The Sweet - Block Buster! (Blockbuster!) TopPop

This week is Seventies Week! We will upload 1970’s hits only! To highlight the Glamrock of the 1970’s we feature this week glamrock band The Sweet. Steve Priest, the bassist who sang in the London glam rock band the Sweet, has died last year, June 5, 2020. Priest joined the Sweet in 1968 and stayed with the group for all of their nine studio albums. They disbanded in 1982. The band was best known for hit singles in the ’70s like “Fox on the Run,” “Love Is Like Oxygen,” and “Little Willy.” “The Ballroom Blitz,” arguably their best known song, begins with singer Brian Connolly asking the question, “Are you ready, Steve?” Priest’s memoir, also called Are You Ready, Steve?, was released in the years prior to his death, Priest remained active as a musician, touring the world with his own version of the band called Steve Priest’s Sweet. “He was the best bass player I ever played with,” Andy Scott wrote in a statement. “The noise we made as a band was so powerful. From that moment in the summer of 1970 when set off on our Musical Odyssey the world opened up and the rollercoaster ride started! ... Rest in Peace brother. All my love.” The Sweet (also known as Sweet) are a British bubblegum and glam rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s. Their best known line-up consisted of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker. The group was originally called Sweetshop. The band was formed in London in 1968 and achieved their first hit, “Funny Funny“, in 1971 after teaming up with songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman and record producer Phil Wainman. During 1971 and 1972, their musical style followed a marked progression from the Archies-like bubblegum style of “Funny Funny“ to a Who-influenced hard rock style supplemented by a striking use of high-pitched backing vocals. The band first achieved success in the UK charts, with thirteen Top 20 hits during the 1970s alone, with “Block Buster!“ (1973) topping the chart, followed by three consecutive number two hits in “Hell Raiser“ (1973), “The Ballroom Blitz“ (1973) and “Teenage Rampage“ (1974). The band turned to a more hard rock style with their mid-career singles, like 1974’s “Turn It Down“. “Fox on the Run“ (1975) also reached number two on the UK charts. These results were topped in West Germany and other countries on the European mainland. They also achieved success and popularity in the US with the top ten hits “Little Willy“, “The Ballroom Blitz“, “Fox on the Run“ and “Love is Like Oxygen“. This Toppop video was first broadcast on 15 January 1973 Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 15 January 1973 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.