That statement is quite true when I think about it. I was a teenager like any other with various school boy interests. I can remember being on a school trip
from Portsmouth to London for whatever the reason was. We had lunch in a park and in those days someone always had a radio. Julie Dear had one that day and
I'll never forget hearing "Little Willy" for the first time ever. We both loved it (and I thought I loved her too....blond and the best
lookin' bird on the trip actually)
Time passed by and for some reason it was "Blockbuster" that got my attention next and after buying the said RCA single I was hooked. I couldn't believe it when it entered the charts and went to No.1!! I went down to my local record shop and ordered copies of "Little Willy" and "Wig Wam Bam". Just after this I happened to be in Switzerland and at a disco one night checked out their jukebox. I couldn't believe my eyes!! So many SWEET songs on it that I'd never heard of...."Poppa Joe, Co-Co, Funny Funny etc, etc.
I put my money in, pressed all the button for all the SWEET songs but.............it was turned off and I lost my money.
A sister of one of my 'best mates' at the time owned a restaurant and every Sunday we used to listen to the top 20 countdown. I knew SWEET had a new single out called "Hell Raiser". His sister hated it but I waited in her restaurant for it to be crowned No.1.
No.2, I couldn't believe it never made No.1, oh well.
I bought the single twice hoping it would go to the top!
At school a fellow pupil (Mark Crow) told me SWEET had a new single out that he'd heard on the radio called "The Ballroom Blitz", This was a definite No.1 HIT. We all listened at school to be sure it had made it to the top. I was really fed up to hear that the 'Simon Park Orchestra' had got there. No way.
I remember having to trade my copy of "Ride a White Swan" by T.Rex for a copy of "Teenage Rampage".
I used to play the B-Sides as much as the A Sides, but when I heard THIS B-Side it was shear bliss. I used to make my brother choose a number from 1 to 18?
Each number corresponded to a SWEET A or B side and it HAD to be played. At one point, I wouldn't buy any records that weren't on the RCA label?
Perry Como, The Searchers, Elvis, and that kind of blew that one outa' the water.
School trip time and i'm in London once more! We are making our way up Oxford Street i think and the command was 'keep together'......I thought it would only take seconds to nip into a record shop and get a copy of "The Six-Teens"?
How wrong I was, Lost the rest of the school party but all ended as well as it could have (Julie Dear was most impressed with my purchase and we sat together eating cherries all the way home!
The first time I ever heard "Turn It Down" I was sitting in my Dad's Chrysler outside the Gas Board. It was early evening and Dave Lee Travis introduced it but never had a good word to say about it. I played the B-Side to that to death. I could never understand why it never got higher than 41.
I used to walk with a mate of mine to a club and on the way we always used to play SWEET Fanny Adams on a cassette player. I remember giving the DJ playing "Heartbreak Today" and announcing it as the 'new' SWEET single??
"Fox On The Run" i'd obviously heard before on the "Desolation Boulevard" album but not quite like this! SWEET were back with a vengeance and a No.1 hit single? In most other territories YES. The UK no. Not quite anyway. A new single release.....ACTION.
WOW! Blew me away. Respect, I was so proud to be a SWEET fan then. Minor scuffles up till' then but they proved to everyone what they were really about with that song. High hopes for more success with "The Lies In Your Eyes" but No.35 (UK) was the best it could do?
Some truly fantastic singles arrived next but failed to help my fight to prove the band were up there with the best of them. "Love Is Like Oxygen" was a breath of fresh air, I must have bought 5 or 6 copies of that record just to help s
I used to go to 'Reading Rock' year in, year out, covered in SWEET logo's and stuff and pretty much had to fight my way out of some situations, no problem, I believed in this band with a passion and I still do to this day.
I used to go to most of Andy's gigs and some of Brians too.
Andy has been good to me in the latter part of SWEET's life and Kev Smith has been brilliant. I've had it good in recent years, I've still got my 1976 haircut, Still wear dodgy 'out loud' clothes, and I'm as much a SWEET fan as I was on my school trip to London back in 1973.
SWEET changed my life and thanks for that but most of all, THANKYOU FOR THE MUSIC.
Happy 60th.
P.C
Time passed by and for some reason it was "Blockbuster" that got my attention next and after buying the said RCA single I was hooked. I couldn't believe it when it entered the charts and went to No.1!! I went down to my local record shop and ordered copies of "Little Willy" and "Wig Wam Bam". Just after this I happened to be in Switzerland and at a disco one night checked out their jukebox. I couldn't believe my eyes!! So many SWEET songs on it that I'd never heard of...."Poppa Joe, Co-Co, Funny Funny etc, etc.
I put my money in, pressed all the button for all the SWEET songs but.............it was turned off and I lost my money.
A sister of one of my 'best mates' at the time owned a restaurant and every Sunday we used to listen to the top 20 countdown. I knew SWEET had a new single out called "Hell Raiser". His sister hated it but I waited in her restaurant for it to be crowned No.1.
No.2, I couldn't believe it never made No.1, oh well.
I bought the single twice hoping it would go to the top!
At school a fellow pupil (Mark Crow) told me SWEET had a new single out that he'd heard on the radio called "The Ballroom Blitz", This was a definite No.1 HIT. We all listened at school to be sure it had made it to the top. I was really fed up to hear that the 'Simon Park Orchestra' had got there. No way.
I remember having to trade my copy of "Ride a White Swan" by T.Rex for a copy of "Teenage Rampage".
I used to play the B-Sides as much as the A Sides, but when I heard THIS B-Side it was shear bliss. I used to make my brother choose a number from 1 to 18?
Each number corresponded to a SWEET A or B side and it HAD to be played. At one point, I wouldn't buy any records that weren't on the RCA label?
Perry Como, The Searchers, Elvis, and that kind of blew that one outa' the water.
School trip time and i'm in London once more! We are making our way up Oxford Street i think and the command was 'keep together'......I thought it would only take seconds to nip into a record shop and get a copy of "The Six-Teens"?
How wrong I was, Lost the rest of the school party but all ended as well as it could have (Julie Dear was most impressed with my purchase and we sat together eating cherries all the way home!
The first time I ever heard "Turn It Down" I was sitting in my Dad's Chrysler outside the Gas Board. It was early evening and Dave Lee Travis introduced it but never had a good word to say about it. I played the B-Side to that to death. I could never understand why it never got higher than 41.
I used to walk with a mate of mine to a club and on the way we always used to play SWEET Fanny Adams on a cassette player. I remember giving the DJ playing "Heartbreak Today" and announcing it as the 'new' SWEET single??
"Fox On The Run" i'd obviously heard before on the "Desolation Boulevard" album but not quite like this! SWEET were back with a vengeance and a No.1 hit single? In most other territories YES. The UK no. Not quite anyway. A new single release.....ACTION.
WOW! Blew me away. Respect, I was so proud to be a SWEET fan then. Minor scuffles up till' then but they proved to everyone what they were really about with that song. High hopes for more success with "The Lies In Your Eyes" but No.35 (UK) was the best it could do?
Some truly fantastic singles arrived next but failed to help my fight to prove the band were up there with the best of them. "Love Is Like Oxygen" was a breath of fresh air, I must have bought 5 or 6 copies of that record just to help s
I used to go to 'Reading Rock' year in, year out, covered in SWEET logo's and stuff and pretty much had to fight my way out of some situations, no problem, I believed in this band with a passion and I still do to this day.
I used to go to most of Andy's gigs and some of Brians too.
Andy has been good to me in the latter part of SWEET's life and Kev Smith has been brilliant. I've had it good in recent years, I've still got my 1976 haircut, Still wear dodgy 'out loud' clothes, and I'm as much a SWEET fan as I was on my school trip to London back in 1973.
SWEET changed my life and thanks for that but most of all, THANKYOU FOR THE MUSIC.
Happy 60th.
P.C
...Ralf
) and recorded it so I could listen
to it over and over and over again.
) but he said
that the last song was one that he had sang with three very good friends of his and it was called Windy City.
aswell at the time but now i know he camped it up soo
much.. then as i got to 7 or 8 and i listened to more of their songs on tape i grown to love the look of the band especially brian and i adore his voice to
this day and andys guitar skills i just loved and the way mick played those drums it made me want to jump.... they just made music matter to me sooo much.. i
was even more shocked though when it came up on the news thar brian had died becasue i didnt knoe much at the time that he used to drink alot.. and i didnt
know what the others were doing either.. So when i got to about 10 or 11 i did my research and found out what i could about the band. I have also bought a dvd
on them aswell as a greatest hits album and got tons on you tube aswell that my dad chucked away when he got rid of his video player maybe i will find a way of
transfering them over lol.I am glad i got introduced to their music because if i didnt i think i wouldnt have been listening to some crappy rapping or hip hop
and what not and i wouldnt have listened to real music so thank brian, mick, andy and steve for creating such fantastic music!! Now all i would love to do now
is see andy play live and hoopefully i can at bilston 
