The Sweet is my favorite band of all time and I'm so glad Andy is still alive and is still rocking and kickin ass, R.I.P. Brian Connolly, Mick Tucker and Steve Priest, The Sweet Rocks Forever!

@TELFORD96

3 жыл бұрын

I agree 100 percent. Those who run it must be tone deaf.

Sweet should be in the Rock and Roll hall of fame ...

@lenadiene2065

3 жыл бұрын

I agree

@chijim108

3 жыл бұрын

Amen

@degeneratebum

3 жыл бұрын

Too right... long overdue

@timholman7535

3 жыл бұрын

@@lenadiene2065 ee

@glamgal7106

3 жыл бұрын

There is a Facebook page for the Rock and Roll HOF. I thought of creating a FB page to petition Sweet's induction. There are other FB pages created for that intention. However from seeing those pages and also having contacted the HOF page myself, one would be successful finding a needle in a haystack instead of seeing their band being inducted--simply put, it doesn't happen via fans' input. I think it's criminal that Sweet aren't in the HOF because they have defiitely met all the HOF's criteria for induction.

Sweet was my whole world when I was a kid back in the 70s. I still love this band.❤️

@marnixvermeersch8262

3 жыл бұрын

i loved sweet very much too,i am from belgium and 64 now and still look at those videos,it was fun then I was wild and happy then

@chynnadoll3277

2 жыл бұрын

Same here👍😍

@poulwinther

2 жыл бұрын

Same. My dad would come in and stop the cassette deck every night when I had fallen asleep at 6 y.o.

Lovely to watch my heart is broken over the loss of my dad bless you Andy

@yellingelk

3 жыл бұрын

Your old man was great... No doubt a natural born showman! And from what I can tell from seeing various interviews, he seemed to have been quite a very down to earth and honest bloke as well.

@johnenriquez6729

2 жыл бұрын

You are very lucky to have such a cool Dad and he's not really gone he's just waiting for you and then you'll be waiting for your family, xx

@jamcofec

2 жыл бұрын

Your father was amazing and has left an incredible forever legacy. I’m sure you’re very proud. The old videos of the band are just excellent and you could see they had fun. That’s what life’s about after all. Bless your Dad.

@Ravenoflight2275

2 жыл бұрын

Your day the best back up voice in Rock and Roll

@Ravenoflight2275

2 жыл бұрын

Your dad was an awesome bassist and the best back up voice in Rock and Roll. My heartfelt condolences to you for your loss .

Love the sweet and Andy Scott glad he's still rocking great band the seventies music was the best I was lucky to grow up listening to the best music and bands

Andy fully deserves all of his success and he has achieved so much respect as a writer, guitarist, vocalist and performer from other discerning musicians . Andy is still keeping the Sweet name alive ... God bless him !

God Bless you Andy , Keep Rockin! 😎👍

So good the music❤

The Sweet were very underrated as a talented band. Most thought they were just pop

@rcjward

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@paulbuxton1326

3 жыл бұрын

Awsome Rock band 🇬🇧

@paulgarbutt8113

3 жыл бұрын

i agree with you.

@degeneratebum

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely fantastic Rock band of the highest degree

@MetteC5

2 жыл бұрын

That's because the masses consume what's fed to them and are unable to single out gems by themselves. And I don't care about quantity: quality, and relating to people knowing how to find it, is what matters to me.

I met Steve Priest about three or four years ago at Riviera theater in North Tonawanda New York for a show. He signed all my sweet albums. Great guy

Met Andy in person in about early 2000s after a concert. Very humble and very genuine person to speak to, we actually took close up photos when they were playing with no objection at all. Unlike some of the musicians today who have a 9ft gorilla making sure you don't take any photos at all. Sweet was and still is my favourite band since I first heard Ballroom Blitz way back in the early seventies.

Awesome band! One of my faves in the 70s and still listen to them.

Great interview 👍 One of the most underrated bands that put out some great music.

@redblade8160

3 жыл бұрын

The Sweet was only "underrated" in the UK, but in Europe The Sweet were far more appreciated.

@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence

3 жыл бұрын

@@redblade8160 I think he means in hindsight..... they have been typically left out of classic rock discussion since the 1990s when on top of everything else they also accidently laid the groundwork for 1980s soft rock.

i like sweet. i do miss the other members but music is timeless.

Fantastic band.... “Desolation Boulevard” and “Give Us A Wink” were REALLY big in Los Angeles... where I’m from.

@tyronesharp401

3 жыл бұрын

Listened to the hell outta those out in San Berdino

@alexroberts9349

3 жыл бұрын

Listened to sweet on KLOS and KMET. I am from the San Fernando Valley. KLOS is still playing sweet today.

I met Brian Connolly on a train into London once, he was a troubled man but we laughed and chatted for the 20-25 minute journey. It came to light that the lifestyle had taken him out of his life and just left a performer not the person needing drugs to keep going. I looked into his eyes and he was troubled. A newspaper in the UK was reporting some lies about him and I was with him after what they had said. I asked for his autograph for a friend of mine who was a really big fan. But I'd rather remember these guys as fun loving glam rockers who loved their music and took their fans in on which I was a big one too. I look at the video for Fox on the run and think of Brian, it was a time I enjoyed and only wished I could help him or at least be in his corner when he was going into the fight. Thanks guys.

@silviazanicotti5054

Күн бұрын

Too bad for Brian, great sadness for him, that no one could help him. He was a good, sensitive and tormented person...he would have deserved so much support, what troubled and kind-hearted people like him deserve. The ghosts of the mind had turned a boy with the astonishing beauty of a medieval knight into a human wreck already in his forties. Still he remains a bright soul, may God have him in his glory ❤

Thanks for the music Andy!!! We love you!!!!!

As a drummer, I was so shocked last year to read that Mick had died. No one and i mean NO ONE has ever come up with such an iconic shuffle as he did, and that Ludwig sounded awesome. In fact i was shocked that 3 of them were dead (i knew about Brian)

@modspell

3 жыл бұрын

Ready Mick? Oh yes that drum intro was iconic. Still gets my blood flowing decades later.

@chriscampbell9191

Жыл бұрын

Mick Tucker was a drumming powerhouse.

In 1975 I was 8. I heard Sweet and that was it. I knew I had to play drums. still playing today. Thank you for this interview and fond memories. Andy is a cool dude.

The Sweet are an underrated hard rock heavy metal band!

@badmattam

3 жыл бұрын

Hi, hardly underrated. They were huge in the 70's. Trust me, I was there...they were very much the soundtrack of my/our youth. I had loads of their singles which I played to death and the single greatest reason why I became a lifelong rock/metal fan.

@MrBlueSky474

3 жыл бұрын

@@kingofallwhites A sides Glam rock, B sides and albums up to and not including Level Headed Hard rock

@herrbonk3635

3 жыл бұрын

@@kingofallwhites A dear child has many names.

@hardlines2635

3 жыл бұрын

Chinichap production, like Stock Aitkin and Waterman

@modspell

3 жыл бұрын

@@herrbonk3635 Or as we say state side “Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan.”

I have to say that Desolation Boulevard is one of the most underrated albums of all time in the rock genre.

Lovely to hear him talk about his dad. I lived next door and his mum and dad were lovely people indeed. Great interview.

@annetteminett8500

10 күн бұрын

Wow!

Fantastic interview from a fantastic musician.

Great interview, John. Andy has always been way ahead of his time as a guitarist and songwriter.

@vracan

3 жыл бұрын

yes great guitarist, unfortunately he was not really a songwriter.

@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence

3 жыл бұрын

@@vracan Huh? Most of the songs, at least during the classic period in the 1970s were written and arranged by the entire band together.... which includes Andy Scott.... Furthermore, as an individual, Andy Scott has more solo writing credits on the albums than anyone else.... He literally has writing credit on well.over 90% of Sweet's material..... What are you talking about?

@barnarddavis1534

3 жыл бұрын

set me free;..purely Andys song and one of their best..imo

One of my favorite concerts in the 70's - Sweet and Eric Carmen at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia, February 1976.

@SpotBentley

3 жыл бұрын

Saw the same awesome show at Stetson U. in Deland Florida in Feb 76.

@guywilliams3108

3 жыл бұрын

Wish I could have seen it. Eric was a good friend, and The sweet was to. Eric was the reason, I got to meet and hang out with The sweet.

@guywilliams3108

3 жыл бұрын

Steve came to visit me, he wanted to know how, I knew so many important people in the music world.

@guywilliams3108

3 жыл бұрын

I did show up at some of their concerts, I was a young kid. Everytime, I showed up the anoucer would introduce me as Little Willy. And ask if I was leaving.

@guywilliams3108

3 жыл бұрын

Deland Florida, I think I was there

Cool interview. I loved this band in the ‘70s and still do. It’s sad that Andy’s the last survivor. Cool as hell that they’re still making hits. All the best to them and thanks, John, for the video. God bless you!

i loved Sweet

Love ,love, love this ! He seems like a really cool friendly guy. So looking forward to the whole series. Sweet lives on! Thanks you for this John !

@redblade8160

3 жыл бұрын

foggy brain. Did you know that Andy Scott survived 'prostate cancer'; so he nearly joined the others?

@artrock101

3 жыл бұрын

This is the idiot who tried to sue a fan for selling a used Sweet Greatest Hits cd on ebay... and lost, badly.

@ccsounds

2 жыл бұрын

@@artrock101 Really?! Ugh 😖

Andy Scott amazing guitar player I seen him when I was 17 Santa Monica Civic the dude pulled off a killer guitar solo I was very impressed

One evening in 1974 a friend and I were in the Angel, a pub in Staines when we saw a guy that looked like Brian, on his own at the bar. We approached him and asked are you Brian Connolly of The Sweet? It was and we spent the evening talking and drinking with him. He’d been looking at houses that day and asked us to go with him to a nightclub across the road, sadly we declined as we had work the next day but he said he’d meet us next week in the Angel. That was the night Brian was attacked and his vocal cords damaged. If we’d gone with him maybe we could have helped him, sadly we never did meet again. R.I.P. Brian, thank you for an evening we’d never forget, to our surprise you were just like the rest of us, nothing like the image we saw on TV.

@historybuff3029

3 жыл бұрын

Really...?

As a little girl I loved this band and fell asleep every night staring at my Sweet poster 😍 Happy Days ❤

THANK YOU..ROCK HISTORY..FOR KEEPING ALL OF US UPDATED...ABOUT THE HISTORY OF MUSIC AND INTERVIEWS....AND EVERY THING THAT IS WHAT ALOT OF US MISSED OUT ON.....BEING THE AGE OF WHAT WENT ON WHEN IT DID.....WAS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE...MUSIC IS LIFE.....IT HELPS SAVE OUR WORLD....THANKS..FACT....AMEN 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🙏🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁👍👍👍

I will Always Love Sweet's Music, and the Guys! They were one of the worlds GREATEST Musicians!!!

Nice to see Andy looking so well, he being the only surviving member of the original "Sweet" line-up. I was 14 when Sweet and the other "Glam Rock" bands hit the scene. They were a great band, and great times to be a teenager. Hang on in there Andy. Keeping "Sweet" Alive.

@garydunn3037

3 жыл бұрын

We recently acquired new neighbours, who moved in next door and began to have major renovations done to the house. They subsequently made a lot of noise. So, in retaliation, I put "Sweets Greatest Hits" on very loud to counteract the noise they were making. Not that "Sweets" music is noise. Its just bloody good "Hell Raising" music.

So good!! ❤️

Loved them in the 70’s. I’ve bought most of their CD’s recently. Great band!

Great interview, thanks Andy for speaking to us!!!

What an underrated band. Ballroom Blitz was a garage band staple. Fox on the Run was all over AM and FM radio. On top of that the album cover of Gives Us a Wink is why I feel sorry sometimes for the download generation.

Great interview John. I am a big fan of early Sweet too. Their Musikladen concert is straight fire 🔥 Thanks for your fabulous livestream earlier tonight. Lots of fun meeting other fans/followers and see now why you’re a fine host.

@redblade8160

3 жыл бұрын

Dougie Fresh. When you say you were a fan of "early Sweet", do you mean as the original group or their early bubblegum songs before Blockbuster!?

Great idea to interview Andy Scott. The man is a living legend. His music has grown and so well evolved over the years. I say him play so many tiles, great artist. All my respect. These interviews add a new layer to his life work

There is no way to put to words my love for each of the Sweet guys. Every one was a superhero character to me. Andy Scott is a legend and I’m so glad he’s still around. A Lovely mate in every way, in and out of makeup.

What a terrific opportunity. That was cool to watch. I've always been a huge fan of Sweet starting from the 70's when I was in high school.

@xtrm2009

Ай бұрын

You got good taste in music, babe

I like Andy Scott so much. He such an.Entertaining talker.

Saw The Sweet 59 times in various line-ups - only once with the "classic" line up - thank God Andy still rocks and lets us old farts hear their songs live!

Thanks for the continued good work John and staff @ RHM. Desolation Blvd was big on my personal playlist as a kid in the early '70's. And, it was a plain hard white sleeve "Promotional Copy - Not For Sale." Pretty rare I'd guess. I wonder if I still have that ...

Thanks for sharing, I was 7 years when I was listening to their records the first time. I always loved Glam Rock and still do to this day. I grew up with T.Rex and Sweet. At that time I only owned an old record player, where I could listen to this music. But it was great. I still have all these Records kept for so many ages. Anyways great time, great songs, amazing high vocals and excellent arranged chant. All in all great music that will last forever. May Steve R.I.P. God bless you all!

Great interview. Glad I had a chance to meet Andy a very long time ago in the later part of 1990. They had tried to get the original, classic lineup back together, but, it didn't work out. Only Mick was with Andy at the time,at the gig that I saw Sweet at. Andy and Mick were great guys. and it was a great show. Andy still had the magic with his guitar playing, and high backing vocals. And Mick was a very solid drummer. But, I would have much preferred to have seen the original band. Brian, Steve, and Micks talents are missed. R.I.P.

@KayEl58

3 жыл бұрын

Mick was one of the best drummers of his generation.

@redblade8160

3 жыл бұрын

The original members of Sweet had a fall out with one another in 1978, especially with Brian Connolly and his alcohol addiction... In an interview with Brian Connolly he said that he never got on with Andy Scott from day one!

@thekitowl

3 жыл бұрын

I saw them when Mick was still with Andy in 94 . I asked Andy why he was playing a squire strat , he said his original guitars were now too valuable To gig . It was a brilliant show, only marred by a few idiots shouting where’s Brian.

I had the pleasure of meeting Andy backstage in Warrington late 2019 in better times ! He was an absolute gentleman. I’ve loved the band since I saw them in a look in annual when I was 5 and finally got to see and meet the band backstage in Leeds shortly after starting work in 1985 ! I now own approximately 95% of their records (only a few unofficial unreleased tracks remain) and they are always in my heart ! Was due to see them last Christmas but covid screwed things up ! Hope to see them soon and love to sweet fans and music fans worldwide x

@redblade8160

3 жыл бұрын

Nick Smart I used to buy Look-in every week (one shilling) when it first came out from 1971 to 1972 (Tony Bastable from Magpie was on the front cover). And I had the Look-in annual (Roger Moore was on the front cover).

I saw Andy with the Sweet in January 2020. It was a great show with all their hits, and a room full of people loved every minute of it. He can still play and hit those very high notes.

hi Andy, do more interviews please

Thanks John, this is brilliant. Great to hear Andy talking about the band and providing some insights to the band.

What a great interview. Thank You and God Bless!!!

I have long loved to listen to Andy Scott play and sing, for decades. Now, I find myself enjoying listening to what he has to say, as well.

Just subscribed as I love all things Sweet. Great first interview tease!!

Hi John, great start with the interview. Looking foreward to the rest. BTW, The Sweet CD's are on their way. Greetz Rob

TX. Are you ready Steve. Got the book.. I use to hang with Steve and Maureen. Glad Andy still rockin.

@michaelschmidt4618

3 жыл бұрын

I still have Steve and Mereens phone number, I talked to her right after I heard that Steve died, I cried for 2 day's when I heard he died, all of my friends are dying off on me

Love The Sweet. Thanks for sharing!!

was lucky enough to see them a few times growing up in england,superb rock band live

I just discovered this band. I've heard the songs but never knew who sung them. Amazing music.

⭐• It's great to see and hear from Andy Scott • Andy and the Music of The Sweet remains relevant still • Absolutely the music means SO much to so many. ⭐ rip Steve • Mick and Brian ⭐

Good Man! They Where Playing on a Tuesday Night opening for Kansas. I got off Work. Had No Car. Ran to Safeway cashed my Check. And Ran 4 Miles. They Just hit the Stage. I pushed my Way through the Crowd. Im Proud to See Them Play. Your Tboughts on their Music. Same. Once ya got pasted Little Willy. Blockbuster!!!!! Love this Interview!!!!

I love this dude. To be still rocking at 71. That's awesome. I'm 59 and still rockin'.

Saw Sweet in Lowestoft the week they released Blockbuster, fantastic band.

@redblade8160

3 жыл бұрын

dickos24 Blockbuster! went straight into the chart at N0 16 first week in January 1973 and second week N0 8, third week N0 2, forth week N0 1 and it stayed at the top spot for five weeks!

Good to see he's going strong

Thanks for posting! I have always liked the hits, but the rock genius of the band really hit me the last few years.

13 parts, oh yeah , thx for the effort, Andy is a great musician, and want to learn more about his life, very energetic man

Great interview

thankyou for a good interview 👌🎶💛🎶

My first experience of a rockconcert was 1976 and The Sweet! It was loud and it was great! I will never forget it! Many years later I had the pleasure of shaking hands with Andy Scott after their Andy Scotts Sweet gig in Stockholm Sweden.Thank you Andy. It was a great gig.

It's just really awesome to hear him say that his Dad was a lovely man, his HERO! We've seen/heard so many big name rock artists speak of how horrible their relationship was with their parents! I've seen a FEW men who said they had a good relationship, but it's SO rare! You wonder if their relationship was honestly that horrible - or.was their story concocted to bolster the image of one of the "BAD BOYS of Rock and Roll"? Glad to know our generation could make good music AND have a good relationship with their parents!.

Thanks for this interview with Andy Scott. It was great to hear him speak about his upbringing as well as speaking from a musician's viewpoint. Though I was a baby when they were in their prime, I was introduced to Sweet's music by a friend of a friend. Being a musician, I found their overall musicianship--including their vocal and instrumental arpeggios--as auditory gold to my ears. My cockatiel(bird)Chipper loves Sweet too--he whistles the first line of the "Little Willy" chorus and then improvises his own melodies. He also starts whistling and singing when he hears their songs, So imagine: Sweet being a musical influence to a bird LOL.

Sweet is still my favorite band! No band is as good as Sweet, thanks for their wonderful music. Thank you Andy for keeping the music alive. Much Love!

We love you Andy. Always nice to meet after Gigs. Always reflects, both serious, yet in positive way.

This is so great. I love this band and I never knew much of anything more than the few hits they had. Recently, in the past couple years, I dove into their catalog and just love them. I could watch The Ballroom Blitz top of the pops video every single day of my life. Great interview and it's amazing that he still going with the band and the only surviving member.

Gran Banda,de las mejores del glam ingles,muy personales teatrales,histrionicos y salvajes,los amo!!!🥁🎹🎸❤🤟

love you Andy, and love lady starlight

Some great songs back in the day..still played today.

When I was 5 I bought my first record: The single of Fox on the Run. I must have played it 20 times in a row when I got home. I've still got it. When I hear The Sweet now it hits me how awesome the drums and guitar work are.

What a lovely intelligent man , great interview, I always thought Sweet were a very underrated band , brilliant 👍

Great Interview!! Can't to the rest!!

Always informative.... thank you.

I used to be in the business as a DJ in the late 70s to late 80s and your interviews are awesome. Also, I just shared to my Facebook page. Rock on!

@RockHistoryMusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Eric...John

i literally jumped when andy came on screen.

I heard the album "Off the record" again the other day. Andy Scott is playing some good guitar pieces on that one. Great stuff , underrated .

Sweet was and is one of my all favourite bands ever! Great music on every song. Sweet!!! Rock and Roll Forever!

They were great, one of my favorites in elementary and middle school.

He's one of the best guitar player I've ever heard. He and the former band along with Brian, Steve and Micl are still the best after The Beatles and The Hollies, but in 70's.

I met Andy on a cruise a couple of years back....fantastic guy, still awesome musician ☺️

The Sweet once sat at my table before their act at a night club . Straight , down to earth they chattered for about 15 mins.Lovely lads , a treasured memory.

Saw Andy and the Sweet in November 2019 at Barrow-in-Furness. It was a great night!

Great group all contributed to the music and vocals .love there latest song “everything “

This was great!!!!

I found a live recording on KZread of Sweet playing Funny Funny live in 1971. No video, but quite cool to hear. And as we know, Windy City can only be played at the highest volume that your ears can handle.

Great channel! New subscriber. Lots to get through. Thanks for the content. Hello from Liverpool U.K

At 17 I waa in the Rhodesian Army either trupping the Zambesi Valley and Eaatern Highlands on patrol or being heli-borne into contact situations. But the music of 70's Sweet like Hellraiser, Teenage Rampage, Fox on the Run and of course The Ballroom Blitz was regularly spinning on the turntable of the base pub during down time at the various Fireforce bases helping to forget the events of the day and psyching one up to meet possible contact with the enemy the next day. Such great melo's still stir my blood to this day.

My favorite member of the band. Man, I hope this gentleman Andy stays with us long enough. R.I.P. the rest of the band :( It's unforgivable what Brian's attacker did. Otherwise, the band would've been more huge in the 80's.

The singles album was the first record i ever bought,it was 1976 i was 10 years old,ive still got it,and love it.

Thanks Andy , I love the sweet forever , great songs , Al big hits , your fan henri put belgium 🇧🇪, have a good day Andy

I wish Andy would realise that he was 25% of The Sweet, a great contributor but not the 'be all and end all'. after Brian parted company it was all over.

Rock on Andy. Hope to see you in London in Dec 2021!