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Years active. 1965–2008, 2017–present. Alistair Macdonald " Zal " Cleminson (born 4 May 1949) is a Scottish guitarist, best known for his role in the Sensational Alex Harvey Band between 1972 and 1978. He was subsequently a member of Nazareth for three years. In 2017, Cleminson put together a new rock band - /sin'dogs/, which recorded and ...
Jun 25, 2023 · At the suggestion of Manny Charlton, the group’s old friend Zal Cleminson, from The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, was invited to join for arguably the heaviest Nazareth record of all, 1979’s No Mean City. The twin-guitar sound worked well on May The Sunshine and Star, which both became hit singles, even in the UK.
While Cleminson’s time with Nazareth was short, his legacy looms large nonetheless. In the modern age, Cleminson continues to make music on his own terms, fostering a scene of self through his music and other artistic endeavors. To be sure, Zal Cleminson’s legacy as an unheralded glam rock forefather is set in stone, but his musical future ...
The release of the album coincided with Nazareth's fortieth anniversary tour, which started on 25 January in Sweden and went to most of Europe. It finished on 4 November 2008 in Norway. A follow-up album, Big Dogz, was released on 15 April 2011. Jimmy Murrison and Linton Osborne at the Picture On Festival, August 2014
Malice in Wonderland is the eleventh studio album by Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in January 1980. [1] After the heavy lurch of the previous album, the band chose to follow a more commercial path and the album produced the hit singles "Holiday" and "Heart's Grown Cold". This is the second and last studio album to feature guitarist ...
Jul 25, 2022 · The album was the follow-up to 1979’s No Mean City, which had seen the introduction of a new guitarist, the band's old friend Zal Cleminson from the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. The twin-guitar sound had worked well on No Mean City' s May The Sunshine and Star , which both became hit singles, but the winning formula didn't last.
Zal Cleminson. British rock guitarist and vocalist, born 4 May 1949 in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. He began his career in the late-1960s. His first band 'Tear Gas' morphed into the backing band for Alex Harvey, and when that band split in 1977, he and other members continued on as The Zal Band, before he joined Nazareth in 1979.
