OFF: Ballroom Blitz

[M Holmes]

William Duffy writes:

> > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:20:46 -0400, Eric Siegerman <erics at TELEPRES.COM>
> > wrote:
> > >> And (to tie in with
> > >> that other thread again) don't forget that their Chinn/Chapman-penned
> > >> hit "Blockbuster" WAS lifted directly from one of the other big glam
> hits
> > >> of the day (by a guy who lifted every stage of HIS career from other
> > >> artists, so plagarism isn't a fair accusation here).
> > >
> > >Do tell!  I love that song -- and the rest of the Ch**2 stuff, up
> > >until that Aguetha Faltskog (sp?) album kind of blew it for me.
> >
> > "Jean Jeanie"!  Same rhythm guitar riff, at least.  Yeah, I loves that
> Ch^2
> > stuff, too ... (and gotta give Phil Wainman, who hooked up Ch^2 & the
> > Sweet, and produced the Yardbirds 'Little Games' a few years prior, credit
> > for being a great svengali-on-a-budget).
> >
>
> Andy Scott (The Sweet's guitarist) said in an interview that when the song
> made it into the charts the same week as the Bowie song, he was surprised
> that nobody picked up the similarity.

Blockbuster by the Sweet was the first single I ever bought. I was a big
Sweet (and Chicory Tip :-) fan as a kid. In fact somewhere I have a
komplete Chicory Tip kollection.

> William

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