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Sweet consisted of singer Brian Connolly, drummer Michael 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. Scott would later say it only happened because they needed an excuse to meet Top Of The Pops dancers Pan's People and figured that going to the make-up room was a good method of doing so. Once they were in there, they started experimenting.
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. Their biggest hit was the UK Number 1 Blockbuster in 1973 though in the UK charts they were mildly unfortunate not to add more chart-toppers - no less than five more singles (Co-Co; Hell Raiser; The Ballroom Blitz; Teenage Rampage; and Fox On The Run) all peaked at Number 2. Love is Like Oxygen was 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 liverThe liver is an organ in vertebrates including humans. It plays a major role in metabolism and has a number of functions in the body including detoxification, glycogen storage and plasma protein synthesis. It also produces bile which is important for dige failure in 19971997 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Reef''. Events January January 3 NBC's Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 Mister Rogers receives a star on t 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 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom from leukaemia at the age of 54.