Yes,
every website I make, I feel obliged to mention my Uncle's band,
Mud. I think it's only right really! So, if you fancy it, read
the bottom text documenting Mud's past (taken from a CD sleeve!)
Below are some pics too! Enjoy.
By the way, please refrain from requesting
autographs or memorabilia, I simply can't successfully fulfil
everyone's request!
A
few original exclusive Pictures! Thanks to Kitty Mount (Nanny)
to whom these pictures belong!
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in the mid-Seventies Mud proved to be one of the most successful
pop groups of the period, scoring no less than 11 Top 10 hit singles
(including eight consecutive ones, and a trio of number one hits
with
Tiger Feet, Lonely This Christmas and Oh Boy), plus several best-selling
albums. Twenty years on it is maybe easy to dismiss their music
as lightweight and ephemeral hut no one con ignore the fact that
Mud were responsible for the soles of several million singles
during a period of less than four years.
The group, comprising lead vocalist Les Gray, boss player Roy
Stiles, guitarist Rob Davis and drummer Dave Mount, had already
been gigging for several years - and hod even released a one-oft
single for CBS Records - before being signed by top record producer
Mickie Most to his Rak Records label in late 1972. Most already
hod a solid reputation as a record producer, having been responsible
for many hits by such pop acts as The Animals (The House Of The
Rising Sun, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, etc), Lulu (To Sir
With Love, The Boat That I Row), Jeff Beck (Hi-Ho Silver Lining)
and Brendon Lee (Is it True?), and his instinct for a hit pop
act soon paid dividends.
In March 1973 the group had their first hit record when Crazy
climbed to number 12 in the charts, and had a 12-week chart residency.
Three months later Mud hod a second Top 20 hit with Hypnosis which
reached number 16, and secured a 13-week run in the Top 50. In
October 1973 the group chalked up their third consecutive hit
single with Dynamite, which exploded into the Top 10, peaking
at number 4 and enjoying a 12-week chart run. By now the hits
were coming thick and fast, and January 1974 saw Mud sitting triumphantly
at the top of the charts for four weeks with the highly-infectious
Tiger Feet.
Mud had a further four hit singles on Rak - The Secrets That You
Keep which reached number 3, a revival of Buddy Holly's perennial
Oh Boy which topped the charts for two weeks in May 1975 (and
was their only hit of the period not to be written by China and
Chapman, although they produced the single), Moonshine Sally which
was a Top 10 hit in July of that year, and One Night which peaked
at number 32 two months later.
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My
favourite record as
a kid was Mud Rock I |
During
Mud's three year residency with Rak they also had two big-selling
albums, 1974's Mud Rock which reached number 3, and spent
a total of 35 weeks in the charts, and 1975's Mud Rock Vol.2
which climbed to number 6 and remained in the Top 50 for
12 weeks. Later that year a Greatest Hits compendium also
made the UK top 30.
Soon afterwards the band split from Rak Records and signed
with another label, securing a further four hit records.
During their three-year association with Rak Records the
group had built an impressive tally of over a hundred weeks
in the singles chart, and 53 weeks in the albums chart -
not bad for a group whose music has often been derided by
some of pop music's snootier fans.
Unlike other pop acts both before, and since, Mud were only
ever guilty of releasing good unpretentious rock and roll
music that caught the mood and imagination of the pop fans
of their era.
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