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Mott the Hoople albums:
The Hoople

The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll (Ian Hunter)
Marionette (Ian Hunter)
Alice (Ian Hunter)
Crash Street Kids (Ian Hunter)
Born Late '58 (Overend Watts)
Trudi's Song (Ian Hunter)
Pearl 'n' Roy (England) (Ian Hunter)
Through the Looking Glass (Ian Hunter)
Roll Away the Stone (Ian Hunter)

CBS 69062 released in UK 29th March 1974.

Recorded by Line-up 3

Produced by Ian Hunter, Dale Griffin and Overend Watts
Arranged by Ian Hunter except 'Born Late '58' arranged
by Overend Watts
Recorded at Advision Studios, London W1, January 1974
Engineer: Mike Dunn with Paul Hardiman
Re-mixed and dubbed at AIR (London) Studios 2
and 3 February 1974
Engineer: Bill Price with Sean Milligan, Gary Edwards
and Pete Swettenham
Here, There and Everywhere: Alan 'Madswitcher' Harris
Production Supervisor; Dan Loggons
Equipment by Ritchie, Phil and Eddie
Our man half-way up somewhere: Stan Tippins

Other musicians: Howie Casey - Tenor Saxophone
Jock McPherson - Tenor and Baritone Saxophone
Graham Preskitt - Violin and Orchestration
Barry St John, Sue and Sunny - Backing Vocals
Overend Watts plays rythym guitar on 'Born Late 58'
Mick Ralphs joins in the picket line chorus on 'Pearl and Roy' and adds rythym guitar on 'Roll Away the Stone'
Lynsey de Paul is the female in the chat-up bit
on 'Roll Away the Stone'

'Roll Away the Stone' on this album is a different recording to the one that appeared on the CBS single in November 1973.

Half Moon Bay says...

The music... A formula record to some extent; for 'Whizz Kid' on Mott read 'Alice' here, for 'Violence' read 'Crash Street Kids', which was even on the same place on this album as 'Violence' was on Mott. Still, 'Golden Age...', 'Alice', 'Born Late' and '...Stone' are worth the purchase price alone. Back in the dark days of March 74, I remember reading a review of this in Sounds by Barbara Charonne, and she didn't like the record very much. To my shame, I took notice of what she said (I was an impressionable teenager, in defence, your honour) and didn't buy it on release. However, radio play of 'Golden Age...' soon had my curiosity aroused and I felt it silly to just buy such a great single when I might as well get the album. I have never let a review sway me in the same way again.

The artwork... Personally, I find the cover of this record the best of the lot. It was conceived by Roslav Szaybo (house CBS art director), photography by John Brown and the model was Kari-Ann. Note that Morgan Fisher does not appear in Kari-Anns hair... As with the 'Dudes' cover, there are differences between my original sleeve and the current Columbia CD (scanned above) sleeve; the band logo on the CD seems to be the same as that later used on the 'Live' record (American releases all feature this style), whereas the original featured a logo built around the Mott device from the UK 'Mott' album and adding the phrase 'the Hoople'. The inner sleeve contained all the nitty-gritty as well as the lyrics.