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On arriving in the deep south of the U.S., Harvey announced to black state-troopers that he would perform blacked-up as Al Jolson "in the interests of racial harmony." The Sensational Alex Harvey Band thrived on such confrontation, they could be both rock band and vaudeville troupe, whether interpreting Jacques Brel or performing Tom Jones "Delilah" oozing with intrigue and sexuality. Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Harvey’s death, this is the poignant story of Scotland’s finest rock entertainer.
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Glasgow-born Alex Harvey's career began in the 1950s when he won a competition to become Scotland's answer to Tommy Steele (he dubbed himself 'Last of the Teenage Idols'). He was a devoted family man but in front of an audience he became an unforgettable entertainer -- charismatic, provocative and intense. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band eventually became one of the most exciting live acts of the 1970s --taking in Jacques Brel, rock and vaudeville.
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But Harvey's life offstage was beset by tragedy and his own alcoholism: his younger brother, Les, was electrocuted on stage; his manager and friend Billy Fehilly was killed in a plane crash. Eventually with his band in tatters, Alex sank into a sea of alcohol, finally succumbing to a fatal heart attack whilst waiting for a ferry home from a gig in Belgium in 1982, the day before his 47th birthday.
"The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were one of the craziest, most honest, most creative and most courageous bands of their time . . . [Harvey] would go to any length to enlighten and to entertain."
--NME
"Alex was cheeky. Special. Very charismatic. A naughty boy who didn't want to grow up.'"
--RICHARD O'BRIEN (Rocky Horror Show)
"I would have died to have had Alex Harvey as an uncle."
--Robert Smith, The Cure
John Neil Munro was born in Campbeltown and raised in Stornoway. He studied modern and economic history at Glasgow University then completed a postgraduate journalism course in Cardiff during the late 1980s.
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- PublisherS A F Pub Ltd
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0946719470
- ISBN 13 9780946719471
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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