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Rubettes featuring Alan Williams
The Rubettes’ first and biggest hit was “Sugar Baby Love” (1974) which was a UK number one, going on to sell around 500,000 copies in the UK and a reported global sale of three million copies. Two million copies being sold in France alone, an achievement matched by no other British group. In November 1974 NME music magazine reported that The Rubettes, The Glitter Band and Mud were among the UK bands who had roles in a new film titled Never Too Young To Rock.
The Rubettes went on to have a number of other hits across Europe during the mid 1970s such as “Tonight”, “Juke Box Jive” and “I Can Do It” sung by Alan Williams, mostly written by the Bickerton-Waddington songwriting team.
Their most successful self composed hit was the country rock styled ballad “Baby I Know”, which reached number 10 in the UK and Germany in 1977. They played as a quintet since early 1975 and always as a quartet since mid 1976 (Bill Hurd became an out-off-staff member).
The band continued releasing records into the 1980s, then re-grouped in 1983 in order to exploit the German market for 1970s nostalgia.
In 1994, the group’s profile was raised by the inclusion of “Sugar Baby Love” in the hit movie, Muriel’s Wedding. This song was also featured in the 2005 Neil Jordan film, Breakfast on Pluto soundtrack.
On 28 March 2008 “Sugar Baby Love” was declared to be the most successful oldie of all time by the German television station RTL.
For 20 years since their reformation in the early 80's the Rubettes line up had remained virtually unchanged until a parting of the ways occurred at the end of the last millennium. Since then their have been two 'Rubettes' bands. The Rubettes featuring Alan Williams is the more 'Original' of them as it includes in it's line up three of the original members of the Rubettes that took Sugar Baby Love to No.1 the World over and then went on to have many more hit's. Most familiar in that line up was Alan Williams lead vocalist and guitarist hence the name and reason for The Rubettes featuring Alan Williams. Also featured are original Rubettes John Richardson on Drums and Mick Clarke on Bass Guitar along with newcomer Mark Haley on keyboards and Guitar.
The Rubettes featuring Alan Williams continue to play at gigs and functions around the UK.
