1974: THE SWEET - A Day With the GLAM ROCKERS | Scene | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive
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- "They've always been deliberately outrageous. They set out to shock, it's part of their plan, part of their image."
Scene spends a day with Mick Tucker, Brian Connolly, Steve Priest and Andy Scott, better known as glam rock band The Sweet. The day begins with a trip to BBC Television Centre to record a performance of their hit single Block Buster!, with all the wardrobe, makeup and rehearsal that entails.
The band have become famous - and in some quarters, infamous - for their outrageous stage clothes, but they have also sold over 14 million records, and have a burgeoning fan club. What does it take to have a lasting career as a rock band? Is the music business really that glamorous? Why have they come in for such a hard time from the music press?
Sarah Ward narrates.
This clip is from Scene: All That Glitters. Originally broadcast 28 February, 1974.
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The 80's hair metal bands owe a great deal to Sweet.
True
I’ve thought that many times too. I wonder how many of the American bands of the 80s acknowledge this?
especially motley crue
Not altogether a good thing Lol!
Nikki sixx worshiped Sweet
So underrated!! They influenced many bands . Sweet and Slade should be recognized at the rock hall fame ! Such a joke that they are not part of it yet !
Why stress about who is in the hall of fame? Do they even matter ? They are not the authority on rock music....they are a bunch of self proclaimed " experts" who inducted the people they like...bruce springstein and his whole family and roadies and pizza delivery man were inducted. And yet bands that truly deserve it , nothing....hall of fame is a joke!
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Sweet & Slade were my favourite bands in 1973.
Definately 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍 both bands music still sounds fab today🔥
Wow yes they shaped Rock n Roll definitely.
But they did so much hands on work that they didn't do it the way most bands did so much more that actually they should have floated to the very very top for puting so much more of they're time money and emotional being that they should be with extreme higher ground honors than many other bands .
Sometimes life is fair but not fair enough and with regards to "SWEET" ALL We can say is thank you guys thanks for all the records we can go back and listen to and all the music videos your iconic Gang of focused musicians and fans are and always will be as one ...
One happy family 😊😊😊
Slade and Sweet are still my favourite bands. I want Slade played as I head for the oven.
'Burnin' In The Heat Of Love' should do.❤️🔥💀Regarding that Hall Of Fame rubbish, unless your names Lennon, McCartney, Page, Plant or you're a yank you have no chance.
It's almost exclusively an American club.
The sweet are a group you’d either love or hate?? Is she joking? I never knew anyone you hated the sweet . Absolutely brilliant
Hahah! Back in the day they said Sweet made the music that your parents would hate. Indeed I once met an old man who complained about all the sirens at their concert
I've known lots of people who hated them. Personally, I never hated Sweet... just their fans who, to this day, persist in over-rating them.
Jealous boyfriends hated them,Brian was beaten up real bad at the height of their fame +.Many zine & news paper reviewers dissed them everytime they released a new album or song.Mick Tucker would often wear a shirt designed to hit back at them saying ' Hit Wonder 13' or whatever number hit they were up to.
@@andrewbroughton65 and jalous boyfriends hated Bay City Rollers too … and Donny Osmond.
50 years ago I knew lots of folks who didn't like the Sweet. Most of those folks are gone now.
November 1973 Glasgow, my first ever concert and it was Sweet.
50 years ago ! Where has the time gone, jeez.
So lucky! Do you have any photos/recordings?
@@andyw.3048 Sorry mate, only have the memories.
Midge Ure's band (Salvation) were the support act that night.
Tucker was a tremendous drummer
Head and shoulders above anyone else in the genre👍
An amazingly talented player and Mick also had a great presence behind the drum kit that most other drummers seem to lack
Rebel rouser!
The best drummer of the 1970s in my opinion. Absolutely phenomenal
I hadn't appreciated that until watching this, but you're absolutely right.
They evolved brilliantly from pop tunes to pretty heavy rock...the girls loved them and the boys wanted to be them...underrated musicians...top band
Ball room blitz is a phenomenal record.
One of the best albums ever made in rock history is Sweet Fanny Adams. They went from the pop sweet image to the hard rock and showed they could write their own stuff independent of Chinn and Chapman. I can never get tired of that album.
Sad to think that Brian’s life turned out the way it did.
youre so damned right man
Truth
I bought this album today at a record fair, it’s a gem! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💃🏻
@@patriciabyrne7391 yep. Only magnificent tracks 😊
Unfortunately sweet never had recognition on their albums, they were a singles band
The 70s.....what a time to be alive.
The best time in my opinion..
It's nice to see them in their heyday and to hear their thoughts about their success after years of obscurity.
very underrated musicianship, THE SWEET are actually quite talented
Correct and I’m sorry to say I was one of the people who underrated them. I was into Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer. All the heavy Prog rockers. I considered glam rock to be too lightweight for my tastes and so bands like the Sweet went right under my radar. A pity, as there was actually some great musicianship there.
@@jimsimpson1006 Yes, me too. In the 70's all the girls in my school loved them, but I was more into the Beatles and the Stones. I thought they were more of a girl group with their flashy clothes and not to be taken seriously, like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin or Sabbath, but they were really good musicians and a good live band.
Totally agree, they were very talented musicians - no weak links, great band !
Chinnichap production.
Best harmonies. Eagles' harmony, CSN&Y very beautiful acoustic harmony. Sweet was electrifying.
The 70's was the best decade for music imo. Loved The Sweet. Still play their stuff to this day.
Most people only remember sweet for their bubblegum records, blockbuster, ballroom blitz etc, but they were actually a phenomenal heavy rock band whose musicianship and Brian's vocal range could rival and British rock band from that era. Chinn and Chapman wrote their chart hits until fox on the run but their b sides were mostly album tracks written by the band. A lot of bands since took inspiration from sweet and the fact that teenagers today are listening to them 50 years after their only number one is testament to their brilliance. I would guess that anyone watching this is already well aware of their legacy but if not I would urge you to have a listen to their albums.
Sam Brooks.
Their "bubblegum" songs were pre Blockbuster.
@@redblade8160 that's a matter of opinion, regardless i was making the point that they were a far better band than the teeny bopper tunes they churned out for chinn and Chapman.
@@sambrooks7862
You're not listening, you said "bubblegum" songs, and I said their "bubblegum" songs were pre Blockbuster:
1. Funny Funny
2. Coco.
3 Alexander Graham Bell
4. Poppa Joe
5. Little Willy
6. Wig-Wam Bam
@@redblade8160 mate, I've been a sweet fan since I was 7 years old, I'm 58 now. Even as a kid in preferred the b-sides, rock and roll disgrace= ballroom blitz, need a lot of lovin= blockbuster, burning=hellraiser. 50 years later my best mate since infant school and a fellow sweet fan and a professional musician for nearly 40 years actually plays some of their album tracks in one of the cover bands he's in and they always get a better reaction than the chart stuff most people know them for.
Sam Brooks
I know The Sweet's history, but you're still not grasping what I'm saying to you! Let me give this one more try with you. The Sweet's "bubblegum" era was from 1971-1972, but all that ended in 1973 when "Blockbuster" was released.
Повезло девушке,которая рассматривает письма видеть всю группу,наверное до сих пор их помнит
Я тоже об этом думала, ещё момент мне нравиться,когда Брайану и Стиву моют голову и красят им глаза .Все интересно ,что с ними происходит вне выступлений. Это ❤к моим кумирам.
Steve Priest, an utter oddity on ToTPs in the 1970s to a schoolkid like me! In the above video he's dressed like a comic Hitler, and I remember this appearance! He used to 'camp it up' for the cameras. A great performer. Rest in peace.
1974 war ich in der 9. Klasse, ein neuer kam in die Klasse und der hatte die damalihen Hits der Gruppe Sweet auf Tonbandkassette. Durch ihn kenne ich die Gruppe. Später bekam jemamd aus meinem Freundeskreis eine Sweet Schallplatte aus dem Westen. Oh! Wahnsinn, jetzt konnte ich ie Musik in Stereo hören. Hab es damals auch aufgezeichnet, war dann endlich bei den Oldie FM Nächten live bei Sweet im Konzert, ein irres Gefühl. Hören und genießen war angesagt, nix abrocken ich musste ganz bewusst zuhören, wie beim Sinfoniekonzert, alle mir bekannten Hardrock Songs haben sie gespielt, außer The Sixteens, der mich auch an meine Jugend erinnert. Aber ich hatte sie live im Konzert erlebt. Top!
Brian Connolly was a very underrated singer, but they were all excellent musicians who clearly worked hard to achieve their success.
I found this by accident, and oh what a trip down memory lane! I loved the Sweet and it broke my heart when Brian passed. That was horrific. So sad, but lovely to see them again in their prime!
🥰😍🤩😘 Sweet. No one could ever replace Brian.
But Steve did a great job 💞💞
Fantastic legendary group with songs that stood the test of time 👏
Incredible band once they started writing their own stuff and got heavy. R.I.P., Brian, Mick, and Steve.
5:43 I worked with their fan club secretary many years ago. A lovely lady and had stories to tell.
I was a teen in the 80s but LOVE this band and what a cute video of them in their youth
Their self penned 'Action' really showed that they could write a great powerful Rock song.
and covered a lot by others
It was a great time to be young, I would go back in a heartbeat.
Such an awesome band! So under-rated. Mick Tucker is in my top 5 favorite drummers. So good! Rest in peace guys. 🙏..To me it was ALWAYS cool to like Sweet!
Yep, took me a long time to realize he was a true badass drummer.
of course its true
The Sweet Fanny Fanny 1971 Лучшая песня всех времен и народов! Спасибо Свит Брайан Коннолли 1978
What a group of legends. I was born in 1993, but my uncle got me into their music and I just love them since my childhood.
RIP Brian, Mick and Steve
Your music is for the eternity
One of my favorite bands. Great vocals, tight fun songs, musicianship and a true Original. They should have been much more appreciated.
They should have been much more appreciated?!! For what, exactly... having most of their hits written by a songwriting duo? They were given more opportunity than most, but messed up.
@@barrymitchell6444 I had no idea. I should have checked the writing credits. Thanks. Regardless they were a fun band and had talent.
@@darkh2o716 They were an act to look forward to on Top Of The Pops. Ironically, my favourite Sweet songs... Love Is Like Oxygen, and Action... were self-written.
Hokey ka ka oh. Sheer bloody poetry?
I was at that show at The Rainbow, fifty years ago this coming Christmas, my second Sweet concert of 1973.
I saw them a few weeks earlier in Glasgow, I was coming up for 14yrs old.
I can still hear all the girls screaming, that was some noise !
Wow, lucky you! If I could go back in time and see any concert, that would be the one. Glad they still have the Hellraiser video from that show!
Love is like oxygen one off my top ten favourites 👌
The musicianship of these four individuals has always been tragically underrated.
My favourite band in the early 70s
What a Brilliant and So underrated band, I Love Sweet and always will.
Quality ♥️😋
One of the best live bands ever
Great band, the first group i was really into, Steve Priest had a very distinctive look.
In the days when parents would shout through " Call that music?" etc when Top Of The Pops was on.
Yes, my dad only came in to see pans people, or Suzi Quattro, the rest of the time, it was the moan about the music. Ironically enough I did exactly the same with my kids choice of music too.
@@pwareham61 It's the same with every generation: no-one likes the music their kids are listening to!
But the music of Sweet, Slade and T Rex etc has really stood the test of time brilliantly .
@@BadgerBotherer1 Not necessarily. My parents loved rock and my dad cranked up the stereo as much as I did! They took me to my first concert.🙂
Never will forget the glam rock era.. Thursday evening top of the pops..we actually got up and danced to the likes of sweet, slade, Mott the hoople, boland and bowie.. it was infectious and wonderful period in my life... 🥳😀
Steve was always a favorite to watch on stage. I agree with several of the comments, the musicianship of the group was fantastic.
There was much more to them.The bloody bullying press again as well.
Ahhh, I’m made up to see this 😊 I idolised Brian back in the day, still love him now, my favourite band when I was growing up. Sad that he’s no longer with us x
its fascinating and amazing .....
Brian was my childhood hero and I still love Sweet to this day; I am so glad and grateful that I grew up with their music and TV performances !
Same here loved sweet and thought Brian was so cool and I 7
I was very young back zen and then punk exploded into our lives they reminded me of the New York dolls looking back
The mighty sweet. Long live their music.
My favorite band of all time ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🤘
Mine too 🥰
👍👍👍
Mick's laugh at 2.56!!! Love it 😂. My absolute favorite band. And forever will be.
Agreed, love his laugh! Mick was the bomb- a fantastic drummer. 🥁🎤😍
Great time in the early 70s with glam rock groups. Loved Blockbuster.
me too friend Tony
What an awesome band. Love these clips where we get to see them laughing and cutting up together. Mick's so cute here- still makes my heart go pitter patter💓. RIP Mick, Brian, and Steve. You're still very much loved and missed. 💔😥
La primera ves que los escuche fue en un paseo a la posa larga de Limache en 1972 de hay los seguí hasta ahora.
Mick Tucker British power Drumming 🥁 one's of my top English drummers ❤
Brilliant band with great musicians!
Yeah. Just listen to Steve play that solo bass piece.
Sweet, That band made me a rocker. I'm 62 now and still a big fan...
Sweet are brilliant
The commentator asked how long the Sweet will last. It's now late May of 2023 and I still listen to the band. Though I find it disheartening because what happened to the lead singer. We live in a cruel world. Sweet made life worth living as a teenager in the 1970s.
Супер - группа! Sweet - это абсолютная гармония музыкального мастерства.
Some of us grew up listening to Sweet 🤘🔥🤘💥
The cool ones still do 🥰
Yeeep 🤘😍🎤🎸🎸🎸🥁
@@anjaschmied2799
🤘💥🤘🔥🤘😉😉😉
So I must be cool 😉
@@thomasgombert7095
Of course 👍😉🤘💥🤘
@@rosannag.8172 tanx a lot,we eternal Sweet fans are cool,we are carrying the spirit of the 70's in us,the coolest time ever in my opinion🤗🎸🥁🎸👱♀️👩🏼🦱👩🦰👩🏼🦱
Well…..some 50 years on, and I am still singing or humming one of their great songs….some testament….wonder how many folks in 50 years time will even recall one song from todays bands…..great band, like Slade who were both very very talented and hard grafters…..
1996 hatte ich Karten für das Magdeburg‘konzert . Leider wurde ein Musiker krank . Mit am Start waren noch Garry Glitter und noch eine vierte Band . Sehr sehr schade , dass dieses Konzert ausgefallen ist. Wir standen schon vor der Stadthalle ja und das wars
They were very accomplished musicians believe it or not..glam was a vehicle for them..love is like oxygen is probably their finest moment...sad about Brian, definitely went downhill after he was attacked..rip.
They have learned on their way. On the first record they didn't play instruments only vocals. But I loved them and still listen to them.😍
Absolutely a precursor to the NWBHM phenomenon.
No Sweet, no Def Leppard, no Saxon, no Iron Maiden.☹️☹️☹️☹️
Spot on.
Yes, Saxon even covered 'Set Me Free' and Def Leppard covered 'Action' both of which were self-written Sweet songs.
A legend of a band kings of. Glam rock
The Sweet Fanny Adams album is a diamond in my vinyl collection.
I saw Andy Scotts Sweet in 2019 and enjoyed the concert very much. Thought I was fifteen again. I was so in love with Brian Connolly when I was a teenager. Hope to see Andy Scotts Sweet again. 👍
Without The Sweet, there would have been no Queen. The Sweet invented this sound.
100%
Sweet bol najlepsi
My heroes ❤
hi there, loved them in the 70s on Top of the Pops, with blockbuster and all the others,sadly missed now
Loved the Sweet.
Жаль что не изобретена " машина времени " Хотел бы оказаться в 1974 сколько себя помню всегда восхищался этой супер - группой!
А кто в группе играл на клавишных? Я слышу клавишные.
@@kozerogmoskva112 Andy did.
The Sweet in their prime after they had hits and were still touring. Great program!
I still listen to the sweet all the time a lot of their songs are on my daily playlist
Great band.
This is bloody gold this is...Brilliant band.
Thank you, BBC, for reuploading this and giving The Sweet new momentum💫 There is a sequel to that documentary, we're looking forward for more Sweet content!
Great music great band there's only one left now Andy..........RIP Brian Steve and Mick 😢
Ok, this is the one. I've seen many claims to the thrown but THIS has got to be the short doc that inspired the original short Spinal Tap film. Yes, I love The Sweet, and this doc shows their talent, dedication, humor and just flat out intelligence. But I think Rob Reiner saw it and said "let's do that, but for laughs."
along with agroup of mates we saw the Sweet in the early seventies as they were gaining popularity. It was the Mayfare Suite in the Bullring Birmingham which closed years back, it is now TK Max. They rocked the place with their heavy rock tracks which did surprised a lot of the crowd, it was a fantastic night. RIP all.
They were amazing 😊
A great band my first single in 1973 Hell raiser still love it
They were a great band..awesome songs, damn good musicians 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Great Band
Love the band, but still can’t get Spinal Tap out of my head when I watch this documentary. 😂
Great band. 💥💯
Great documentary, it's a time when the BBC knew how to make great programmes unlike now. Great band and awesome stage presence. They did go on a downer after Brian's attack. Think he was in a council flat in Camden for a while.
Brian had serious health issues down to excessive alcohol and smoking, he sadly passed away aged only 51. I remember see him in Denham many moons ago, a genuinely nice guy.
I was lucky enough to have met Brian back in the seventies in a London pub. He was was one of the most interesting, humble and polite bloke's I've ever met . No big ego like so many popstars. Totally down to earth
@@laurencelevene4333 ❤❤.. skvělý Brian 🔥
The Sweet were a great band they managed themselves and they spent their own money and write their own songs also I. had all their albums they had some of their songs written by Nick Chapman and Chinn the Sweet for ever a fan always.❤😊
My father has a record with the sweet on one side and the pipkins on the other. The sweet are phenomenal, but gimmie dat ding is a hard act to follow
I had that record as well. The Sweet’s side was from before they were famous. Gimme Dat Ding is a classic.
I had this record too. A Music For Pleasure 7in from EMI, I think. Great stuff.
Really enjoyed this, The Sweet were brilliant, and along with Slade were my favourite glam bands. The had some cracking songs too, 1 number one, and a lot of songs stalled at number two. Some great albums too.
My two favourites also
Here in Germany they had 8 ( in words eight... ) number ones...they had their biggest following here in Germany !
@@drummerman1964 Wasn't 'Defender' also a sizeable hit quite recently in the German charts ?
@@TheHumbuckerboy THE SWEET for me are Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker...and it ended for me when Brian left...
@@drummerman1964 Brian was also my favourite .
Steve is hilarious!
Thankyou BBC for sharing what I would have loved to see when I was that kid 11-13 buying their every single and LP. Today it was a feel good moment to look back and see behind the stage ❤
Love them they were my heroes i remember standing in front of the tele with my out of tune woolworth guitar and my mums silver platform boots pretending i was in the band still play there songs in my van but dont wear the boots anymore
I had the Woolworths semi-acoustic guitar to mate. I think it was a Columbus /my first amp came from Boots the chemists I kid you, not they used to sell them upstairs Tony.
@@tonyn9858
Boots used to sell all sorts- books, records, etc. In more recent years, it had been whittled down to photo developing (now gone of course), medicines and cosmetics. Now it all belongs to some shareholder or hedgefunder value generating, tax efficiency maximising machine in Malaysia or somewhere- and has lost any conception of what it once was.
Great musicians and songwriters. This must have been around the time they released "Sweet Funny Adams". I grew up with that album, it is the very image of glam rock for me.
My best mate at school was the son of Frank. E.Torpey.
We used to play in the recording studio, but I never knew his Dad was famous even back in the 80-90's.
Favorite song,live, is “No you don’t”, powerful beat and at the same time it’s got it’s fun time, with Mick losing his drumsticks and getting Andy to chuckle it out. 🇨🇦👍😄
Yep, Mick never took himself too seriously. Like on the live at Musikladen videos where he was playing tubular bells and hit a sour note. He just smiled like the Cheshire Cat and kept on playing.😂
I often saw Mick down the Garden Gate and Feathers Pub in Rickmansworth. Great band, talented and hard working.
Bands used to get ripped off left right and centre by unscrupulous managers and record companies in those days. Remember reading how despite being on totp more than any other band in 1974 mud were only on 50 quid a week and the members of queen were living in dingy basement flats when they recorded bohemian rhapsody. I bet these guys were only getting a fraction of the millions Sweet's records were generating in the early 70s
Bands still get ripped off
Yep, I went to school with Frank.e Torpey's son, they weren't rich. I didn't even know his Dad was famous until I was an adult and he told us down the pub.
@@roasty80 Not, really. Most bands these days release their music independently on internet platforms and musicians unions help them to not get taken advantage of. They also make most of their money from touring as opposed to record sales. It's night and day compared to back then.
@@whynotagain3639 yes, very few people are aware that andy scott wasn't an original member of sweet, he replaced Frank.
@@GhastlyCretin ten years ago I worked for the DWP and one of my clients was a bloke in his early 30s, he was destitute and had been unemployed for more than a decade. He was a former member of a boy band in the mid 90s. They had several huge hits including number ones and sold hundreds of thousands of records over a fairly short period, about 3 years I think. He told me that after hundreds of gigs all around the world and several top 10 albums and singles his total earnings from the entire time in the spot light was less than 50 grand before tax.
Are you ready Steve?! Mick!? Andy!? Let's GOOOO
Great bit of film I enjoyed that thanks
Excellent documentary.......fantastic talented band for sure.....
I was 16 years old, Aussie girl. I never saw BBC video like this. But saw them on Australian Countdown.
These..Slade and T.rex where my gateway into the road of heavy rock...I kid you not..and I'm pretty sure queen owe them a nod to the vocal harmonies.
I think it was the same for many of us.
Queen fans won’t admit to that.
Same for me! I never thought I would like heavy metal and become so obsessed with hard rock until I heard ‘No You Don’t’ and ‘Set Me Free.’ It was nice to take a trip back to the music I was listening to just a year ago. I still enjoy hearing any T Rex, Slade, or Sweet songs mixed in with the Thin Lizzy, Iron Butterfly, and Megadeth songs I play most often. I may just have to go back and listen to more Glam Rock this summer!
Myself and my school mates used to act out sweet when we were in the school yard. I can remember running home from school so I could see them on crackerjack on a Friday night. It's a shame that Brian died before his time and Steve has died recently. Great group in that era and I loved there music.
I met Brian in Los Angeles he was very nice
Sweet, T-Rex, & Slade were the massive groups of Glam Rock of the 70s. I was part of this in my teens growing up with it, and i'm so happy i was there. Thank you. 🎸🎸🎵🎵🎤🎤
Cool! Tolle Jungs und klasse Musiker!👍💥👏