOOGIE CHILDREN!
1 GUMBO
WE DON’T CARE
Obscurity surrounds this 1974 B-side released only in France and Belgium – and why’s there a female voice when there are only geezers on the sleeve? Yet its howling guitars, chugging boogie and we-don’tneed-no-education nihilism equals prime glam proto-punk. As well as recording as U.K. Jones, producer/ writer Mike Berry worked with Ning, Boneshaker and Biggles.
Written by Berry. Published by Sparta Florida Music Group Ltd. &©1974 Cherry Red Records Ltd ISRC Code – GBBLY2200103 Licensed courtesy of Cherry Red Records.
2 SPARKS
THIS TOWN AIN’T BIG ENOUGH FOR
BOTH OF US
This re-recorded version of the Maels’ biggest UK hit remains a classic of their
oeuvre.
An unnerving yet exhilarating combination of the operatic, old Hollywood and hard rocking, with tongue-twisting lyrics of romantic angst, stampeding rhinos and Western gun fights, it sounds like an Art Deco precursor to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.
Written by Ron Mael. Published by BMG Rights Management. &©Sparks 2008. 2008 recording. www.allsparks.com
3 NEW YORK DOLLS
PERSONALITY CRISIS
Recording with Todd Rundgren, lead Doll David Johansen asked if his vocals were “ludicrous enough.”
Suitably, here was glam collapsing into total decadence, with the era’s psych-fracturing reinventions played out with pre-punk fury. Features Jerry Nolan, after original drummer Billy Murcia died of an overdose in 1972.