Although David Bowie’s gifted hit of "All the Young Dudes" had effectively rescued the band from oblivion just two years prior, a subsequent falling out with their fan and benefactor revealed that ...

The history of rock 'n' roll is full of stories of dissolution and disaster, of drug-fueled tragedy and excess. Stories of pure, selfless generosity are so much rarer that they're almost antithetical ...

Mott The Hoople hadn’t even played a gig when they recorded their debut album shortly after madcap visionary producer Guy Stevens put them together, looking to create his dream collision between the ...

Ian Hunter borrowed a bit of Easter imagery for “Roll Away the Stone,” the closing number from Mott the Hoople’s final studio album in 1974. He didn’t take the religious symbolism much further for a ...

If Mott the Hoople had split up as planned in 1972, the group would still have had a small following with fond memories of the band. Mick Jones, who went on to become a founding member of The Clash, ...

Zeppelin were too loaded down in their alpine Ebow and Allah blues, their plane lost in the astral clouds somewhere between Mecca, Memphis, and Mordor; the Stones were faux-brutal celebutantes, ...

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Unfortunately the new year has been cruel to the rock world, as another veteran musician has passed away. Mott the Hoople drummer and founder Dale 'Buffin' Griffin has passed away at the age of 67 ...

“On tour as support to Mott The Hoople (the only time Queen ever supported anyone), I was always conscious that we were in the presence of something great, something highly evolved, close to the ...

British glam rockers Mott The Hoople are coming to America for the first time since their tour in support of 1974’s The Hoople. They’re using the moniker Mott The Hoople ’74 to mark the return of ...

But if you saw Mott’s brief, recently wrapped reunion tour of the Northeast — their first American tour since splitting up in 1975 — you came away believing in rock ‘n’ roll regeneration and ...