Album: Best Of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (1975)
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  • This song is Part 1 of Harvey's Hot City Symphony; it runs to 5 minutes and 2 seconds. The Vambo character is based on Harvey's adolescent years "on the mean streets of Glasgow." Harvey's biographer John Neil Munro says his widow Trudy believes the name was derived from their son's baby talk; the character itself has been described as a cross between Santa Claus and Captain Marvel. >>
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    Alexander Baron - London, England

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  • Stephen from SaltcoatsWe took VAMBO to stand for 'virgins and mammy's boys only.'
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