I Like this Song. Well done.

1976

I'm a lifelong punk but Sugar Baby Love would be a Desert Island Disc for me. Sublime pop music that equals anything ever recorded for me. Still sounds great and brilliantly played produced and recorded.

Perfect !

I love you ❤❤❤❤

Thank you!!!!

tony thorpe vocals et guitar

Paul Da Vinci the original singer of suger baby love

Perfect🎉

Reporter hopes for front page on Rubette band members. Tony remembers his friends as ordinary and down to Earth. 💯 Respect

Sugar Baby Love, 50 years old in March. what a song. Sparks luckily got to do TOTPs a couple of months later after they couldnt do it in the March and Rubbets at No 51 got that gig. Happy days were 1974 for me

Hello Tony, is that possible to play guitar with you for a few moment ?

This is who i had a crush on hes still beautiful.

I've loved this since the first time I heard it back in the eighties. It freaked me out until I realised it's Pontius Pilate dressed as Alexei Sayle.

I would love the person who 'borrowed' my cassette copy of Cooger & Dark's 'Balls To Picasso' about fifteen years ago to return it...this was the first track on side B.

Thank you for posting this! I'm in love with Tony's voice lol

Always my favorite, since I was a child. Mr. Thorpe, your vocal is amazing.

Beautiful ❤

Amazing. ❤❤❤

Wow, lovely to hear my Dad blowing with you again ❤️

What a lovely song and Tony is a lovely singer. I love it that we get to hear all The Rubettes taking a turn at singing ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Love this ❤❤

miss the vocals from the group.

Top interview. How does the writer of such big hits end up selling his guitars to pay gas bills?

I was such pleasant child till rock and roll, [rock and roll], took away my peace of my and my selfcontrol, [selfcontrol], soon I was so sure that I was God's great gift to a generation I was sorely bound to be a star. I bought myself a fender and a super twin, [super twin], toughened up my vocal chords whit Gordon gin, [Gordon gin], played around for months and never made the news. Soon I had the rock and roll survival blues. I drove around from gig to gig in a rusty van, [rusty van], dreaming of a limousine and a livery man, [livery man], I simply couldn't understand why I was still the local standby when I was heaven made to be a star. The years went by and still I'm on the same old scene, [same old scene], never getting the publicity teen machine, [teen machine], now I knew what they meant about playing your dues. 'cos I had the rock and roll survival blues. They years went by the bands went by and I played on, [I played on], I could not understand where I was going wrong, [going wrong], so I split from the music city, went too school in a northern backroom just sat down and learned myself the blues. Then I made a record and now here I am, [here I am], I don't know how it happened but who gives a damn, [gives a damn], I only know I love you now you got the news, I ain't no rock and roll revival, [I ain't no rock and roll revival], I got the rock and roll survival. Blues.

i dont no what happend realy between this men something about problems music tony wanted country etc but i have the feeling they treated him not verry nice. alan is to blame the most for it they say but i good be wrong. i always liked alan williams his looks etc. seems verry nice in intervieuws. but hard to say. but i like the rubettes.

Nice to hear Tony talking about his bandmates. I laughed what he said about what Alan when they got into first class on the train. I would have loved to have been there and heard him say it. I loved the Rubettes but like every other young girl I loved Alan ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂

Good version, but I still Prefer the Original because of the banking vocals. Wim Calis, Dendermonde, Belgium.

thony had to leave the group not verry nice for him. but it is hard to judge about that. i dont like this verry much. but it is well done i mean they play the guitars verry well.

Kreatura.

Ton Topor na starość. Żałosny facet. Wokalista jednego przeboju.

verry good but verry different sad he had so manny problems with the rubettes i like alan williams a lot he was is the frontman of the band but he is fighting with al the old members. of the group. i realy have no idea who has right. but a solo career why not but it was nice to see them together for a short reunion. alan john tony mick Pete i think after so manny years that wood have been nice. i think that will never happen but i realy must say i like alan williams the most of the group his charisma looks voice the way he is nice with people at concerts only as a performer. but as a human beiing i realy dont no. Tony has a verry good voice i have the feeling he deserve more credits as he gets. but oh boy alan was is the leadsinger frontman of the group. i think. he wants to handle everything. i believe i understand that. i see saw video's with his new members he is in his seventies but he performs verry well. with the others. that is what i like about the rubettes alan williams. but i feel sorry for the old menbers they deserve credits to.

i always had a crush on alan williams his looks etc.he seems verry nice in intervieuws but t think tony is verry nice and perhaps to good for the group. but it is sad that they not stayed together. they good have played everything together country the glamrock. if they stayed together they good have made music from the glamrock periode the 50ties everything perhaps some country. ftom everything a little bit .i think people liked that verry much. for me the real rubettes john alan tony and mick. i grew up with the music. nice and verry good in live.

i like alan williams the most about his looks charming etc. but he tells not verry much. nothing about personal lifes etc. private i think. alan williams seems verry nice in intervieuws. but what do i know he is doiing well with his band the rubettes feat alan williams it wood be so nice if they stayed together alan john tony mick etc. t have the feeling thony deserves more than he get. but perhaps i am wrong.

still hard to believe he was a member of this glamrock group. with the charming alan williams but i think they treated him not well.

their where a lot troubles with the band sad after so manny years ago.

not for money i heard that before. but okay he is verry different then alan williams realy different good singer. i hardly can believe that he was a member of the glamrock group but he seems nice.

Terrible que du bonheur 😂❤

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Great beat tune

Adoro ele c os Rubettes😊 e realmente pouco lembrado grande musico

Git er done boys !!!!!

Tony indeed sang it , but didn't write it.

Wonderfully performed by Tony Thorpe, the guitar and piano sequences are excellent. But this song in the "Sign Of The Times" album was credited to Richardson-Williams as composers.

Love it !👌

Beautiful !

Wahnsinnsstimme - und das auch live! Ein Text, der unter die Haut geht! Bravo! Besser geht's nicht!

Encore un excellent album qui balance, avec des chœurs au top, comme on en n'entend plus guère...J'adore aussi leurs balades plus tendres et les morceaux funs comme on en trouve sur ce vinyl (que je conserve pieusement avec tous les autres + les 45 T de l'époque sur lesquels je sautais dès leur sortie )! Je suis très heureuse d'avoir pu connaître en direct leur faste période...Fan de la première heure, ma mère m'avait même offert un costume blanc pattes d'éléphant - on était dans les '70 ! - avec des bordures rouges pour être raccord avec mes idoles😂 Je chantais leurs chansons avec ma copine dans la cour de récré de primaire quand les autres en étaient encore à jouer les claudettes de Cloclo! Dommage que les groupes finissent toujours - ou presque- par imploser...Bon vent néanmoins à chacun d'entre eux qui nous ont tellement régalés et nous éclatent encore aujourd'hui ! Votre œuvre vous survivra et ça c'est cool😊❤

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Thank you dear friend