Alan Williams is locked in a bitter High Court battle with guitarists Mick Clarke and Steve Etherington and singing drummer John Richardson over who has the right to use the band’s name.

claims his former band mates went behind his back to launch a breakaway band called the Rubettes after they split in 2018. He claims that he and his company, Alan Williams Entertainments Ltd ...

The Rubettes shot to fame in 1974 after the release of their debut single which sold 10 million copies. They continued to perform for decades afterwards, but last month they clashed at London's ...

Glam rockers The Rubettes are been torn apart by a bitter court feud over their iconic 1970s name. Frontman Alan Williams, 74, is accusing his former band mates of going behind his back to launch ...

The band members, whose first single "Sugar Baby Love" sold eight million copies, agreed in court in 2002 that one group would be called the Rubettes featuring Alan Williams, the lead singer ...

Two versions of British glam band The Rubettes have gone to court over claims that one is being falsely promoted. A court ruling in 1999 saw the band, whose 1974 single Sugar Baby Love made number one ...

He complained that since late 2018, the involvement of Mr Clarke, Mr Richardson and Mr Etherington in a band using, or being promoted under, the name 'the Rubettes' amounted to 'passing off'.

The Rubettes are the latest in a long line of bands to end up slugging it out in the courts. A similar fate befell their contemporaries the Bay City Rollers, the Glitter Band and Paper Lace.

including the real reason the ‘caps' were adopted and what ‘Showaddywaddy' and another famous American band had to do with the Rubettes' success, make it the 70s show of 2016 that you won't ...

All but the keyboard player Mark Haley, ex-musician of the Kinks and Monkees, are founding members of The Rubettes, and even Mark has been playing with the band since the turn of the century and ...

As the original voice of The Rubettes visits Norwich for a night of musical nostalgia, Paul Da Vinci tells how he lent his strikingly-high falsetto to their catchy hit even though he wasn't in the ...