With Mott the Hoople, guitarist/vocalist Ian Hunter established himself as one of the toughest and most inventive hard rock songwriters of the early '70s, setting the stage for punk rock with his clever, cutting songs. Mott the Hoople found fame once they received a David Bowie-assisted glam makeover for 1972's "All the Young Dudes." Hunter stuck with the band for two more years before he embarked on a solo career, eking out some success on American rock radio, but many of his best-known songs would be discovered years later: "Once Bitten, Twice Shy," a U.K. hit for Hunter in 1975, turned into an American smash when covered by Great White in 1989, while "Cleveland Rocks" became the theme song to the sitcom The Drew Carey Show in 1995. Hunter kept steadily working, writing and recording new albums and taking them out on tour into the 2020s.