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Nicky was the one who stumped a fairly sizeable chunk of his own cash to get the Sweet's career kickstarted. Whilst it might be so that Chapman was the musical brains of the outfit, it was Nicky's business acumen that got the band ahead of the pack. Of course, history may bear out that Chinn and Chapman did better financially out of the whole deal than Sweet ever did but that's business. I think in the early days the band was actually very appreciative of Nicky's assistance and I believe Brian asked him to be godfather to his first born. Of course, time and perceptions change, and there's a bitterness now evident when Nick is spoken of- Phil Wainman left the hitmaking arrangement for business rather than musical reasons, so there's plenty of fodder for the view that Nicky was business first sentiment second. He did however, have limited success writing lyrics before Chapman-Sweet happened along- he wrote some of the tunes with Manfred Mann's Mike D'Abo for the movie There's A Girl in My Soup.