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Martin Gordon
12+ albums
glamrockrock under 2000 listenersunder 2000 listeners
about
Martin Gordon began his career in the Seventies as bass player with Californian art band Sparks, who found success in the UK with hits ‘This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us' and ‘Amateur Hour' from their 1974 album ‘Kimono My House'. Following his dismissal for reading the newspaper while rehearsing, he moved swiftly on and formed Jet, described by All Music Guide as ‘the first supergroup of glam'. They were also described as 'clambering aboard the glam-rock bandwagon just before the sparkly wheels fell off and deposited the occupants in the cosmic ditch'. Jet featured Gordon, singer Andy Ellison and drummer Chris Townson from legendary proto-punks John's Children. They released a solitary, eponymous album (working with Queen- and Foreigner-producer Roy Thomas Baker) and dissolved in a welter of ill-feeling and lack of interest. In recent years however, the rereleased album has established Jet as the 'missing link between glam and punk rock'. After the demise of Jet, the band reconvened as Radio Stars and achieved a modicum of success with two well-received albums ('Songs for Swinging Lovers' and ‘Holiday Album'. Gordon, ousted in a dental coup, moved to Paris to work as house producer for Barclay Records. During this period he also played bass for the Rolling Stones, recording in Paris at the time. He returned to the UK in the early 80s and, after forming the short-lived Blue Meanies, began working as keyboard player and studio hand with such sensitive artists/bl
