With Status Quo in Holland
Sweet are off to the Netherlands for Strijen Rocks on the 14th June with Status Quo
With Status Quo in Holland
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The site is being revamped
As you can see, this site has been slightly changed. The old one was build on a platform that couldn’t be updated any longer, so I took the decision to close it down and build a new one. The new one will
The site is being revamped
The best songwriters in the world
“We are absolutely obsessed with being the best songwriters in the world” – interviewed in 1974 by Nigel Thomas Nowadays there’s a small group of people who seem to have been handed a season ticket for that Golden Three enclosure. The Sweet.
The best songwriters in the world
Waters Edge
I discovered this record completely by accident. One summer’s day, bored and waiting for a girlfriend to finish her holiday job, I dropped into Virgin Records. This, for those who haven’t heard of it is a huge record shop in central London.
Waters Edge
Sweet Fanny Adams
It is the first true album of the SWEET that was released in early spring of 1974. It has particular importance, since at last the band that languished in the producers’ cramp and were condemned to make single hits that were forced
Sweet Fanny Adams
Strung Up
This is a double album, whose first album includes recordings from the SWEET’s live gig in the Rainbow Theatre, London, 1973. It has thus pricinpal importance, because it was the first possibility to get acquainted with feeling of SWEET’s live gigs for
Strung Up
Off The Record
Released in 1976, this is probably my favourite Sweet album. It was released in 1976 and was the follow up to ‘Give us a wink’ The review is divided into my usual three parts, my initial reaction, what I think of it
Off The Record
Level Headed
This is without doubt the most distinctive album Sweet ever produced. It is both very varied in itself and very different from almost anything that they had released before. In a lot of ways it was Sweet taking a risk. Not surprisingly,
Level Headed
Desolation Boulevard
This album that was released in early autumn of 1974 is one of the best albums ever made in rock music. As also its title shows – that is supposed to invoke Bob Dylan’s song, Desolation Row – its main topic is the disappointment,
Desolation Boulevard
Cut Above The Rest
So there were 20 months between the albums Level Headed and Cut Above The Rest, punctuated by two failed singles both released well over a year after ‘Oxygen’. This means that the first point to make is that any momentum generated by
Cut Above The Rest
