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Sweet - Blockbuster
Related Lessons
lesson:
Introducing Glam Rock
Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: General Music
How was Glam Rock a reaction to the "seriousness" of popular music at the time?
Related People
people:
Sweet
The Sweet (later just Sweet) were among the most popular (and Pop-oriented) purveyors of 1970s Glam Rock, racking up a string of hit singles in their native U.K. and beyond. The origins of Sweet go back to 1967, when core members got together as the Sweetshop and began attracting fans on the London pub circuit. Their sound initially was in the Bubblegum Pop vein of acts like the Archies and the Monkees, but the band began to toughen it with a Hard Rock edge, inspired in part by the Who. Their popularity grew steadily throughout Europe, especially in the U.K., where...