Mott the Hoople (1973): Mott the Hoople followed up the outsized attention brought on by "All the Young Dudes" with a similarly infectious set of songs -- as long as you didn't pay too much attention to the lyrics. Closer listens reveal an air of growing disenchantment with all of tha...
The lyrics to "Redondo Beach," the second song onHorses,first appeared as a poem under the name "Radando Beach" in Smith's 1972 poetry collectionkodak.She saved the words and revisited them for the album, turning her original idea into an upbeat reggae-leaning rock song. At the time, t...