Legendary English singer-songwriter and musician Ian Hunter joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about making music with Mick Ronson, the "weird feeling when you get a message from a Beatle on your answering machine," his new album "Defiance Part 1" and much more on "Everything Fab Four," a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon.
Hunter, best known as the lead singer of rock band Mott the Hoople – which shot to stardom in the early '70s with the David Bowie-penned hit "All the Young Dudes" – says he grew up in the "opposite" of a musical household. As he told Womack, his parents "were good people who brought me up properly, but it wasn't exciting enough. I had to get out of there." He began looking for that excitement in music and, "as a lark," entered a Butlin's Holiday Camp talent competition as part of a trio — and won.
