Here comes the 28th song in the Play It Again Mayhem series. It is “Saturday Gigs” by Mott The Hoople, from 1974. This is the nineteenth 70’s single in the playlist so far. It was the last studio recording that Mott The Hoople ever made as Ian Hunter left shortly afterwards. This song also became the final Mott The Hoople single and the only one to feature Mick Ronson after he replaced Ariel Bender. Sadly it only made number 41 in the UK charts, which I believe was a chart tragedy. The band continued for a brief period without Hunter and Ronson, but they never reached the heights that Mott The Hoople achieved in the early 70s. The song was played live during the 1974 European tour as the set’s ending but also at the Mott the Hoople Reunion shows in 2009 with it being the closing song of the final gig. I often wonder what might have happened if Ronson and Hunter stayed with Mott The Hoople, based on “Saturday Gigs” I think the future might have been very bright indeed!
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