The album with Faith Healer. No one else around the midwest, apart from us guys, was following this kind of music. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were incredible. They were another band I knew about from reading people like Chris Welch. I could picture what they sounded like just from reading, because back then the writers were real writers. I never got to see The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, but I could visualise what they were like. Alex Harvey got up and played with us at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1980, a couple of years before he died. We did ‘Shakin’ All Over’ and he ate a cassette – what the fuck? They were a mash of cool stuff: the music was haunting and heavy and fun, all at the same time.
Selected in other Baker’s Dozens: Saxon, Ian Rankin
