"Born Late '58" is the name of a single taken from Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople were a British rock band with strong R&B roots, popular in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s. They are popularly known for the song "All the Young Dudes", written for them by David Bowie and appearing on their 1972 album of the same name.-The early years:Mott The Hoople...

's seventh and final studio album The Hoople

The Hoople

The Hoople is a 1974 album by British band Mott the Hoople. Its highest chart rating in the US was #28. A remastered and expanded version was released by Sony BMG on the Columbia Legacy label in Europe in 2006...

. It is the only Mott the Hoople track credited solely to and sung by group bassist

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

 Peter Watts

Peter Watts (musician)

Peter Overend Watts is a bass guitar player and founding member of 1970s rock band, Mott the Hoople....

 prior to the group reforming as simply "Mott". Just prior to the recording, de facto group leader Ian Hunter

Ian Hunter (singer)

Ian Hunter Patterson is an English singer-songwriter. He was the lead singer of the English rock band Mott the Hoople from its inception in 1969 to its dissolution in 1974, and he again fronted them at the time of their 2009 reunion. Hunter was a musician and songwriter before Mott The Hoople, and...

 left the recording studio in frustration with the group's new guitarist Ariel Bender

Luther Grosvenor

Luther James Grosvenor is an English rock musician, who played guitar in Spooky Tooth, briefly in Stealers Wheel and, under the pseudonym "Ariel Bender", in Mott the Hoople and Widowmaker....

. As a consequence, this is the only track in the seven albums credited to "Mott the Hoople" that Hunter had no direct involvement in. Ironically (perhaps intentionally), the track features Bender's guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

as the most prominent instrument.

The song tells the story of a romantic encounter with an underage girl (Born in 1958, therefore 16 years old).
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