New Ian Hunter, We Have Advance Copy!!!! Even Karen and Richard Carpenter, who were very anti-Mott the Hoople, may have chosen to cover it had the Carpenters survived.

 I havc permission to review the first single!  The rest of the album, April 19, 2024, but I can tell you this, the sequel to the last album with Ringo Starr and others is amazing.
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The first single from the album is a driving rocker, noting that it will "only take a minute of your precious time."  Insightful with elements of Ian Hunter's vocal inflections from previous discs, including as way back as Rant in 2001. That was Hunter's 10th studio album and it is unbelievably 23 years later.  It is a guitar onslaught and production by Ian and Andy York is sublime.  A little nick of the "All the Way from Memphis" opening riff, the talents of Joe Elliot, Brian May and Taylor Hawkins gives the audience a glimpse of something great on the horizon.  Even Karen and Richard Carpenter, who were very anti-Mott the Hoople, may have chosen to cover it had the Carpenters survived.

  https://joevigtop40.blogspot.com/2024/03/gary-sohmers-roars-back-march-8-with.html

 

 

It is hard to believe Man Overboard was 2009
Defiance 2 is much stronger.  Very excited by the new album
jv

TMR Music Review: Ian Hunter’s Man Overboard
By
Joe Viglione
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August 1, 2009

Now that Mott The Hoople is reuniting (perhaps Sean “Never Say Never Again” Connery should M.C. the show?) a solo album from the usually unpredictable lead vocalist of that underappreciated British ensemble is the inadvertent prelude to that long-awaited Hoople get together.   

Track 2 should have been Track 1, an exploding pop treasure with the unlikely title of “Arms & Legs”.   

https://youtu.be/TNd4R0yNPm4