This Promising Rock Band Was DECIMATED After Their SINGER Was ATTACKED By THUGS | Professor of Rock
If there was ever a cautionary tale about a rock group making a deal with the devil to hit the big time, it would be the story of the rise and fall of SWEET. A saga of talent, fame & excess, followed by violence, frustration, alcoholism, disaster, poverty, and death. Along this bumpy journey, there are a lot of GREAT songs that will make you stand up and cheer. I want to warn you….it’s gonna be electric and frantically hectic.. the story of their biggest american hit Ballroom Bltiz from the 70s is .NEXT…on Professor of Rock.
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“The Ballroom Blitz” by Sweet….a song one misguided British music critic called “unabashed rubbish” was a massive smash with listeners around the world in ’73, and became an enduring glam rock anthem. Before we get into the creation of the ’s go back to ’67, when singer Brian Connolly & drummer Mick Tucker formed a band called SweetShop, with bassist Steve Priest & guitarist Frank Torpey. The lads gigged wherever they could around the London scene in the late 60s, quickly losing Torpey, and replacing him with Mick songwriters Mike Chapman & Nicky Chinn discovered Sweathshop, and followed the formula that vaulted The Monkees into pop stardom, by turning the band into a fabricated act that lip-synched to songs that were actually performed by studio musicians.
Despite their disdain for being miming puppets, the foursome begrudgingly went along with Chapman & Chinn’s plan, until their first 4 singles were dismal flops, and a reinvention was in order. The band changed their name to The Sweet, and convinced their manager that they should be known as a real band- playing their own instruments, and establishing an identity. The classic core lineup of The Sweet was set with: Brian Connelly doing lead vocals Steve Priest on bass Mick Tucker on drums
And…. Andy Scott on lead guitar Scott was the last player to be added to the core unit, after the departure of Mick Stewart.
Prior to joining The Sweet, Scott played with Paul McCartney’s younger brother, Mike in a band named The Scaffold.
Not only was Scott the final piece to the lineup, he is also the last surviving member of The Sweet. All four of the guys had ’day jobs’ before they had their breakthrough hit: Connelly was a carpet salesman. Scott worked at a bank. Tucker & Priest were automotive mechanics.
The guys quit their day jobs when the band’s 5th single “Funny Funny” rose to #13 on the UK Singles Chart in ’71: Their next single, the Caribbean flavored “Co-Co” was even bigger- climbing all the way to #2:Then came “Alexander Graham Bell” that went to #33, and another tropical island ditty “Poppa Joe” that reached #11 in the UK- in ’72: The song that broke The Sweet in America was their ninth single- the irresistibly catchy “Little Willy” that was ultimately the group’s highest charting single in the U.S at #3:
A year later in the fall of ’73, The Sweet, who by then had shortened their name to just ’Sweet,’ hit pay dirt in the states AGAIN, with their future pop culture classic “The Ballroom Blitz.”
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