Talk:Alex Harvey (musician)

Delta Dawn
He wrote " Delta Dawn" for Helen Reddy, what was the story behind the song?

Might there be two Alex Harveys, then? This page discusses Alex Harvey and "Delta Dawn" in terms that strongly suggest he ain't our boy:


 * Alex Harvey’s songs stick in the mind long after the performance is finished. As a songwriter, he has created some of the hits of the seventies, among them the haunting “Delta Dawn” and “Reuben James.”


 * Alex Harvey wanted to be a performer as far back as he can remember, from his childhood in Brownsville, Tennessee, where he first heard black gospel music and, via radio, The Grand Ole Opry. He participated in high school and college productions, either on stage, backstage or both and earned a master’s degree in music from Murray State University in Kentucky. While acting in a summer drama there, Harvey met Billy Edd Wheeler, a singer/songwriter who was also playing a role in the production. That was a turning point in Harvey’s life.

-- Smerdis of Tlön 14:38, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

If you search for Alex Harvey at discogs you will find:

Alex Harvey (2) Real Name: Thomas Alexander Harvey Profile: American country singer born on March 10, 1947.

This is not the vocalist/guitarist of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

—— The disambiguation page here has both of them, but they point to this page. Donpayette (talk) 01:28, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

McKennas
Hugh and Ted McKenna WERE cousins, but NOT Alex Harvey's cousins. Maxwell, the current band's singer was NOT a member of the Shamen, he only appeared as an actor in their video for Ebeneezer Goode.--59.167.111.246 14:14, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Discography
Hi,

I'm a bit suprised that this has no mention of what i think is Alex's last album "the Mafia Stole My Guitar". While not the best, there's still some good stuff on that last album. It seems more of a SAHB article than an Alex Harvey article.

The discography is certainly incomplete. Gordonbell 10:27, 19 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree it's incomplete - it omits one single that I recall hearing played Top of the Pops as part of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band in 1976, 'Are you going to the Boston Tea Party?', although I don't know how high it charted.Cloptonson (talk) 20:13, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Didn't Alex break with the rest of the SAHB
My brain may be playing a trick on me, but I recall going to an Alex Harvey concert in London at which the rest of the SAHB were conspicuously missing. There were calls from the audience along the lines of "We want Zal" to which Alex responded along the lines of "You don't need those f***ers!". He had a band of session musicians with him and played his own numbers. It was OK, but nothing like the SAHB, which I had seen before at a smaller provincial venue. The article reads as if the SAHB were together until Alex croaked. Can anyone clarify? GrahamDavies 21:49, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

By the time they released "Fourplay" (Feb '77) Alex had left.


 * I'm wondering why SAHB redirects to here. Alex Harvey and SAHB are not the same thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.68.37.61 (talk) 14:25, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Wow
A day short of the 27 club with his brother... too weird.

Tribute bands
I'm removing the mentions of tribute bands under Alex_Harvey on grounds of notability (lack thereof). It read: Since 2005, Not The Sensational Alex Harvey Band has been performing in Switzerland. Alex Harvey is portrayed by fellow Scot Gustav Bertha. In 2008 a new Alex Harvey tribute, VAMBO ROOLS, was formed in the Cleveland, Ohio region of the United States. Hope that sits okay with others.--Rfsmit (talk) 18:49, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Notability guidelines apply only to the subject of the article, Alex Harvey (musician). Tribute bands are tributes to the subject, and so deserve a mention. I have added them back under a new section, Alex Harvey (musician). HairyWombat 23:33, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Frank Sidebottom
Memory may be playing tricks on me, but I thought Harvey's role was taken on by Frank Sidebottom for the university circuit in the 90s. Can't anyone else find anything on that?--Rfsmit (talk) 18:53, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

alcoholism and death of manager missing
Harvey s life offstage was beset by tragedy and his own alcoholism: his younger brother, Les, was electrocuted on stage; his manager and friend Billy Fehilly was killed in a plane crash. Eventually with his band in tatters, Alex sank into a sea of alcohol, finally succumbing to a fatal heart attack whilst waiting for a ferry home from a gig in Belgium in 1982, the day before his 47th birthday.--Penbat (talk) 16:46, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Also apparently after his manager died he had serious legal problems and couldnt appear with his own band for years.--Penbat (talk) 18:13, 29 September 2011 (UTC

Why is there no band page?
Surely The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (or SAHB) is important enough to warrant its own page. 92.41.135.228 (talk) 21:12, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band is certainly more notable than Harvey's solo career and should have its own page. I'm not the right person to make one so I hope somebody will. Roope (talk) 11:40, 17 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Five years on and still no SAHB page - for one of the most distinctive UK rock bands ever! Stub Mandrel (talk) 20:46, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Hot City
Link to album page is incorrect. Goes to an album of the same name by Gene Page. Bookman64 (talk) 17:53, 25 February 2023 (UTC)