Keep Me Hangin’ On – The Darkness

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I was convinced that a glam rock band a) should be American b) had to make music in the 1980s. Then I found The Darkness. As you already figured it out, they are not Americans (Suffolk at its best) and in connection with time periods, they were founded in 2000 by brothers Justin and Dan Hawkins.  What I personally found interesting is how they remained out of the mainstream zone, yet popular enough to reach the top of the UK charts. 

Following on their musical career, it looks like glam rock bands have a well-proven 40-year-old recipe for how to have a successful rock band: 

  1. Play 1 or 2 years in small clubs without any major success.

  2. Seems as a joke to the press.

  3. Release a single and became an instant hit.

  4. Write songs for arena concerts (even if you don’t play there), catchy refrains are must.

  5. Appraised by the press.

  6. Touring with Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Hollywood Vampires.

  7. Find the vintage store where Steven Tyler’s clothes are sold.

  8. Have falsettos like Steven Tyler.

  9. Be Steven Tyler.

  10. Enter rehab for alcohol and cocaine abuse.

+1. Without the frontman try to be as cool as the original lineup, then realise you are not cool without him and reunite. 

Hot Cakes titled album was released in 2012, firstly after the reunion. “Keep Me Hangin’ On” serves the purpose of a well-written feelgood song: great riffs, upbeat tempo, addictive refrain that you shout out loud, while you get your hair-do! 

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About the Curator - Fanni Gyenes

Thanks for her parents’ Yugoslavian pressed vinyl collection, Fanni was surrounded by music from a very young age in Budapest, Hungary where she grew up and currently lives. As a philologist, she wrote for a Hungarian online music magazine and was a band manager of two bands for three years during her university years. 

At present, she is studying as an assistant director and working in films. She believes that music is one of the most powerful art forms that bonds people regardless distance, culture and ethnicity. As a loyal szitizen (sic!), she attends on Hungary’s most famous music festival, Sziget Festival every year. 

In her free time she loves travelling, reading classics, taking pictures, gardening and learning new languages, she is getting familiar with Russian and Italian lately.  You can find Fanni on Instagram and Twitter.

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Thanks for her parents’ Yugoslavian pressed vinyl collection, Fanni was surrounded by music from a very young age in Budapest, Hungary where she grew up and currently lives. As a philologist, she wrote for a Hungarian online music magazine and was a band manager of two bands for three years during her university years. At present, she is studying as an assistant director and working in films. She believes that music is one of the most powerful art forms that bonds people regardless distance, culture and ethnicity. As a loyal szitizen (sic!), she attends on Hungary’s most famous music festival, Sziget Festival every year. In her free time she loves travelling, reading classics, taking pictures, gardening and learning new languages, she is getting familiar with Russian and Italian lately. You can find Fanni on Instagram and Twitter.