A Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman concoction.
Starting out with good intentions as a soul outfit - Wainright's Gentlemen, in 1965, featuring one Ian Gillan - Connolly, Priest and Tucker soon stopped off at the Sweetshop and filled up on plenty of bubblegum. Glam without the glamour; just a heap of alcohol abuse and rampant cynicism.
Brian Connolly: vocals; Steve Priest: bass, vocals; Andy Scott: guitars, vocals, keyboards; Mike Tucker: drums, vocals.
▼ THE SWEET: LITTLE WILLY from "Little Willy b/w Man From Mecca" 45 (Bell) 1972 (UK)
PURCHASE THE SWEET: GREATEST HITS REMASTERED
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Without the glamour? that's harsh, but agreed on the rest.
Poppa Joe was odd, wasn't it? but Six-Teens is a cracker.
Could there be any band less glamourous - in the truest sense - than The Sweet ? With the exception of Paper Lace.
I love(d) "Alexander Graham Bell", and even went out of my way to buy "Blockbuster!" "Poppa Joe" is something of an anomaly, yes.
Or Mud ?
Mud were neat... I recall one of them had an actual tiger´s tail tied to his costume. Glory days.
Well. I bought an album at the time. Still. They were far from glamorous. Even Les Gray with the shades, and the guitarist playing guitar with his teeth...
"I really love your tiger light..."
Dying penniless in Slough, as Connolly did, at a terribly young age, is about as unglamourous as you can get.
I do wish I had seen Sweet. Would have considered that to be a notch in my rock 'n' roll pistol. I bet just about everybody from the old Dope City punk rock crowd had a soft spot for those dudes. Not as soft a spot as they had for Black Sabbath maybe but a soft spot nevertheless.
Punks for sure. There was some (unfounded, it later transpired) speculation at the time of Connolly's death that he and Mark McManus - the whisky nosed Glaswegian tv detective - were in fact siblings. A sad reflection of how unkind the years had been to the former tennybop pin-up.
find me a better sounding record than desolation boulevard...
Nice record for sure, anon. And "Fox On The Run" was a band composition, to boot.
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