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The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next - Album Cover 1973

31/5/15 – The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Next -1973 – The Faith Healer/ Swampsnake/ Vambo Marble Eye/ Next – Interview with Bob Harris – 1973

The Faith Healer is one of my favourite songs of the seventies and I was lucky enough to see The Sensational Alex Harvey Band perform it live twice in Liverpool all those years ago. The song though is no secret, opening side two of  Next, the band’s second album released in 1973. But Next’s opening track […]

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band 1972

30/5/15 – The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Framed – Live In Sweden – 1974

The link between The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and the previous post about Stealers Wheel (apart from Scotland) is the legendary American songwriting team Lieber & Stoller. They weren’t just songwriters they were also producers and they turned up in England in the seventies and produced some unlikely artists such as Elkie Brooks, Procol Harum and […]