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- The Ballroom Blitz, 1973. Mike Chapman was inspired to write The Ballroom Blitz after seeing Connolly and Scott dragged offstage at the Glasgow Apollo by scissor-wielding female fans in 1973 during the height of the group’s transition from pop star cuties to bugglegum rockers.
- Set Me Free, 1974. Later covered by Saxon, Vince Neil and thrash metallers Heathen, Andy Scott’s masterpiece got Sweet Fanny Adams, an album that the band had seriously wanted to call Sweet Fuck All, off to a blitzkrieg, take-no-prisoners start.
- Burn On The Flame, 1974. The undisputed greatest self-penned B-side in the entire Sweet catalogue, Burn On The Flame was every bit as good as its reverse, The Six Teens.
- Action, 1975. It’s a self-contained nugget of pop-rock superiority that you seek? Then look no further than Action, a song that Def Leppard realised they couldn’t improve, and simply covered.
Jul 27, 2024 · Sweet issued, in Europe, a smart, serious early-days heavy metal album in April of 1974 called Sweet Fanny Adams. In November of that year, they followed up with the slightly more obscure and oddball Desolation Boulevard. The North American version of Desolation Boulevard, with the same cover art, fortunately, was mostly Sweet Fanny Adams.
- No You Don’T
- Funny Funny
- Wig WAM Bam
- The Lies in Your Eyes
- Action
- Mother Earth
- Blockbuster
- Ballroom Blitz
- Little Willy
- Fox on The Run
Yeah, we know it’s supposed to be a To 10 Sweet Songs list. Sorry, our list goes to 11. We felt it was essential to start out with one of our favorite Sweet songs that casual fans may have never heard. Sweet’s “No You Don’t” was one of those great album tracks that was never released as a single. Placed in the shadows of two substantial hit singles...
The single “Funny Funny” was Sweet’s first worldwide hit. The song was released on their first album entitled Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be. The LP arrived in record stores in November of 1971. Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman’s songwriting team wrote the song. Chin and Chapman were two of the most successful songwriting teams to emerge from the 1970s. ...
The great Sweet song “Wig Wam Bam,” was the follow-up to their smash hit “Little Willy.” Both songs were released as singles in 1972. At the time the band was known as The Sweet. Two years later, they would drop “The” from the name and just go by the group name Sweet. The song “Wig Wam Bam” would continue to define the bubble gum sound that the ban...
The great Sweet single “The Lies in Your Eyes” was released on Sweet’s 1976 album Give Us A Wink. That album was the follow-up to Sweet’s mega selling Desolation Boulevard LP. While Give Us A Wink did not succeed like Desolation Boulevard, the LP contained some of the heaviest music of the band’s career. After years of recording songs written by Ni...
It’s hard to watch this video and not think of the movie Spinal Tap. If you are familiar with the film, you will know exactly what I mean when watching the video. “Action” was the first single from the Give Us A Wink LP. The song was actually released by itself in 1975 a year before the Give Us A WinkLP was released. It’s one of those tough-in-your...
If you were a big fan of the hit singles Sweet released in the early to late 1970s, chances are you would never believe this was the same band that released the song “Mother Earth.” And well, frankly, it wasn’t. The band went through many personal changes over the years, and you can hear the dramatic differences in the song ” Mother Earth.” Gone is...
The song Blockbuster was one of the band’s most successful single releases in the U.K. The song was released as a single in 1973. It hit the Number one position in Austria, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. It was eventually released on the first American Sweet album entitled The Sweet. That album was a compila...
The opening track on Sweet’s Desolation Boulevardalbum is one of the most popular songs of the band’s career. The excellent drum opening and campy band introductions were purely symbolic of 1970’s bubble gum pop rock culture. The lead vocal seems to borrow some of the insanity of Napoleon XIV’s “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa.!” The song “...
When I was eleven years old, I heard Little Willy on the radio in 1972 when it had just been released. It instantly became my favorite song. It was just one of those amazingly catchy pop songs you could not get out of your head; It was played constantly on AM radio. It’s hard to believe that the same band released songs like Fox on the Run and Acti...
One of the most memorable Sweet Songs of all time has to be their 1975 hit “Fox on the Run.” The song was originally released on the European version of the album Desolation Boulevard and the 1975 United States release of the same record. The song featured some great dynamic keyboard work wrapped around the anthemic lead and background vocals on th...
- Ballroom Blitz (Desolation Boulevard, 1973) “‘Ballroom Blitz’ is well known, and honestly is a great hard rocker. It was the track that drew me to Sweet in the first place when I was 12.
- Fox on the Run (Desolation Boulevard, 1974) “Fox on the Run is the exact reason I love the Sweet. For much of their career they blended the melodious pop elements of bands like the Hollies with the hard edge of Black Sabbath.
- Love is Like Oxygen (Level Headed, 1978) “A great song written by Andy Scott and a magnificent lead vocal from a departing Brian Connolly. This was to be Sweets final chart hit.
- Little Willy (Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be, 1971) “”Little Willy” is one of Sweet’s biggest sticks of bubble gummy goodness, but the flip unleashes the metal beast struggling to break out of that candy coated shell.
The single "Fox On The Run" became one of their most famous songs and topped the charts in Germany, Australia, South Africa and Denmark and reached Top 3 across Europe, as well as #5 in the USA...
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Oct 10, 2020 · The Sweet (also known as Sweet) is a British glam rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s. Their best-known lineup consisted of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker.
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The Sweet, or Sweet as they were known after 1974, was a British glam rock band. Their best known line-up consisted of lead singer Brian Connolly, bassist Steve Priest, guitarist.
