The Sweet had their last international success in 1978 with "Love Is Like Oxygen".
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30 Facts About The Sweet
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The Sweet were released from the recording contract and Frank Torpey left after a further year of fruitless toil.
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In late 1965, that band became The Phil Wainman Set when the future The Sweet producer joined on drums and the group cut some singles with Errol Dixon.
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4.
The Sweet signed a new record contract with EMI's Parlophone label.
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5.
The Sweet had most recently been playing with Mike McCartney in the Scaffold.
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The Sweet appeared on the band's lone album release, Expansions on Life, and on some recordings by the Scaffold.
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The Sweet initially attempted to combine diverse musical influences, including the Monkees and 1960s bubblegum pop groups such as the Archies, with more heavy rock-oriented groups such as the Who.
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The Sweet adopted the rich vocal harmony style of the Hollies, with distorted guitars and a heavy rhythm section.
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9.
The Sweet had one side of the record; the Pipkins had the other.
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10.
The Sweet's contribution consisted of the A- and B-sides of the band's three Parlophone singles.
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11.
The Sweet made their UK television debut in December 1970 on a pop show called Lift Off, performing the song "Funny Funny".
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12.
The Sweet had always composed their own heavy-rock songs on the B-sides of their singles to contrast with the bubblegum A-sides which were composed by Chinn and Chapman.
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The Sweet adopted a more conventional hard rock sound and appearance.
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14.
The Sweet Fanny Adams featured compressed high-pitched backing vocal harmonies, which was a trend that continued on all of The Sweet's albums.
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15.
The Sweet's throat was badly injured and his ability to sing severely limited.
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16.
The Sweet were invited by Pete Townshend to support the Who, who were playing at Charlton Athletic's football ground, The Valley in June 1974.
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The Sweet had frequently cited the Who as being one of their main influences and played a medley of their tracks in their live set for many years.
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In 1975 The Sweet went back into the studio to re-arrange and record a more pop-oriented version of the track "Fox on the Run".
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Now confident in their own songwriting and production abilities, The Sweet spent the latter half of 1975 in Musicland Studios in Munich, Germany, where they recorded the Give Us A Wink album with German sound engineer Reinhold Mack, who later recorded with Electric Light Orchestra and co-produced Queen.
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20.
Between October 1976 and January 1977, The Sweet wrote and recorded new material at Kingsway Recorders and Audio International London studios for their next album.
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21.
On this album, The Sweet again worked with Give Us A Wink engineer Louis Austin, who would later engineer Def Leppard's On Through The Night 1980 debut album.
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22.
The Sweet left RCA in 1977 and signed a new deal with Polydor though it would not come into force until later in the year.
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24.
The Sweet continued as a trio with Priest assuming the lion's share of lead vocals, though Scott and Tucker were active in that role.
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25.
The Sweet undertook a short tour of the UK and performed their last live show at Glasgow University on 20 March 1981.
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26.
The Sweet continued with Sweet commuting back and forth to Europe for the group's tours until this proved to be too cumbersome.
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27.
In January 2009, the Sweet presented at the concert industry's Pollstar Awards, and played a short set at the Nokia Theatre where the event was held, marking the first time in the ceremony's history that a band performed at the show.
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28.
On 11 November 2010, it was announced that in May 2011 "Steve Priest's The Sweet" had been booked to perform at a handful of European dates, but the gigs ultimately had to be cancelled in late January 2011 after it was learned that one of the promoters was a suspected swindler wanted by British law enforcement officials.
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29.
The Sweet was interviewed by Power Hour, Super Channel, and spoke of a possible reunion.
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