"Sweet And Sour" - the Glam tribute

From around '69 to '75 a peculiar over-the top era existed, in spite of, (or an antidote to) recession.
A riot of colour, glitter, pastiche, platforms, Afghans, loons, lurex, cheesecloth, bouffant, side burns, 'taches, hot pants, bell bottoms, mullets, boob tubes, Dr. Scholls, streakers, fondu, lava lamps, stylophones, cullotts, bean bags, water beds, choppers, Ford Capri, furry dice, Pan's People, Hot Gossip, K-Tel, Ronco, Brut, Smitty, Harmony hair spray, Milk Tray man, Vesta meals, Angel Delight, Curlywurlies, Turkish Delight, Smash (for mash get...), Spangles, Fray Bentos, Finger of Fudge, TV dinners, pineapple on a stick, black forest gateau, Wagon Wheels, Twiglets, Terry's, Terry and June, Cinzano, Campari, (Brandy and) Babycham, Party 7, Lager and blackcurrant Hirondelle, Blue Nun, Black Tower.
Cassettes, the album/double album/triple album, Betamax, 8 Track, Atari, Commodore, Apple II, floppy disks, Space Invaders, Pong, frisbees, Radio 1 DJs (enough said), proto X-factor (Hughie Green, Mickie Most, Tony Hatch), Liver Birds, Likely Lads, Please Sir, Jason King, The Sweeney, The Saint, The Professionals, Bionic Man, Charlie's Angels, Brady Bunch, Starsky and Hutch, Generation Game, Tiswas, Bagpuss, Clangers, Wombles, Swap Shop, Bazoooka Joe, space hoppers, Kerplunk, Teasmade, Hostess trolleys, Polaroids, Python, Goodies, Benny Hill, Reggie Perrin, Alf Garnett, Dougall, Bernie the Bolt, Love Boat, Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, Young And The Restless, Price is right, Little and Large, Les Dawson, Morecombe and Wise, Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, Tommy Cooper, Brucie, Larry Grason, Dr. Who, Porridge, Monty P, Teletext, colour TV, cable TV, HBO, Soap, Saturday Night Live, M*A*S*H, Clockwork Orange, Rocky, Rocky Horror Show, The Exorcist, The Stud, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Sting, Star Wars, Godfather, Jaws, Deer Hunter, Last Tango in Paris, Towering Inferno, Midnight Express, Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Cookoo's Nest, Close Encounters, Annie Hall, Earthquake, Catch 22, Linda Lovelace - Deep Throat, Debbie Does Dallas, Emmanuel, Carry On..., Confessions Of A..., Mary Millington, Mary Whitehouse, top shelf, Penthouse, Hustler.
The 70s goes on: Sounds Of The 70s, Radio Lux, John Peel, Old Grey Whistle Test (whispering Bob Harris), festivals (Reading, Knebworth etc.), Disco Sucks, Punk, Warhol, Maclaren, Viv Westwood, Sex Pistols, Clash, Damned, Ramones, New Wave vs Old Wave (ELP, Yes, Led Zep, Sabbath, Tull, Skynrd, Purple, Doobies, Genesis, Floyd etc.). Sod The Jubilee, Rock Against Racism, CND, Beatles split, Players No. 6, Best, Marsh, Bowles, Worthington, Clough and Revie, Hunt the Shunt, Farah Fawcett, Woody Allen, Ali-Foreman- Frasier, JR, Nixon, Watergate, The Shah, Peròn, Neil Armstrong, Bruce Lee, Patty Hearst, Thatcher, Biko, Unions, 3 day week, decimalisation (10p in the meter), oil shock, '74 crash, stagflation, Viet Cong, Saigon, Camp David, Brezhnev, Bangladesh, Munich, Lebanon, Amin, Marcos, Pol Pot, Selassie, Salt II, Pinochet, Mile Island, Magaluf (Viva España! ), failed in Mexico, Poles knock England out, Ally's Tartan Army.
Terracotta Army, Laura Ashley, prog rock, heavy metal, disco, JC Superstar, Mr Men, Bloody Sunday, Mao, Red Guards, Pele, Mark Spitz, Bobby Moore, Germaine Greer, Idi Amin, Olga Korbut, Smith and Carlos (black power), Bo Derek, Lord Lucan, Clive Sinclair, Frank Spencer, Uncle Bulgaria, Red Rum, Bob Marley, Elvis (....dead, with Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison etc.), Elton John, A. Cooper, Costello, Frampton, Quo, Ted Heath, Harold Wilson, (then Thatcher), Bellow, Updike, King, Leo Sayer, Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Barry Manilow, Abba, New York Dolls, Gary Glitter, Alvin Stardust, Bay City Rollers, David Essex, Lieutenant Pidgeon, Jackson 5, David Cassidy, The Carpenters, 10cc, The Rubettes, The Osmonds, Showaddywaddy. And most Glamtastically: Bowie, TRex, Mud, Slade, Susi Q and The Sweet!
This was GLAM. This is our tribute.
Listen on Soundcloud.
3 Piece Sweet are:
Neil Murray - vocals/guitars
Mark "Milly" Millin - drums/vocals
(who wishes to thank Bern Stuiver
for inspiring the whole thing!)
Alexa Waters - vocals
Ken McGowan - guitars
Andy Kinch - keys
Recorded/mixed at
Gravity Shack, London (Jessica Corcoran)
Perry Vale Studios, London (Pat Collier)
Master at Wired Masters, London
In 2013 we went to see The Sweet perform for the benefit of Ingrid, an old friend of the band. We spoke to Andy Scott, the guitar player in a pub in south London 40 years after it all happened. We gave him some of these songs. Wonder if he listened... ..?)
PS If you want more '70s people, check out this list!
Actors / Entertainers
- Ursula Andress
- Warren Beatty
- Mel Brooks
- Charles Bronson
- Jackie Chan
- Joan Collins
- Britt Ekland
- Peter Falk
- Gene Hackman
- Dustin Hoffman
- Paul Hogan
- Don Johnson
- Olivia Newton-John
- Martin Landau
- Lee Majors
- Steve Martin
- Lee Marvin
- Liza Minnelli
- Jack Nicholson
- Leslie Nielsen
- Ryan O'Neal
- Peter O'Toole
- Al Pacino
- Jon Pertwee
- Christopher Plummer
- Sidney Poitier
- Richard Pryor
- Anthony Quinn
- Christopher Reeve
- Joan Rivers
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- George C. Scott
- Jean Seberg
- Peter Sellers
- Jane Seymour
- Omar Sharif
- William Shatner
- Sylvester Stallone
- Meryl Streep
- John Travolta
- Robin Williams
- Henry Winkler
- Jack Nicholson
Filmmakers
- Clint Eastwood
- Martin Scorsese
- Stanley Kubrick
- Roman Polanski
- Sergio Leone
- Terry Gilliam
- David Lean
- Sam Peckinpah
- François Truffaut
- David Lynch
- Frederico Fellini
- Sydney Pollack
- Alfred Hitchcock
Musicians
- Jeff Beck
- Captain Beefheart
- Glen Campbell
- John Cale
- Johnny Cash
- David Cassidy
- Ray Charles
- Eric Clapton
- Joe Cocker
- Leonard Cohen
- Miles Davis
- Neil Diamond
- Bob Dylan
- Donovan
- Bryan Ferry
- Rory Gallagher
- Marvin Gaye
- Hall & Oates
- George Harrison
- Emmylou Harris
- Isaac Hayes
- Janis Joplin
- Carole King
- Kris Kristofferson
- John Lennon
- Meat Loaf
- Kenny Loggins
- Curtis Mayfield
- John Mayall
- Paul McCartney
- Don McLean
- Bette Midler
- Joni Mitchell
- Van Morrison
- Willie Nelson
- Olivia Newton-John
- Harry Nilsson
- Roy Orbison
- Dolly Parton
- Iggy Pop
- Lou Reed
- Cliff Richard
- Linda Ronstadt
- Diana Ross
- Bob Seger
- Carly Simon
- Paul Simon
- Patti Smith
- Ringo Starr
- Rod Stewart
- Cat Stevens
- Barbra Streisand
- Bruce Springsteen
- Donna Summer
- James Taylor
- Ike & Tina Turner
- Peter Tosh
- Barry White
- Bill Withers
- Johnny Winter
- Tammy Wynette
- Neil Young
- Frank Zappa
Bands
- ABBA
- AC/DC
- Aerosmith
- The Allman Brothers Band
- America
- The B-52's
- The Band
- The Beach Boys
- Bee Gees
- Black Sabbath
- Blondie
- Blue Öyster Cult
- Boston
- Bread
- The Byrds
- The Cars
- Chicago
- The Clash
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Deep Purple
- Devo
- Dire Straits
- The Doors
- Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
- Eagles
- Earth, Wind & Fire
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Fleetwood Mac
- Foreigner
- Genesis
- Grateful Dead
- Heart
- The Hollies
- The Jackson 5
- Jethro Tull
- Journey
- Kansas
- The Kinks
- Kiss
- Gladys Knight & the Pips
- Kool & the Gang
- Kraftwerk
- Led Zeppelin
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- The Marshall Tucker Band
- Paul McCartney and Wings
- Motörhead
- The Osmonds
- The Alan Parsons Project
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- Pink Floyd
- The Police
- Queen
- Rainbow
- Ramones
- The Rolling Stones
- Rush
- Sex Pistols
- Styx
- Supertramp
- The Supremes
- Talking Heads
- The Temptations
- Thin Lizzy
- Van Halen
- Village People
- The Walker Brothers
- The Who
- Yes
- ZZ Top
- Kiss
Writers
- Douglas Adams
- Isaac Asimov
- John le Carré
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Jackie Collins
- Michael Crichton
- Ken Follett
- Eleanor Hibbert
- Stephen King
- Robert Ludlum
- Norman Mailer
- Gabriel García Márquez
- James A. Michener
- Iris Murdoch
- V. S. Naipaul
- Terry Pratchett
- Mario Puzo
- Ruth Rendell
- Harold Robbins
- Philip Roth
- Dr. Seuss
- Hunter S. Thompson
- John Updike
- Gore Vidal
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Tom Wolfe
Sports figures
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Muhammad Ali
- Arthur Ashe
- Gordon Banks
- Rick Barry
- Franz Beckenbauer
- George Best
- Björn Borg
- Valeriy Borzov
- Bobby Charlton
- Jack Charlton
- Jimmy Connors
- Johan Cruyff
- Kenny Dalglish
- Eusébio
- Chris Evert
- George Foreman
- Joe Frazier
- Evonne Goolagong
- Larry Holmes
- Jairzinho
- Caitlyn Jenner (then known as Bruce Jenner)
- Alberto Juantorena
- Kevin Keegan
- Kipchoge Keino
- Mario Kempes
- Billie Jean King
- Niki Lauda
- Rod Laver
- John McEnroe
- Pietro Mennea
- Edwin Moses
- Gerd Muller
- Jack Nicklaus
- Ken Norton
- Arnold Palmer
- Pat Patterson
- Walter Payton
- Pelé
- Rivellino
- Ken Rosewall
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Earnie Shavers
- O. J. Simpson
- Stan Smith
- Sócrates
- Leon Spinks
- Mark Spitz
- Roger Staubach
- Berti Vogts
- Bill Walton
- Arsène Wenger
- Dino Zoff
- Zico