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Post by Jeff Leach on Apr 17, 2023 16:27:44 GMT
Great footage of The Sweet on the road and some behind the scenes clip of Top of the Pops circa 1973 recently
uploaded on the BBC archive channel.
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Post by paul carney on Apr 17, 2023 17:16:57 GMT
An interesting piece. They were good musicians & singers and wanted to break free of their glam rock image around this time. I think they wrote most of the tracks on their LPs.
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Post by williammcgregor on Apr 17, 2023 17:50:16 GMT
Brilliant band. I think they were rockers at heart.
May I recommend a superb 241 page hardback book about them called (The Sweet) "There's no band like us" An illustrated biography 1971 to 1978 by Brad Jones by Spangle Publishing.
It is not cheap at £42 but it is sublime. The amount of information within is incredible.
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Post by mattg on Apr 17, 2023 18:00:17 GMT
Interesting to hear that the band’s critics apparently dismissed them for being primarily motivated by money. Assuming that perception was accurate then one wonders what their sniffy accusers believed motivated The Sweet’s contemporaries into releasing records… world peace, racial harmony and justice for all?  |
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Post by paul carney on Apr 17, 2023 18:00:22 GMT
So Brian Connolly and Mark McManus (Taggart) were not related?🤔🤔
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Post by paul carney on Apr 18, 2023 16:16:19 GMT
Wiki says Sweet sold 35m albums.Respect😀
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Post by tom rogers on Apr 24, 2023 15:15:00 GMT
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Post by Mick A on Sept 23, 2023 18:57:25 GMT
Sweet were fantastic and extremely underrated. Not always doing themselves favours with their attitude which clearly went against them. They managed to shrug off the bubblegum/glam image but it was short lived. I believe that if they'd managed a good follow up album to Level Headed with Brian in '79 then they'd have been world beaters. I remember Noddy Holder in an interview in '96 saying to Andy Scott that in '78 he thought they were going to become a stadium band. It wasn't to be unfortunately
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