Album · Mott the Hoople
The Hoople by Mott the Hoople
The Hoople is an album by Mott the Hoople, released in 1974. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Roll Away The Stone”, on 2 lists with a best position of #263.
The Hoople, Mott the Hoople's seventh and final studio album, came out on Columbia in 1974, the year after Mott, and it catches the band David Bowie had coaxed back from the brink running at full glam-rock throttle. Ian Hunter is out front on vocals and piano, Overend Watts on bass, Dale Griffin on drums and Morgan Fisher on keyboards, and there's a new gunslinger on guitar: Ariel Bender, in for Mick Ralphs, who still turns up on two tracks.
It would be Bender's only studio album with the band and Hunter's last before he left for a solo career, so enjoy the swagger while it lasts. Creem's readers voted it the 16th best album of 1974, and it got to number 11 in Britain. The sleeve is a stylised portrait of Kari-Ann Moller, the face on Roxy Music's 1972 debut, with the band tangled up in her hair.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Hoople on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roll Away The Stone | 2 | #263 | – | 2020–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.