The Sweet - the band. I was too young for them really, I 'discovered' charts music around 1977 I guess. I remember being blown away by Ballroom blitz though when I heard it. I never looked into the band though as I didn't like blokes in make-up (still don't!).
Anyway, I just had it in my head that they were maybe a slightly 'artificial' band, obviously without looking into them at all all these years, until now ....
For some reason today I was faffing around on Youtube looking at 70s music (as I'm having a bit of a 70s thing right now), and I thought I'd look up Sweet live. Well, blow me down, they were a kick ass band live! How's this for a ballsy song with attitude from 1974:
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They were the template for so many bands - falsetto backing vocals, silly costumes, catchy riffy hits.
"Alexander Graham Bell" must be one of the weirdest singles of all time.
It wasn't a Single but is fantastic and quite a "heavy" track. If this don't get you pumping, nowt will
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Burning is heavy as lead
It doesn’t sound like the same band at all.
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