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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.
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.
Fanny Adams (30 April 1859 – 24 August 1867) was an eight-year-old English girl who was murdered by a solicitor's clerk, Frederick Baker, in Alton, Hampshire, in 1867. Her murder was extraordinarily brutal and caused a national outcry in the United Kingdom.
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]
Sweet Fanny Adams "Fox on the Run" 1975 2 1 3 2 1 2 2 2 6 5 CAN: Gold [17] US: Gold [16] Desolation Boulevard "Action" 15 4 3 5 2 7 5 2 2 20 Give Us a Wink
Give Us a Wink is the fourth studio album by British rock band Sweet.It was the first album to be fully written and produced by the band members. Previously they had relied on material from the songwriting team of Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman.
Fanny were the first all-female rock band to release a major-label album and score a top 40 single, yet they’ve been the victims of almost total erasure. The lost story of female rock pioneers ...
Sweet also adopted a more conventional hard rock sound and appearance. Sweet Fanny Adams also featured compressed high-pitched backing vocal harmonies, which was a trend that continued on all of Sweet's albums. [citation needed] During sessions for the album, Brian Connolly was injured in a fight in Staines, on High Street. His throat was badly ...