Interview With Ian Hunter

IAN HUNTER & THE RANT BAND (Live at The Playhouse, Whitley Bay, U.K., July 3, 2017) — Photo: Mick Burgess

As lead singer in the iconic Mott The Hoople Ian Hunter influenced a generation including Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott. Hunter has just released his latest album with the Rant Band and Metal Express Radio caught up with him on the last night of his European tour to talk about the album, his 30 disc retrospective boxed set and why he turned down David Bowie’s offer of “Suffragette City.”

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Mick Burgess
Mick is a reviewer and photographer here at Metal Express Radio, based in the North-East of England. He first fell in love with music after hearing Jeff Wayne's spectacular The War of the Worlds in the cold winter of 1978. Then in the summer of '79 he discovered a copy of Kiss Alive II amongst his sister’s record collection, which literally blew him away! He then quickly found Van Halen I and Rainbow's Down To Earth, and he was well on the way to being rescued from Top 40 radio hell! Over the ensuing years, he's enjoyed the Classic Rock music of Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, and Deep Purple; the AOR of Journey and Foreigner; the Pomp of Styx and Kansas; the Progressive Metal of Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, and Symphony X; the Goth Metal of Nightwish, Within Temptation, and Epica, and a whole host of other great bands that are too numerous to mention. When he's not listening to music, he watches Sunderland lose more football (soccer) matches than they win, and occasionally, if he has to, he goes to work as a property lawyer.
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