Ian Hunter

What draws me to Ian Hunter is the way he turned grit into glamour. As the voice of Mott the Hoople he rode the glam-rock wave, but he never lost the working-class warmth underneath the eyeliner and shades. I admire performers who keep going on their own terms, and Hunter did exactly that, writing and singing long before the band and long after it dissolved. There is something deeply honest about an artist who treats his whole life as raw material for songs. To me he is a craftsman first and a star second, and that is the rarer thing.

Name (English)

Ian Hunter

Name (Japanese)

イアン・ハンター

Reading

いあん・はんたー

Born

June 3, 1939 (age 87)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rabbit

Origin

Oswestry, United Kingdom

Occupation

singer / composer / guitarist / songwriter / singer-songwriter

• Official sitehttps://www.ianhunter.com
• Xhttps://x.com/IanHunterdotcom
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Hunter%20(singer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%20(%E6%AD%8C%E6%89%8B)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712678

Tags

• singer
• composer
• guitarist

Last updated

2026-06-19

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.