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On this day, June 30, 1949, Andy Scott of Sweet was born.
Hat tip, This Day in Music
1949 - Andy Scott
Andy Scott, guitarist with English group Sweet, who had the 1973 UK No.1 single 'Blockbuster', plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles. Sweet scored four top-ten hits in the US: 'Little Willy', 'Ballroom Blitz', 'Fox On The Run', and 'Love Is Like Oxygen'.
Andy Scott, guitarist with English group Sweet, who had the 1973 UK No.1 single 'Blockbuster', plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles. Sweet scored four top-ten hits in the US: 'Little Willy', 'Ballroom Blitz', 'Fox On The Run', and 'Love Is Like Oxygen'.
Wed Jul 17, 2019: Born on this day in 1947: Mick Tucker, drummer for Sweet.
Hat tip, This Day in Rock. They got the year wrong. That happens.
1949 – MICK TUCKER, WHO ONLY COULD HAVE PLAYED DRUMS FOR SWEET…
Posted on 10:57 PM by STU SWEATMAN
Mick Tucker
1949 – Mick Tucker, who only could have played drums for Sweet with a name like that, is born in Harlesden, England.
Posted on 10:57 PM by STU SWEATMAN
Mick Tucker
1949 – Mick Tucker, who only could have played drums for Sweet with a name like that, is born in Harlesden, England.
From 2017, with an edit or two:
Because you can never have enough glam, happy 72nd birthday to Brian Connolly of Sweet.
The Sweet
The Sweet
The Sweet in the mid-1970s. Clockwise from top left: Steve Priest, Brian Connolly, Mick Tucker, Andy Scott.
The Sweet (also known as Sweet) are a British glam rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s. Their best known line-up consisted of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker. The group was originally called Sweetshop.
The band was formed in London in 1968 and achieved their first hit, "Funny Funny", in 1971 after teaming up with songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman and record producer Phil Wainman. During 1971 and 1972, their musical style followed a marked progression from the Archies-like bubblegum style of "Funny Funny" to a Who-influenced hard rock style supplemented by a striking use of high-pitched backing vocals.
The band first achieved success in the UK charts, with thirteen Top 20 hits during the 1970s alone, with "Block Buster!" (1973) topping the chart, followed by three consecutive number two hits in "Hell Raiser" (1973), "The Ballroom Blitz" (1973) and "Teenage Rampage" (1974). The band turned to a more hard rock style with their mid-career singles, like 1974's "Turn It Down". "Fox on the Run" (1975) also reached number two on the UK charts. These results were topped in West Germany and other countries on the European mainland. They also achieved success and popularity in the US with the top ten hits "Little Willy", "The Ballroom Blitz", "Fox on the Run" and "Love is Like Oxygen".
Sweet had their last international success in 1978 with "Love Is Like Oxygen". Connolly left the group in 1979 to start a solo career and the remaining members continued as a trio until disbanding in 1981. From the mid-1980s, Scott, Connolly and Priest each played with their own versions of Sweet at different times. Connolly died in 1997 and Tucker in 2002. The two surviving members are still active in their respective versions of the band; Scott's is based in the UK and Priest's in the US.
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The Sweet
The Sweet in the mid-1970s. Clockwise from top left: Steve Priest, Brian Connolly, Mick Tucker, Andy Scott.
The Sweet (also known as Sweet) are a British glam rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s. Their best known line-up consisted of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker. The group was originally called Sweetshop.
The band was formed in London in 1968 and achieved their first hit, "Funny Funny", in 1971 after teaming up with songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman and record producer Phil Wainman. During 1971 and 1972, their musical style followed a marked progression from the Archies-like bubblegum style of "Funny Funny" to a Who-influenced hard rock style supplemented by a striking use of high-pitched backing vocals.
The band first achieved success in the UK charts, with thirteen Top 20 hits during the 1970s alone, with "Block Buster!" (1973) topping the chart, followed by three consecutive number two hits in "Hell Raiser" (1973), "The Ballroom Blitz" (1973) and "Teenage Rampage" (1974). The band turned to a more hard rock style with their mid-career singles, like 1974's "Turn It Down". "Fox on the Run" (1975) also reached number two on the UK charts. These results were topped in West Germany and other countries on the European mainland. They also achieved success and popularity in the US with the top ten hits "Little Willy", "The Ballroom Blitz", "Fox on the Run" and "Love is Like Oxygen".
Sweet had their last international success in 1978 with "Love Is Like Oxygen". Connolly left the group in 1979 to start a solo career and the remaining members continued as a trio until disbanding in 1981. From the mid-1980s, Scott, Connolly and Priest each played with their own versions of Sweet at different times. Connolly died in 1997 and Tucker in 2002. The two surviving members are still active in their respective versions of the band; Scott's is based in the UK and Priest's in the US.
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Brian Francis Connolly (5 October 1945 – 9 February 1997) was a Scottish musician and actor, best known as the lead singer of the British glam rock band The Sweet.
Early life
Brian Connolly was born in 1945 in Govanhill, Glasgow. The identity of his father was never made public. His mother was a teenage waitress, Frances Connolly, who left him in a Glasgow hospital as an infant whilst he was possibly suffering from meningitis. He was fostered, aged two, by Jim and Helen McManus of Blantyre and took their family name.
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Early life
Brian Connolly was born in 1945 in Govanhill, Glasgow. The identity of his father was never made public. His mother was a teenage waitress, Frances Connolly, who left him in a Glasgow hospital as an infant whilst he was possibly suffering from meningitis. He was fostered, aged two, by Jim and Helen McManus of Blantyre and took their family name.
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Brian is the one with the silver lamé outfit and the long blond fluffy hair in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdIpXow75WsgKZPfBcGqfVw
Here are their two best-known tunes. Fox on the Run:
Get a load of how great his teeth are. Ballroom Blitz:
This version gave the fire marshal something to think about:
Once again, glam rules.
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