Year : 2012 (Metalville Records Revisited Remastered 2025)
Style : Glam Rock , Pop Rock
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 112 mb
Bio:
Sweet (also referred to as The Sweet) were a British rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s as a prominent glam rock act, with their most prolific line-up: lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker.Sweet were formed 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 achieved notable 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 more Hard Rock style with their mid-career singles like 1974's "Turn It Down". Their first self-written and produced single, "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, where the band was very popular.The Sweet had their last Top 10 hit 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 threesome 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 United Kingdom and Priest's in the United States.
Album:
“Sweet Fanny Adams Revisited” is a fiery live re-imagining of The SWEET seminal 1974 album Sweet Fanny Adams, recorded live in 2012 by Andy Scott’s line-up.The album had become pretty rare since its release and had been out of print for some time.Now “Sweet Fanny Adams Revisited” will be re-released on CD by Metalville on August 8th, remastered.As the press release states: “Between 2010 and 2012, many SWEET shows were recorded in various countries, and “Sweet Fanny Adams Revisited” (recorded at a concert in 2012) delivers the very essence of these extraordinary performances. The success of the original 1973 album “Sweet Fanny Adams” was the catalyst that propelled Sweet to worldwide superstar status. As a live performance almost 40 years after the release of the original album, “Sweet Fanny Adams Revisited” offers the finest Sweet classic hard rock. The band around Andy Scott presents itself in top form and impressively transports the special magic of the highly commercial power songs back to the stage.“In fact two songs from the original ’73 LP are completely omitted – namely ‘Rebel Rouser’ and ‘Peppermint Twist’ which are replaced in the live set by ‘The Six Teens’ (the opening track of Desolation Boulevard their next album), and classics ‘Fox on the Run’ (Also from Desolation Boulevard) and ‘Ballroom Blitz’ (The September 1974 single released 5 months after ‘Sweet Fanny Adams’).As an album it sounds great, Sweet always sounded better live, and this Andy Scott version of the band has a hard rock edge.It’s a a record that captures latter day Sweet nicely. Opener ‘Sweet F.A.’ sounds in fine fettle, rocking hard, with a furious solo and driving beat to get things going. The sonic approach is well away from the Glam and into Hard Rocking and it sounds all the better for it.There’s touches here and there that really work like the flamenco seasoning to ‘The Six Teens’ and Pete Lincoln’s vocals are solid throughout.In truth though as you might expect it’s ‘Fox on the Run’ & ‘Ballroom Blitz’ that soar to steal the show, harder edged and heavier. This is testament to the songs which sound maybe even better with age showing the new band’s stage confidence nearly four decades after the songs were written.It’s not just nostalgia—it’s proof that these songs defy the passage of time.
Line Up:
Pete Lincoln - Lead Vocals, Bass
Andy Scott - Guitar, keyboards, vocals
Tony O’Hora - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Bruce Bisland - Drums, Backing Vocals
Tracklist:
01. Sweet F.A. (Live – Remastered)
02. Heartbreak Today (Live – Remastered)
03. The Six Teens (Live – Remastered)
04. Restless (Live – Remastered)
05. No You Don’t (Live – Remastered)
06. Into The Night (Live – Remastered)
07. AC/DC (Live – Remastered)
08. Fox On The Run (Live – Remastered)
09. Set Me Free (Live – Remastered)
10. Ballroom Blitz (Live – Remastered)
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