Steve looks like he had more fun than even the audience. Totally living the moment is awesome to watch.

@micheleangelique423

2 жыл бұрын

He always did.

@rubydazzler

2 жыл бұрын

@@micheleangelique423 he got on my nerves always messing about and pulling stupid strokes, we knew you were miming, guys, you didn't to show out! Seems to me looking back only Brian and Mick respected the fans, and took it seriously. Was there ever a drummer to match Mick, in showmanship and flamboyance, and a frontman like Brian, he had it all, looks, voice, charisma. Without those two, the founding members, there was no Sweet.

Steve Priest's 4th wall bit to camera has to be one of the best bits of totp ever

@abfisbfjsjksjfbekw1265

Жыл бұрын

He doesn't break the fourth wall. Wtf are you on. Do you know what that means?

Brilliant rest in peace Brian and mick you are missed the world was robbed of your talent

@paulneeds

3 жыл бұрын

And Steve..

Born in 1958 I was 15 years old at that time and I played that record as a single(!!) over and over again,.... that kind of music thrills me! And still... it's got that magic of the early days..

I love you and your music Andy

I love Andy Scott. He has a true Fans heart. Thanks m8!

This is cool so love to just watch the guys in the early days when they had so much fun especially Steve

This cracked me up, so much bloody fun. Steve is so gorgeous. It’s so surreal seeing Andy sitting with an iPad. They’re incredible😍

Love this with the great humour. R.I.P Brian, Mick and the Gorgeous Steve all greatly missed xxx

Oh Brian...forever in my heart ♥️👍

Sweet Forever! Die Beste Rockband aller Zeiten!! R.I.P Brian Mick und Steve 😥

Great one. I was only 8 in 1973 and this was abolutely my favourite Song at this Time.

That's interesting to know! Thanks, Andy! We love you! Mick & Brian are missed every day. R.I.P. 💜 Blockbuster!

Thanks Andy!! This is by far my favorite video! Nothing like bloopers to make the day complete!! I noticed Mick's jacket is open and then closed again! Both Steve and yourself seemed to always have a good time no matter what else was going on. Glad to see Sweet and get caught up on all the music, even those not released in the states! Cheers!!

Oh i love Sweet!!!!!!!

Thank you ...made me smile..loved you guys you were my 70s

Brilliant,thank you.It feel so good to be a Sweet fan!

The band has the best sense of humor- you can tell! They sure were having a blast! Great!

Thanks Andy for showing us this it was great, I never knew until a few years ago that the bands diden't play live on TOTP, sure wish all 4 of you were still together.

Hi Andy.... Met you and Mick often between 1985 and 2010. I am a friend of Thomas Bies. Great Video. Love Steve "Adolfo" Priest in this Clip. Rock on .....David Andrew Scott. Dee from Stuttgart....

Love it!! Just sat here grinning my face of at this. Steve always stole the show and made me laugh. They always looked like they were having a bloody good time, and by all accounts they were!! The B side of Blockbuster, Need A Lot Of Lovin', was what really made me take notice. Loved 'Buster but played Lovin' to death. As a consequence I became a huge fan and went on to track down the previous singles as it occurred to me that the B sides were better (in most cases) than the A side. Man From Mecca on the back of Little Willy was as heavy as anything you could get in 1972. Bloody amazing band who finally get the kudos they deserve

Gave us all the best teen years ever .... Thanking you! x

Great insight. Thanks Andy for taking the time to make this video explaining things. I still get goose pimples everytime I hear those sirens !!!

you guys had such a unique sound and style

@colinlatham7905

5 жыл бұрын

Not really

Brian was the golden boy, literally..

That was great! I've always loved that you all could just stop and have fun even if it's by mistake... I've seen in a few different videos where one or all of you would cut up... thanks for all the years of great music!

Thank you Andy!

R.I.P Steve gone to join Mick and Brian love you always and forever

Missing from last night's BBC Four outings for the Christmas Day 73 totp - thank goodness you've put it here.

Brilliant! No wonder Brian was always smiling. I wonder if they ever all just got the giggles & couldn't sing & it had to be cut?! Do any more out-takes exist? Love it. A very Happy Christmas to Andy & all watching this channel.

I've no idea why Ive turned up here now, but I guess I never really had anything to say. But I've been listening to Sweet today along with the wife and having a bit reminiscing. After which I guess I just needed to come and say a huge thank you after my wife asked me what got you into heavy metal? I told her this was the first record I ever REALLY paid attention to as a kid. I just loved it so much. My older sisters played music all the time but as a nine or ten year old I just heard their crap and that was it I'd leave and go ride my bike. Music never really stuck with me. Thinking back upon my wife's question, the stuff I liked was the real loud "in your face" stuff, I've no idea why I just loved jumping around going nuts to it. Sweet, Suzi Quattro, Slade, anything that was just screaming loud and different I kinda hooked into. But it was Sweet that really got me buying records as a ten year old. I'm 56 years old now, and I've been a metalhead for the last 46 years (utter lifetime AC/DC fanatic). I still love going to gigs more than anything else ever. I still play my vinyl on my Pioneer separates stack system. It's true what they say, once a metalhead always a metalhead. I still hold today decades later, that teenage rampage and action are priceless and timeless belters amongst many more I could mention. I play them still and I still and I still jump around like a ten year old lunatic albeit with maybe a bit more restraint these days, but when you really feel something it's impossible not too really. So I guess I'm really just here to say a massive MASSIVE thank you to the Sweet... past, present and future, for hooking me into rock (hell yes, I don't care what debates are out there, make no mistake these boys are hard rock not pop), thank you for making me pay attention, go nuts, jump around, buy your records and lead me down the long long path into the heavy metal music and people I call family today, some 46 years later. You are inimitable!! There is nobody like you, and there never will be. So I thank you The Sweet, from the bottom of my heart, for the lifetime of happiness you and your extraordinary music has afforded me unto this day, and until the day I take my last breath. Long may you live!! And my sincere condolences to the remaining families of the fallen, yet never forgotten. I believe it was Suzi Quattro who once said "There will always be that one kid out there who doesn't want mainstream music and just wants to rock their brains out instead" That kid was me. The band was you. And there's still a helluva lot more kids out there. Keep rockin!!

Happy times when Sweet were in optimistic mood and also featuring a typically classic Connolly performance where Brian breaks the mic stand over his knee !

@helenb6399

9 жыл бұрын

He often did that didn't he! They can't have been very strong can they - I wonder if Sweet ever had to pay for replacements?! At 3.42 Bri is looking at the mic stand & it looks like it's been taped back together!

@TheHumbuckerboy

9 жыл бұрын

Helen the raver I think that I remember reading at the time that these were specially designed stands made for the specific purpose of breaking with ease . Good observation concerning the condition of the stand at 3.42. Brian " the best frontman to grace the TOTPs stage" Connolly seems to find the situation amusing here (LOL)!

I'm glad. to see your still playing sweet were one of my favourite bands in the seventies xx

Brilliantly done

Ich kaNN nicht'S anderes sagen ausser ich liebe Sweet❤ bin Jahrgang 1964, wir hatten die geilste Discozeit die es je gab!❤ dolle drück und alles gute für euch alle ❤

It was fun to get the lowdown on this shoot. Personally , I like when bands get things like that under the radar . This is the same version that was on the "Glam Rock" video , and , apart from "The Third Leg' , there's the bit with Steve's "mustache", which is painted on , disappearing before the end. Not being English , I did'nt grow up with "Top of The Pops" , but , of the clips I had seen , I could tell the bands were lip - synching , but , that was still par for the course. I It was a great time to be a visual act , and color TV was becoming more the norm , so , shows like TOTP were a great vehicle for Sweet's act. merry christmas , everybody !!!!!!!!!

The Sweet Forever !!

Fabulous! Thank Andy.

glad to see your doing these again Andy I love watching them xx

This has made my day!! Thank you very much for posting it.

I love Sweet and this is one of my favorite songs of theirs. Love it. Fun video too. They always looked like they had a good time and that’s what it’s all about. ❤️💜💚

Noticed Andy is on Steve's side and Steve is on Andy's side. Love Sweet.

Andy... Your a nut!! I still love all y'all's songs/video!!! When y'all coming back to states like to Houston TX please? The Sweet still rox!! 👍😁😎💖🎸🐯😘

@MsTstang

6 жыл бұрын

ANDY WONT EVER BE IN THE STATES ..Unless he patches things with Steve ...So Sad they may not have another chance ...

@sweetpurple8812

3 жыл бұрын

@@MsTstang well steves dead now, rip

Very good rock bands and music. Relaxing. Thank you very much. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Best rollerskating band ever

Intro to one of the finest pieces of music of all time Everything brought together in perfect Harmony and Rythem Blockbuster still makes feet tap 40 Odd years later.. 'but the music could stand on its own They Really Don't make them like that today ..

Das waren unsere Sweet!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Aber jetzt die Sweet mit 3 neuen Bandmitgliedern und noch der echte Andy von den Sweet, die Band gefällt mir jetzt nicht mehr. Die anderen 3 die gestorben sind,kann keiner ersetzen! Die echten Sweet waren die besten und geilsten,aller Zeiten! Sowas wird es nie wieder geben!

Thanks Andy and band so much I loved the clip the sweet are my favorioute band keep doing videos I love watching them and I love song of the month I learned how to play hellraiser on guitar from that :D

steve in full glam with ww1 german helmet Hitler moustache red lipstick camping it up. what prime time show could they get on today.. brilliant..

@mbrady2329

3 жыл бұрын

None - they've even had to blur him from certain angles on KZread!

Rip Steve , Brian, Mick . Thank's Andy

Great vid! I'd never seen the mistakes before 🔥

Awesome. Thank u for sharing.!

Thank goodness we still have Andy and Steve to give us all these funny and fascinating tidbits we would never know otherwise. Rock on!

@heraldeventsandfilms5970

4 жыл бұрын

Steve gone now. A sad day.

@Jae..9..

4 жыл бұрын

Herald Events and Films I know it’s devastating. Rest in Piece Steve.

@heraldeventsandfilms5970

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jae..9.. He didn't go too young like his bandmates but it's still sad.

@Jae..9..

4 жыл бұрын

Herald Events and Films I agree. Condolences to his family.

Thank you Andy for sharing that precious piece.

More of these please...😂

most excellent. I'd never noticed the trousers before.

andy love it wish we could all go bck

Great stuff Andy....Legends! 👏🏻👍🏻

After WigWamBam, boys desided, time is now for heavier sound singles. And we got what we (audience) deserved, multi million Hit, Blockbuster. Went number 1 # in January 1973.

@johnnyfever3832

2 жыл бұрын

Great song. Thought it borrowed a few ideas from “Jean Genie” though …

@markfernandes9715

2 жыл бұрын

Followed by four excellent singles that stalled at number two. Ballroom Blitz and Fox On The Run were their best

Christ that guy on bass is hot, and I'm straight

@SuperPussyFinger

5 жыл бұрын

Chris m - Of course you are.

@izitsomojo

4 жыл бұрын

Obviously, no you are not!

@nickmeekers7624

3 жыл бұрын

Man, same. If thinking Steve Priest is hot, is gay, then I don't wanna be straight..

@SweetLep1961

3 жыл бұрын

That’s beautiful gorgeous sexy Stevie Priest

SWEET!!!

The dodgy graphic at the end of the song... classic!!

you MADE top of the pops xxx

I love the guitars and bass un this song

I’ve been in love with 335s ever since I first saw you with that one Andy... 60 now, still not owned one. Have a nice 339 (no bigsby) though...

You've took me back to when I was twelve!!! You bastard!! :-)

you're great amigos!!

Such an awesome clip, loved it.

Larga vida Andy. You are living Rock for ever.

That's pretty funny..... great stuff Andy

Brilliant thankyou.

Hilarious..that what kept the audience focus..they r so charismatic each of them in their own way..love you Andy keep sweet alive.

Sweet...

hey, uncle Andy if you reading this hope your well.

Steve Priest, an antic, LOve it

The audience looks absolutely riveted to be there.

@markfernandes9715

2 жыл бұрын

The entire episode of Christmas 1973 TOTP is the best ever.

I really like this. Funny.

I'm sure I've got this on something, somewhere with Steve's armband in full view!

Thanks Andy ..But I wish you would seriously think about working it out (or at least set it aside ) with Steve this is Sweet 50th year ......You may not have anther chance ....

@bertmaanders6679

6 жыл бұрын

+Jan Meyers FYI,Andy tried to make contact with Steve!!;Andy contacted Steve to play together at the 50th anniversary Open Air Show on 9/6-2018 in Berlin,but Steve didn`t even respond!! German Good Times magazine (June/July 2018) has (separate) interviews with Andy & Steve in which Steve claims Andy is nòt an original member as he joined Sweet in 1970,not 1968 when the band was formed... Steve also claims he is the last surviving member from the original band!! Bit of a weird statement from Steve as the Sweet`s succes started when Andy joined!! Andy even provided Sweet with a great ballad on the flip of `Funny,Funny`. As a matter of fact Andy was/is the real creative mind behind Sweet`s worlwide succes,most ideas for songs,etc. came from Andy. Songs Steve plays to this very day with his SweetBand. It`s Steve that blew the chance..... Goed te horen dat er nog Nederlandse (Belgische?? ) Sweet fans zijn!! Jan,STAY SWEET!!

@WendywdjnyJ

5 жыл бұрын

@@bertmaanders6679 are you sure? I think Steve was one of the originals with Brian and the original guitarist and that person left and Andy joined so Steve is correct about that

@lepoetress

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly, they won't get to play together with Steve's passing (6/4/20), but I read an article that said they reconciled in 2010.

Hi Andy. Paul Rogers from oz . When you guys coming down to oz again. Hugely missed. 2014 melb was a long time ago plus that pacific cruise

a song about needing directions to the video store

☺ oh, o.k. andy! @ 3:50, i thought you had kicked your leg up in the air [@ first], 'til i saw it hanging! x^) .... what's the story? just for fun, or why were you using the "jake the peg" leg? 😀

the complete 1973 christmas totp was shown on christmas eve shame they had to cut out blockbuster when they could have edited out Jimmy Osmond singing "long haired lover from liverpool" ! i still have a copy of this episode from when it was shown on bbc2 1n 1991 originaly on vhs but i transferred to dvd so the quality is a bit ropey which i why i was glad it was shown again understandably Gary Glitter singing "leader of the gang" and other references to him had been removed , other changes were tony blackburn's link before "eye level" and noel edmonds' link after it being shown in full when they were reduced on the '91 showing, the full version of "eye level" was shown this time after the beginning was cut off in '91 also slade's "merry xmas everybody" was shown in full after being cut short Apparantly Roy Wood gave Noddy the custard pie he had in his face at the end of the song, for some reason on both showings the second verse of wizzard's "see my baby jive" were cut out (timing?) as were two lines of "rubber bullets" by 10cc the lines were "we've all got balls and brains,some have balls and chains (language perhaps?) .

Andy sieht aus, als hätte er Brian aufgegessen und im Clip haben ein paar ganz arme Lichter die Hakenkreuzbinde von Steve unkenntlich gemacht, wie arm. Das lief Anfang der 70er noch unzensiert...

This is the version I had on a old VHS tape called "Glam rock" I watched it over at Steve Jones' house years ago and when he saw Steve Priest wearing the German officer uniform he said "Brilliant" ...a Sex Pistol calling the Sweet brilliant... it was FN brilliant ! 😀

Stevie's German Helmet!!!! Hhahaha He was a card!

Notice they blurred out parts of Steve’s costume?

@sveinsigurdgismarvik4445

3 жыл бұрын

Steve had some nazi stuff they left out.

At 2:25 there seems to be someone on the right of frame shooting with a shoulder mounted film camera. Does that film exist anywhere?

Hi Got a question ..is there still a copy of the Top Of The pop song with both you and Steve in Indian gear ????

@rhig4081

5 жыл бұрын

Jan Meyers Wig Wam Bam?

i love the way Steve poked fun at the nazis' :)

Andy, what are you playing for a guitar here? Looks like a Les Paul jr. but with 24 frets??

I love the sweet.

great

Andy Scott wish you had been more sympathetic towards Brian Rip sweet Brian xxx 💝

The crowd are a bunch of store mannequins. Getting sweet to record a clip in a fitzroyhotel in melbourne and they would have seen real crowd. No.phone to record it on a big plus. Sweet were one of the best and still love their music

Andy, how the fuck did you get that clean crunch from a hollow body without massive feedback?

Those errors were fun to watch.

was the sweet ever on old grey whistle test?

I also want a Marshall amp in my living room. 😀😀😀

Not having ever been interested enough in music to know anything about any instrument... what is a bass and how is a guiter different from a bass... when are you actually playing and when are you pretending to play... And when is the microphone on and when is it off? I never saw these "little things" that Andy spoke of at the start of this video. I just know that if there are any payments that follow my watching the video it will go to the Official Sweet Channel as it should.