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Martin Gordon began his career in the Seventies as bass player with Californian art band Sparks, who found success in the UK with hits ‘This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us' and ‘Amateur Hour' from their 1974 album ‘Kimono My House'. Following his dismissal for reading the newspaper while rehearsing, he moved swiftly on and formed Jet, described by All Music Guide as ‘the first supergroup of glam'. They were also described as 'clambering aboard the glam-rock bandwagon just before the sparkly wheels fell off and deposited the occupants in the cosmic ditch'.
Jet featured Gordon, singer Andy Ellison and drummer Chris Townson from legendary proto-punks John's Children. They released a solitary, eponymous album (working with Queen- and Foreigner-producer Roy Thomas Baker) and dissolved in a welter of ill-feeling and lack of interest. In recent years however, the rereleased album has established Jet as the 'missing link between glam and punk rock'.
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