Play Sweet Radio
Sweet
On Tour
1,739,806 plays (231,969 listeners)
Listening now: tysonhicks
Sweet (referred to as The Sweet on albums before 1974 and singles before 1975) were a popular 1970s british band.
Although Sweet were largely known for their glam rock image, and several hit singles — many of them being so-called teenage anthems — they also released several albums throughout a ten year career.
The extent of Sweet’s domination of the charts in Europe resulted in eight number one singles in Germany, with pop oriented tunes as “Co Co”, “Little Willy”, and “Wig Wam Bam”. Sweet’s success continued with more rock oriented tunes, such as “Blockbuster”, “Hellraiser”, “Ballroom Blitz”, “Teenage Rampage”, and “Fox On The Run”. The group had a world-wide following (clocking up no less than 18 top 20 hit singles) and were most notably popular in the UK, Germany and Australia.
The classic Sweet line-up consisted of vocalist Brian Connolly, drummer Mick Tucker, bassist Steve Priest, and guitarist Andy Scott. Sweet are perhaps best remembered for their glam stage clothing - glitter, platform boots, chain mail shirts, and makeup - practically defining the camp extreme of the glam rock look. Scott would later say it only happened because they needed an excuse to meet Top of the Pops dancers Pan’s People and reasoned that going to the make-up room was a good method of doing so.
In late 1978, Sweet stayed at The Town House studio, Shepherds Bush, London, to write new material for their next album. Just before Brian Connolly announced his departure, his vocals were erased from the recorded material for the ensuing album Cut Above The Rest. Two album tracks titled “That Girl” and “Stay With Me” featuring Connolly on lead vocals remain from the late 1978 Cut Above The Rest recording sessions.
Although Sweet were largely known for their glam rock image, and several hit singles — many of them being so-called teenage anthems — they also released several albums throughout a ten year career.
The extent of Sweet’s domination of the charts in Europe resulted in eight number one singles in Germany, with pop oriented tunes as “Co Co”, “Little Willy”, and “Wig Wam Bam”. Sweet’s success continued with more rock oriented tunes, such as “Blockbuster”, “Hellraiser”, “Ballroom Blitz”, “Teenage Rampage”, and “Fox On The Run”. The group had a world-wide following (clocking up no less than 18 top 20 hit singles) and were most notably popular in the UK, Germany and Australia.
The classic Sweet line-up consisted of vocalist Brian Connolly, drummer Mick Tucker, bassist Steve Priest, and guitarist Andy Scott. Sweet are perhaps best remembered for their glam stage clothing - glitter, platform boots, chain mail shirts, and makeup - practically defining the camp extreme of the glam rock look. Scott would later say it only happened because they needed an excuse to meet Top of the Pops dancers Pan’s People and reasoned that going to the make-up room was a good method of doing so.
In late 1978, Sweet stayed at The Town House studio, Shepherds Bush, London, to write new material for their next album. Just before Brian Connolly announced his departure, his vocals were erased from the recorded material for the ensuing album Cut Above The Rest. Two album tracks titled “That Girl” and “Stay With Me” featuring Connolly on lead vocals remain from the late 1978 Cut Above The Rest recording sessions.
Top Albums
-
The Best of Sweet
Sweet
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes $9.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon $0.96
- eBay Search
-
Desolation Boulevard
Sweet Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $7.99
- 7digital $7.77
- iTunes $7.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon $19.99
- eBay Search
-
Greatest Hits
Sweet Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
-
Biggest Hits
Sweet Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
Top Tracks
| 1 |
|
Ballroom Blitz
full track
|
|||
| 2 |
|
Fox On The Run
full track
|
|||
| 3 |
|
Little Willy
full track
|
|||
| 4 |
|
Blockbuster
full track
|
|||
| 5 | |||||
| 6 |
|
Love is Like Oxygen
full track
|
|||
| 7 |
|
Wig-Wam Bam
full track
|
|||
| 7 |
|
Action
full track
|
|||
| 9 | |||||
| 10 | |||||
| 11 | |||||
| 12 |
|
Co-Co
full track
|
|||
| 13 | |||||
| 14 |
|
The Six Teens
full track
|
|||
| 15 |
Shoutbox
-
Sulisk wrote:
Love is like Oxygen and Fox on the Run, mega
-
danilofloydiano wrote:
viadagem
-
bentesxD wrote:
The best band ever, in my opinion.
-
doctorjmo wrote:
they are!!
-
joepp wrote:
joep schmitz is een loser
-
coleman17 wrote:
<³³³
-
freddy_cosme wrote:
I really need to listen more songs of them... they are great
-
KurTTOLTE wrote:
ихххххххххххххххххха
-
FL0RECITA wrote:
Ace Frehley has done a very good cover of 'Fox on the Run' , made me want to listen to more Sweet.
-
lihei wrote:
Saw them live in Australia 1975. Great!!!!!
-
crownanchor wrote:
Amazing band:)
-
FjordSweetFjord wrote:
I was amazed by the songwriting skills and powerhouse drumming of Mick Tucker, wonderful wonderful records...especially Give Us A Wink!!!
-
Nololob wrote:
Klasyka Rocka
-
veyita_88 wrote:
This band songs are really really fun,set me free,Ballroom blitz and fox on the run are my favourites.
-
DookieMestrebug wrote:
Everybody wants a piece of the actiooooooon, everybody needs a main atractioooon!!!! [2]
-
UNHOLY_DIVER wrote:
Set Me Free <33
-
SGhul wrote:
they are funny.
-
seko0408888 wrote:
Fucking gr888 in Snina!!! :D
-
emma111191 wrote:
boli uplne, ze ale UPLNE UZASTNY piatok!!!!!!!!!!!! *IN LOVE*
-
electrostars wrote:
I saw Steve Priest's version last summer..sounding good..lol.
Videos
See more
Events
-
Mar
6
1. Suhler Oldienacht
CCS-Congress Centrum, Suhl, Germany
Add shout
| 2 attendees
-
Apr
17
Springtime Rock Festival Vol. II
Color Line Arena, Hamburg, Germany
1 shout
| 10 attendees
- May 6 Sweet The Rock Temple, Kerkrade, Netherlands
Listeners
-
andrechaos
Listening now
to Little Willy -
CobourgKevin
Listening now
to Rebel Rouser -
raul_agostino
Top Listener
-
arwen1989
Top Listener
-
ziemann
Top Listener
-
Crazy_Reality
Top Listener
Recent Activity
-
Vladimirsetkin6, bob_v_marle, go2rhoen2 and 12 other people added Sweet to their libraries. 1 hour ago
-
Echilion tagged Sweet with ‘glam rock’. Sunday evening
-
bobbytoman, leegreenaway, Hartzpuddel and 22 other people added Sweet to their libraries. Sunday evening
-
werder58 tagged Sweet with ‘glam rock’. Friday evening
-
werder58, henrikdarell, Jarawy and 10 other people added Sweet to their libraries. Friday evening
-
Crazy_Reality tagged Sweet with hard rock, rock, classic rock and one other tag. Thursday afternoon
-
milianalynx and vlad1286 added Sweet to their libraries. Thursday afternoon
-
mortimer7 tagged Sweet with hard rock, 70s, rock and 2 other tags. Thursday afternoon
-
mortimer7, Bluenose22, dirtypit and 12 other people added Sweet to their libraries. Thursday afternoon
-
Nonclique343 connected Sweet to the group ALL the ⓝⓘⓒⓔ-ies ROCK the WORLD. last week
Related Journals
-
Seen live
by Chidder |
21 Jan 2010 | Add comment
-
New Artist Voting for the British Rock Artists League!
by Gilaventi |
31 Dec 2009 | Add comment
-
This is my CD collection. Enjoy. Again.
by Death_OfSeasons |
30 Dec 2009 | 5 comments
Groups (58)
-
Status Quo
64 members
-
Extensive Musical Taste
29,621 members
-
British Music
11,184 members
-
Classic Rock
11,092 members
-
Rock
8,299 members
