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Desolation Boulevard is the third studio album by the British glam rock band Sweet, originally released in the United Kingdom in November 1974.Two noticeably different versions of the album were released: one by RCA Records in Europe, and another by Capitol Records in the United States, Canada and Japan.
Released: 14 April 2017; Label: RCA/Sony Music; Formats: 7×LP; 61 Sensational Sweet Chapter One: The Wild Bunch: Released: 10 November 2017; Label: RCA/Sony Music; Formats: 9×CD; 28 The Polydor Albums: Released: 1 December 2017; Label: Caroline; Formats: 4×CD — "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.
The Sweet is a compilation album released as Sweet's debut album in the US and Canada, substituting for the 1971 UK album Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be. (The band's second album, Sweet Fanny Adams was also not given a US release, but tracks from that and the band's third album Desolation Boulevard were combined on the US version of that album to compensate for this.) [citation needed]
In January 1973 "Block Buster!" became The Sweet's first single to reach number 1 on the UK chart, remaining there for five consecutive weeks. [2] After their next single "Hell Raiser" was released in May and reached number 2 in the UK, the band's US label, Bell, released the group's first American album The Sweet in July 1973. [2]
Sweet Fanny Adams is the second album by Sweet, released on 26 April 1974 through RCA Records. [2] [3] [4]Also their first album simply as Sweet.The album was a turning point and change in the band's sound, featuring more of a hard rock sound than their previous pop record.
was the band's sole UK No. 1 hit. Released in January 1973, it spent five weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart, [8] and also made #1 in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Ireland, and #3 in Finland, Switzerland, Denmark and Norway. Outside Europe it peaked at #1 in New Zealand, #29 in Australia and at #73 on the American Billboard Hot 100.
Queen’s 1973 eponymous debut album has always been an outlier in the group’s catalog. Yes, it’s a vivid opening statement that set the stage for the glorious creativity and bombast — the ...
Free broke up in 1971 due to tensions between members of the band. [1] In September, the group's first live album Free Live! was released, reaching number 4 on the UK Albums Chart and number 89 on the Billboard 200.