It was one of those lyrics that just flowed after the original idea or theme has taken hold. The same thing happened with ' Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)' for which I wrote most of the lyrics with Tony Macaulay in late 1969. Both were completed with no re-writes in under two hours."

It's been said that Zal is also working on a fictional post apocalyptic novel called Rool which is yet to be completed. When the session work decreased, Zal returned to day-to-day jobs including as a computer consultant and reading electric meters. Harvey was instrumental in the formation of the band Stone the Crows by introducing his younger brother Leslie "Les" Harvey to singer Maggie Bell. Also in Stone the Crows was bassist James Dewar, later of Robin Trower fame. [6] Les Harvey was fatally electrocuted in a freak accident while performing with the band in 1972. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band had top 40 hits in Britain with the single " Delilah", a cover version of the Tom Jones hit from their Live album that reached number seven in 1975, and with "The Boston Tea Party" in June 1976. [4] The song "Anthem" was a top 30 hit in Australia in 1975. [7]SAHB tried to carry on as the Zal Band, but as Cleminson says, “The minute Alex wasn’t there, there was nothing to fire off – there was no reason to be on stage.”

What about latter period SAHB — is there anything worth hearing post Stories? Are any of the pre SAHB albums valid or are they ill conceived attempts by record companies to cash in with quantity over quality? I’d love to hear your comments. Live Archives Finding a way to put 'Lulling Samson to sleep in her lap, Delilah alerted the Philistine rulers who waited in the shadows to capture him. They sheared Samson's hair and, in his newly weakened state, bound him, gouged out his eyes, and forced him to grind grain in the prison at Gaza' into a modern context, was not easy, though I must admit, later on Leonard Cohen did manage to do an amazing job with ' Hallelujah' in 1984. It was not an easy task for him either. He apparently 'wrote around 80 draft verses for 'Hallelujah,' with one writing session at the Royalton Hotel in New York where he was reduced to sitting on the floor in his underwear, banging his head on the floor.' Iwan then told The Guardian he wasn't trying to get the song banned, but he was trying to get people to think about the songs they sing. "All I can hope for – and perhaps that hope will now be partly fulfilled – is that next time you belt out this very singable song, you spare a thought for the poor woman who 'laughs no more,' and avoid feeling any sympathy for the poor sod who killed her because he 'just couldn't take any more.'" I think we’d have got on a lot better if we’d both cleaned up our act. By the end we’d stopped talking completely. I couldn’t do it without a drink by then. A guy from a record company showed up one night, and I think Alex felt if I’d said I was into working with him again, we’d have been offered a deal. But I wasn’t paying attention.” In 2006, he appeared in his début acting role as Wilson in the western film A Shot in the West, for which he wrote the theme music.It was an experiment, to see what would happen if I tried to work again,” Harvey explained. “I thought the management might do something, but I wanted to know how far it would go. It took a lot of unravelling but I’m able to work again – they tell me I set a precedent or something.” a b c d e f g Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Conciseed.). Virgin Books. p.1070. ISBN 1-85227-745-9.