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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]
2 1 5 1 1 1 2 2 3 5 CAN: Gold [17] UK: Silver [14] "Teenage Rampage" 1974 2 10 16 — 1 1 11 2 7 — UK: Silver [14] "The Six Teens" 9 48 9 — 4 15 10 7 11 — Desolation Boulevard "Turn It Down" 41 — 14 — 4 — — 4 10 — "Peppermint Twist" [D] — 4 — — — — — — — — Sweet Fanny Adams "Fox on the Run" 1975 2 1 3 2 1 2 2 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.
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.
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.
The song was recorded on 11–12 June 1973 at Audio International Studio, 18 Rodmarton Street, London, [10] [11] and released as a single in September 1973. The song appeared on the US and Canadian versions of Desolation Boulevard but never appeared on a Sweet album in the UK, other than hits compilations.
A review of the release by Mark Deming of AllMusic was more appreciative than that of his predecessor, saying that "most [of the tracks] walk a graceful tightrope between sly humor and solid pop-friendly rock & roll" and recommending that "anyone who digs a great hook played with heart should get to know the music of Neil Innes". [2]
"Stairway to the Stars" was withheld from the RCA album release and later issued as a single as a follow-up to "Lost Angels" and "Fever of Love". All three singles proved to be commercial flops (except some countries like Sweden, Germany, Austria, South Africa, and Denmark, where all or some broke the top 10 and 20).