Sweet (band)

Sweet (referred to as "The Sweet" on one album) were a popular British glam rock group of the 1970s. They had many UK hits, including:

Teenage Rampage
Hell Raiser
Little Willy
Fox on the Run
Co-Co
Funny Funny
The Ballroom Blitz
Blockbuster!
Poppa Joe
Love is Like Oxygen
Wig-Wam Bam

Sweet consisted of singer Brian Connolly, drummer Mick Tucker, bassist Steve Priest, and guitarist Andy Scott. A product of the very successful Chinnichap songwriting team (Nicky Chinn/ Mike Chapman), Sweet are perhaps best remembered for their outrageous stage gear - glitter and platform boots and heavy makeup - practically defining the camp extreme of the glam rock look.

Sweet had strong songs that are still frequently heard on oldies radio shows, but their career was founded on the ephemeral young teenage market, and was fairly short-lived, Love is Like Oxygen being their last UK hit in 1978. Fox on the Run, The Ballroom Blitz, and Love is Like Oxygen were by far their biggest hits in the US.

In 1979 Brian Connolly left the band under acrimonious circumstances and neither he nor the band recovered. The band had drug problems and were particularly suffering from the effects of substantial alcohol intake. Brian suffered several cardiac arrests at the height of his excess.

Brian died from liver failure in 1997 having been content in his final years to appear in retrospective documentaries to demonstrate the damage he'd inflicted upon himself.

Mick Tucker died in 2002 from leukaemia at the age of 54.