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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album caught my eye the other day, was nicely packaged and contained all the hits and their B-sides (plus a couple of singles that missed the charts). Having some worn Bell singles in my box, I took the opportunity to purchase and get some decent sounding versions of these well known songs.
I must say it was worth it. In digital glory both A and B sides are given a new lease of life. There is finally on cd a stereo version of 'The tears I cried' although some of the b-sides are still mono recordings.
Two of the b-sides; Makes you blind and Biscuit are quite funky and not at all what you would expect from Garys former backing band.
All in all an entertaining 55 minutes worth of music.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
After backing Gary Glitter for years The Glitter Band decided that they could find success for themselves and so in 1974 released the first of their 6 top 10 hits "Angel face".That track and their other foot stomping hits are featured on this "The bell collection".Whilst Gary made fun of his singles,The Glitter Band were comitted to being serious and usually involved heartbreak or hopes of living together peacefully.The tunes are catchie and you do find yourselve singing along to the chorus of some of their hits,most noteably "Let's get together" and "Good by my love",their number 2 hit from 1975.They were a talented group who managed to be regarded as artists in their own right and not just a backing group but when they tried hard to shed the Glitter image in 1976,they couldn't and so will be best rememberd for being the group with 2 drummers and the star guitar that had hand clapping hits of the mid 70's.all in all a damned good album of memories for us 70's teenagers.It's ironic that the groups first album was called "Hey!" and now 25 years later we can't quite hear and often say "hey!"
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This CD gathers up all the A & B sides of Gary Glitter's former backing group, themselves a highly bankable chart act in their own right, and reminds us that there was more to life than a double snare drum. Highlight is the superb The Tears I Cried, a UK top 10 hit in 1975, though most fans will love hearing Let's Get Together Again and Angel Face one more time. A note about sound quality: the A sides sound good but the B's are more or less in their original 8-track format, which doesn't always come out well on CD (left-speaker right-speaker production in laymans terms). Which is a shame as some of them show the band experimenting a bit away from the Boy's Own fist-in-the-air hits. Well worth a listen.
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Rolling Back the Years
Was it really that long ago?
Great to finally find an album with all the "b-sides" along with the A's. Read more
Great to finally find an album with all the "b-sides" along with the A's. Read more
Published 23 days ago by Oldbikerboy
All that glitters is not gold
With all due respect to the 7t's label and Cherry Red records, I thought that I was buying digital versions of those marvellous Bell singles from the mid 1970's. Read more
Published on 9 Aug 2007 by Mr. N. P. Fitzsimons
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