This is so spoof-esque they *must* be doing it deliberately… surely?
And on voiceover, Alan Partridge…
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This is so spoof-esque they *must* be doing it deliberately… surely?
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I loved Sweet back in the day but that is sad and inspiring in different ways!
Makes me want to go back and listed to the hits again if nothing else.
Bet Lynch has let herself go a bit…
Compared to Bowie and Bolan I always thought Sweet’s glam credentials were very shaky. People got upset when I said they looked like “bricklayers in make-up” for some reason.
That is astounding.
Andy, speaking of the newly unearthed live footage on the box set: “When I first heard about it, I thought ‘That’s ‘orrible. they can’t release that!'”.
I was also suprised to find that Krugerrands was a top 10 hit in Australia, seeing as neither myself nor anybody else down here has ever heard of it.
And it is nice to see that Pear Tree productions still has a media presence.
Krugerrands. Wasn’t that a solo single credited to Andy Scott’s Sweet (or just Andy Scott)?
Meanwhile Peppermint Twist by the original Sweet was a 1974 number one in Australia , but didn’t chart anywhere else.
“They’ve taken every continent by storm for over 40 years” he says.
Including Antarctica? Africa? Asia? South America? 40 years?
In reality they were big in the usual record-buying countries of the western world for a few years during the glam boom. Since then it’s been the nostalgia/revival circuit for those guys.
johnny, i think he meant “incontinent”. sweet always had a strong bedwetter demographic.
Note also the newly minted adjective “ultimative” to describe the collection.
Any ideas for the dictionary definition of “Sweetified”?
Just in case you thought Andy was the only Sweet member past his best, here’s a recent pic of bassist Steve Priest.
Relax ladies, etc
http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt351/mojoworking01/l1_zpsx8emfa5n.jpg
Looks like he and Andy took their bandname to heart and raided the confentioners once too often…
Sweet released some great singles, but there’s something about brickies camping it up that makes me want to stick a fork in my eye.
This ‘brickie’ thing isn’t entirely accurate – Brian was a beautiful man during the glory years, certainly not ‘macho’ even when he was trying to be.
I found this a while ago. One of their 1971 pre-RCA singles. Ka-ching!
http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt351/mojoworking01/SweetAllYoullEverGet1_zpsy6077aix.jpg
Isn’t that one of the characters that Paul Whitehouse has created for those insurance adverts he does?
I am convinced that David St Hubbins was based on Brian
Christ that’s funny!
Fun fact: they were banned for life from Stockholm amusement park Gröna Lund (where all the legends and quite a few one-hit-wonders too have performed over the years) after they gave a member of the staff a fresh turd, gift-wrapped in a box.
Rawk’n’rawl!
To paraphrase Boy George, it seems that pop stars end up looking like dinner ladies or binmen eventually.
Or halfway between the two, in Sweet’s case (binner ladies?)
I wonder if I can borrow Andy’s hair when he’s not using it. It will be ideal for scaring the kids on Halloween.
I think the voiceover was Barry Scott (Cillit Bang).
‘Love is like Oxygen was nominated for Song of the Year at the Ivor Novello awards in 1978, although beaten by “Baker Street” by Gerry Rafferty’.
(Haven’t heard much from him lately)