“This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.”

“There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.”