7/23/2023 0 Comments Screaming lord sutch keith moom![]() but some of the b-sides where quite good, original arrangements of rock’n’roll classics.Huey Smith’s Don’t You Just Know It and the Coaster’s I’m A Hog For You (both served as the flip side of Jack the Ripper in different pressings), Bye Bye Baby (flip of Dracula’s Daughter) are all credible, exciting rock’n’roll discs. He cut a string of novelty horror singles, most are fairly unlistenable– Dracula’s Daughter, Monster In Black Tights, She’s Fallen In Love With A Monster, etc. ![]() Quite a few future notables passed through Sutch’s group including Ritchie Blackmore (guitar star of Meek produced instrumental combo the Outlaws and later of Deep Purple), Jimmy Page, Keith Moon (briefly), and others. In 1961 he was discovered by Joe Meek who produced Sutch’s first two horror themed singles– Til The Following Night (HMV) and Jack The Ripper (Decca), the group now billed as Screaming Lord Sutch & his Savages. and in Hamburg where he was a good draw at the Star Club. He was soon packing ’em in all over the U.K. In this manner it took a while for audiences to realize he couldn’t sing two bars in the same key. He brought theatrics to rock’n’roll a good decade before Alice Cooper. His main calling card was a stage show inspired by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and old horror movies, that saw Sutch jumping out of a coffin, chasing semi-nude women around the stage with a meat cleaver, even doing a re-enactment of Jack The Ripper murders to illustrate the tune of he same name (see video clip above). Determined to forge a career in rock’n’roll he made his way to the 2i’s coffee bar in Soho, that incubator of all British pre-Beatles R&R talent (see Vince Taylor posting for more on the 2i’s scene) but was rejected and found a gig at a nearby biker joint called the Cannibal Pot, where he was soon fronting his own outfit– The Raving Savages whose original line up featured future session drummer Carlo Little and pianist Nicky Hopkins. He fell in love with rock’n’roll upon hearing Rock Around The Clock in 1956 (he dug Haley because he was the spitting image of his other hero– Winston Churchill). 10, 1940) was not of royal lineage and in fact grew up in the working class area of Kilburn, North London. He was certainly a photogenic little bugger though, no? Despite the claim on Wikipedia that he was “3rd Earl Of Harrow”, David Sutch (b. Hence, a minor fascination with that notable British rock’n’roll character Lord David Sutch aka Screaming Lord Sutch, proof positive that, sometimes, in the world of rock’n’roll having no talent is sometimes just not enough. Museum object number REDMG : 1980.36.D405.I’m a sucker for a good novelty. This photograph was published in the Berkshire Chronicle on 8 September 1961. Sutch suffered from depression and sadly committed suicide in 1999. ![]() He later forced a career in politics having founded The Official Monster Raving Loony Party in 1983, a registered UK political party famed for its deliberately bizarre policies aimed at satirising British politics. During his music career he worked with Keith Moon, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Charlie Watts and Nicky Hopkins. Sutch gained notoriety for his horror-themed stage show, dressing as Jack the Ripper, pre-dating the shock rock antics of the likes of Alice Cooper. The Majestic attracted many Sixties bands, including more eccentric acts like Screaming Lord Sutch. The Berkshire Chronicle said of Screaming Lord Sutch, "he wears his hair about 18 inches long and always appears in odd clothes like an old tattered loin cloth or some Eskimo outfit". Mr David Apps the manager of the Majestic said he wasn't sure why but teenagers "flock towards Screaming Lord Sutch" who was backed on stage by his band called The Savages. Screaming Lord Sutch, Reading (one of seven) Photograph from Reading Chronicle Collection - September 1961Ģ0 year old Screaming Lord Sutch, an English musician performed at Majestic Ballroom on Caversham Road in Reading for the second time, at an event aimed at teenagers.
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