Twin2
Honourable Brethren
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Post by Twin2 on Jun 5, 2020 7:45:37 GMT
Guitarist from The Sweet.
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Post by fordcapri on Jun 5, 2020 12:54:01 GMT
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Post by felixdeburgh on Jun 5, 2020 12:55:15 GMT
The first group I really followed.
RIP.
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Post by pr1 on Jun 5, 2020 14:00:59 GMT
I was listening to Fox on the Run the other day. I remember hearing Ballroom Blitz as a kid and thinking it was goofy, amusing and liking it for those reasons.
Rest In Peace
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Post by daz on Jun 6, 2020 8:10:07 GMT
Every record collection should contain a Sweet greatest hits collection.
RIP Steve
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Post by bodiesstuntdouble on Jun 6, 2020 10:36:30 GMT
Good guitarist from an unfairly underated rock band. Glam is all too often regarded as a lot of camp flashy nonsense , which of course it sometimes was (although that was often part of it's appeal !) but The Sweet had a solid rocking dimension to them. Go listen to Fox On The Run as way of a tribute.
RIP Sir
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Post by Shot By Both Sides on Jun 6, 2020 13:11:59 GMT
I don't think I have any glam rock in my collection of around 100gb and can't say it is missed.
Sure, bands of the ilk will appear in my seventies mixes but I coukd never imagine having an urge to play Sweet. Mud, Slade or T. Rex singles ever again.
Roxy Music. 10cc and others of course are different gravy.
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Post by Portland Road on Jun 8, 2020 8:47:11 GMT
The Sweet, as with Slade, often made their best singles either side of the glam peak (which was c. mid-1972 to mid-74), when the 'camp flashyness' mentioned by bodiestuntdouble took over.
Tracks like 'Co Co' (1971) and 'Fox On the Run' (1975) tally with this.
R.I.P. Steve Priest.
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Post by thewoodster on Jun 12, 2020 11:04:54 GMT
RIP Steve priest.
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