Sweet – Healer
Music Legend The Mystic Heart of Hard Rock: When the Sweet Searched for Salvation in Sound To truly appreciate “Healer,” you must first understand the ground the band Sweet stood on in…
Sweet – Air On ‘A’ Tape Loop
The Ghost in the Machine: When Glam Rock’s Heaviest Band Went Abstract If you were a fan of Sweet in the 1970s, you knew them as the architects of stadium-sized…
Sweet – Reach Out I’ll Be There
Sweet’s explosive, hard-rocking cover turns a Motown classic into a massive, unforgettable stadium anthem. Oh, the mid-1970s. The decade was a kaleidoscope of sound and fashion, and few bands embodied…
Sweet – She Gimme Lovin’
When Glam Rock Got Gritty: The Heart-Pounding, Unvarnished Soul of the Sweet Ah, The Sweet. Say the name, and for many, a torrent of glittery, teenage-scream anthems immediately comes to…
Sweet – White Mice
When Glam Rock Got Heavy: The Existential Panic of a Band Fighting for Freedom Ah, the mid-seventies. For the real aficionados of rock history, that era represents a pivotal, fascinating…
Sweet – Spotlight
Glam Rock’s Hard-Edged Statement of Self-Determination For those of us who lived through the glorious, glitter-and-decibel explosion of 1970s Glam Rock, the band Sweet will forever occupy a unique and…
Sweet – Lettres D’Amour
When Glam Rock Went Gallic: The Sweet’s Lush, Unexpected Ballad To those of us who came of age in the 1970s, the name The Sweet conjures up a glorious cacophony…
Sweet – Windy City
From Glitter Glam to Gritty Hard Rock: The Sweet’s Ode to Urban Desperation For many of us, the name Sweet (or The Sweet, as they were often billed) conjures up…
Sweet – Need a Lot of Lovin
The Riff That Roared: The Sweet’s True Hard Rock Heart In the early 1970s, the name Sweet was synonymous with glitter, platform boots, and some of the most undeniably catchy…
Sweet – Honeysuckle Love
Sweet’s “Honeysuckle Love”: A Forgotten Gem of Psychedelic Softness In an era defined by glitter, glam rock, and thunderous power chords, the British band Sweet carved out a unique and…