OFF: Sweet drummer dies

[Alasdair Macdonald]

Their Live + studio album "Strung Up" is one of THE great live albums. I don't
believe this is available on CD (in fact it's tough to find on vinyl).

Alasdair

On 19 Feb 2002 at 11:50, M Holmes wrote:

> Doug Pearson writes:
>
> > That's too bad.  Mick Tucker was a talented guy - a powerful drummer
> > who could simultaneously vocalise in the band's four-part harmonies
> > (he wrote many of their lyrics once they started writing their own
> > songs).  He was also responsible for some cool psychedelic
> > production on songs like "I wanna be committed" and "Into the night"
> > - vocoders and backwards gongs and the like.  Talk about a band that
> > had bad luck after their bout with fame (lead singer Brian Connoly
> > died a few years ago of some sort of post- massive-stroke(s) trauma)
> > ...
>
> Liver failure got him in the end didn't it? I saw a TV reprise of Glam
> Rock with him interviewed, and he looked at death's door. He died
> during produ7ction of the show.
>
> I was a Sweet fan as a nipper though. What wopuld be the best albums
> to get for:
>
> A) The hits from Alexander Graham Bell through Fox on the Run and
>
> B) The stuff they wrote.
>
> FoFP
>
> P.S: I also have a komplete Chicory Tip kollection ;-)
>