Guilty Pleasures: The Sweet

I saw Sweet in 1973 and 1975. They put on quite entertaining shows. Sometimes the "glam" image they had and the outrageous lifestyles made people forget that they were actually good musicians. "Action", "Sweet FA", and "Love Is Like Oxygen" are a few of their memorable hits. Time has not been kind to the members of Sweet. The singer Brian died young, aided at least in part by alcohol use. Mick the drummer died of leukemia. The only two living original members do not play together any more. The guitarist Andy Scott occasionally fronts his Andy Scott's Sweet group. The bass player, Steve Priest, now lives in California. Unfortunately like so many other groups of that era the egos, drug use, and other excesses caused a great group to disintegrate.