Альбомы исполнителя
Smile
1994 · альбом
The Rubettes' Greatest Hits
1989 · сборник
Foe-Dee-Oh-Dee (Sped Up 10 %) (Remastered 2023)
2023 · сингл
I Can Do It (Sped Up 20 %) (Rerecording)
2023 · сингл
I Can Do It (Sped Up 10 %) (Rerecording)
2023 · сингл
Baby I Know
2023 · сингл
Foe-Dee-Oh-Dee
2023 · сингл
I Can Do It
2023 · сингл
Juke Box Jive
2023 · сингл
Little Darling
2023 · сингл
Sugar Baby Love
2023 · сингл
The Best of the Rubettes
2023 · сборник
Tonight
2023 · сингл
Under One Roof
2023 · сингл
You’re the Reason Why
2023 · сингл
Together We Stand
2022 · сингл
I Can't Believe It's Christmas
2021 · сингл
Shangri'la
2021 · альбом
Still Unwinding
2021 · альбом
Mix 2020
2020 · сингл
Sugar Baby Love (Remastered 2022)
1974 · сингл
The Rubettes (Megamix)
2016 · сингл
Plastic Christmas (feat. Alan Williams)
2015 · сингл
I Can Do It (Re-Recording Remastered 2022)
1974 · сингл
Foddie O Dee
2012 · сингл
Sugar Baby Love
2011 · сингл
Sugar Baby Love
2011 · Мини-альбом
21st Century Rock 'n' Roll (feat. Bill Hurd)
2010 · альбом
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Биография
Formed in 1973 in England, the Rubettes were originally organized as a session outfit by Wayne Bickerton of Polydor A&R. Inspired by the successes of Sha Na Na, Mud, and Showaddywaddy, they combined glam rock presentation (red and white suits with matching caps) with a rock & roll revival sound. Their first release, 1974's "Sugar Baby Love," was an instant smash, remaining at number one in England for five weeks while denting the U.S. charts at number 37 in August, and remains their best-known record. Subsequent releases would be less successful, but the band soldiered on and continued to tour on the nostalgia circuit well into the 2000s. "Sugar Baby Love" was recorded in October 1973 by a group of session musicians, with Paul DaVinci singing lead. Three months after the song's recording, the band was established with a lineup consisting of vocalist/guitarist Alan Williams, John Richardson on drums, Mick Clarke on bass, Bill Hurd and Peter Arnesen on keyboards, and Tony Thorpe on guitar. The Rubettes' name, like their music, was selected to consciously tap into '50s America iconography, and the revival sound bore fruit in the U.K. on several more singles: The "Sugar Baby Love" sound-alike "Tonight" was a strong follow-up, and "Jukebox Jive" and "I Can Do It" went Top Ten there as well. None charted in the States, though, and the group moved from glammy nostalgia into more serious territory. They turned many a head with 1976's "Under One Roof," a sensitive portrayal of a gay man disowned and later murdered by his father; along with Rod Stewart's "The Killing of Georgie," it was one of very few songs tackling the difficult topic of homophobia. The track reached the Top 40, and the band scored one more Top Ten hit with 1977's "Baby I Know" before they dissolved by the end of the decade. In 1982, though, at the urging of a German promoter, Williams re-formed the group for festival shows. Redubbed the Rubettes featuring Alan Williams to counteract other acts passing themselves off as the Rubettes, the reconstituted unit continued to tour Europe in oldies revival packages intermittently into the 2000s, with original members Richardson and Clarke back in the fold along with ex-Kinks keyboardist Mark Haley. ~ Joseph McCombs, Rovi