Sensational Alex Harvey Band 'Framed' live 1974 HQ (SAHB)

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band 'Framed' - 'I never did nothing!' HQ quality, not a lousy VHS copy! Alex Harvey was at his peak at this hippie festival in Norway and he keeps the crowd transfixed with his epic version of Leiber/Stoller's 1954 doo-wop b-side 'Framed'. He'd performed this song for years, since his Soul Band days, and it became the title-track of the first Sensational Alex Harvey Band LP. A great live act as is witnessed, full of drama with the excellent band, they gained a big live following and even achieved a couple of hits. Somehow got lumped in with the glam-rock of the time but seems more of a theatrical precursor to punk and Ian Dury, as well as mining the traditions of rock'n'roll and music hall.
'Midnight Moses' in HQ from the same Ragnarock Festival show is here:    • Sensational Alex Harvey Band 'Midnigh...  
Sadly Alex Harvey died of a heart attack in 1982.

More info here:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sen...

Lyrics:-
I'm walking down the street mindin' my own affair
When two policemen grabbed me and I'm unaware
They said "Is your name Alexander?" and I said "Why, sure!"
They said "You're the cat that we've been looking for."

But I was framed
I was framed
I never did nothing
But now I was, I was framed

The cops took me to a little room where the bright lights shine
There was ten poor souls like me standin' in the line
I knew I was the victim of somebody's evil plan
When a stool pigeon looked at me an' said....

That's your man!

But I was framed
I was framed
I never did nothing
But now I was, I was framed

Then the public prosecutor started prosecutin' me
That man wanted to find what was my pedigree
He said "Where were you on the third of June 1963?"

Them cats with rubber hoses started givin' me the third degree....

But I was framed
I was framed
I never did nothing
But now I was, I was framed
(Leiber/Stoller)

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