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Rosie are one of those quasi-mystical glam rock bands from the 1970s for whom the phrase “quintessentially English” could have been coined. From their King’s Road vs Ken(sington) Market boutique chic to their very name; Cockney Rhyming Slang for the great British cure-all “cuppa”, Rosie (Lee) tea, after the infamous stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. So authentic were Rosie that they even had their own gun-toting Gypsy in tow in the form of roadie Sven, himself sartorially a parrot and a wooden leg short of being Long John Silver. However, Rosie was actually formed in snowy Belgium, following a meeting in St. Nicklaas in 1973 when former Streak (“Bang Bang Bullet”) member Rick Sharp (voc/gtr) answered a “loony ad” (sic) placed in Melody Maker by “Killer” Kane lookalike and songwriter Paul Ketley (voc/bass), Leo Lehr (gtr) and Jochen Mayer (drums) who had driven several hundred miles from Berlin to welcome Rick into their fold. Returning to Germany with Rick, plus his suitcase and guitar, looking like stick-thin stunt doubles for The Hollywood Brats, they started playing their self-described “fun rock” to the Berlin decadents, who, like Queen Victoria, were not amused. Quickly deciding that Germans were no fun, Rosie relocated to the UK.
Tracklist
1. Zoo Song
2. Rosie's Coming To Town
Soundwave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R6Lkoa2XUY