Sweet: Ballroom Blitz: Live In Berlin 1976 - VINYL LP

Sweet: Ballroom Blitz: Live In Berlin 1976 - VINYL LP

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Ballroom Blitz: Live In Berlin 1976

Artist:

Sweet

Label:

Rockbeat Records

Product Type:

VINYL LP

UPC:

089353345327

Genre:

Rock

Sub Genre:

Power Pop

Release Date:

2022-10-07

Number of Discs:

1

In some ways, the Sweet epitomized all the tacky hubris and garish silliness of the early '70s. Fusing bubblegum melodies with crunching, fuzzy guitars, the band looked like a heavy metal band, but were as tame as any pop group. It was a dichotomy that served them well, as they racked up a number of hits in both the U.K. and the U.S. Most of those songs were written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, a pair of British songwriters who had a way with silly, simple, and catchy hooks. Chinn/Chapman and Sweet were smart enough to latch on to the British glam rock fad, building a safer, radio-friendly, and teen-oriented version of Queen, T. Rex, and Gary Glitter. By the end of the '70s, the group's time at the top of the charts had expired but their hit singles lived on not only as cultural artifacts, but also as the predecessors for the pop-metal of the '80s

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