Alex Harvey often joked that his was the longest internship in the entire history of rock’n’roll. The Glaswegian was 40 by the time he scored his first hit in 1975, when The Sensational Alex Harvey Band covered the old Tom Jones favourite Delilah.
The previous couple of decades had seen him front his Big Soul Band, release a succession of failed solo records and serve in the house band in the West End production of Hair. It was an extended practicum that fed directly into one of SAHB’s most celebrated songs, The Last Of The Teenage Idols.
