The group's initial years were characterized by bubblegum songs that they were only allowed to sing on, with heavier self-penned rock songs as the b-sides. They achieved their first hit in 1970 with the release of Funny Funny. In the following months, Sweet released "Co-Co" and Poppa Joe, both achieving huge success in the charts. In 1971 they released the album "Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be", which consisted mostly of songs written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman.
Sweet's success continued with more glam rock and power pop oriented tunes, such as "Little Willy", "Wig Wam Bam", Hellraiser and Ballroom Blitz. By this time Sweet had a world-wide following, clocking up no less than 18 top 20 hit singles, and the guys were most notably popular in Germany and the U.K.
The group's members are perhaps best remembered for their very 'glam' outfits, featuring a lot of glitter, platform boots, chain mail shirts, and plenty of makeup. The group practically defining the camp extreme of the glam rock look, Steve Priest would later say it was very short-lived and only happened by accident, as some sort of ongoing rivalry between them and artists such as David Bowie and T. Rex. Everyone tried to outdo each other’s ridiculousness on Top Of The Pops. Sweet’s glam rock era lasted from 1972 to 1973.
In 1974, Sweet released Teenage Rampage, The Six Teens and Turn It Down, showing their desire to take a more hard rock direction. By this time tensions between the band and the songwriters and producer started to grow. The guys also pushed for more songwriting control, which increased tensions between them, the songwriters and producer.
In 1975, Sweet wrote, recorded and produced the smash hit Fox on the Run on their own, essentially severing ties with Chinn and Chapman. Following the song’s success, they released the acclaimed track Action. Their momentum went on, the band embarking their first U.S. tour.
After their recent success, Sweet released the “Give Us A Wink” album in 1976, which was notably heavy. It contained the single The Lies In Your Eyes, which achieved moderate success. A year later, in 1977, they released the album “Off The Record”, but singles such as Fever Of Love and Lost Angels failed to gain traction, partly due to bad marketing from their label. Despite this, the band continued to distance themselves from their earlier commercial ventures.
Sweet’s career was revitalized with the release of Love Is Like Oxygen in 1978. By this time Connolly had developed a drinking problem and started to be increasingly unreliable during recording sessions. Following a disastrous U.S. tour, he left the band officially in early 1979. The band continued on as a three piece band for three more years, releasing “Cut Above The Rest”, “Waters Edge”, and “Identity Crisis”. Priest took over most of the lead vocals until Sweet’s disbandment in 1981.
In 1985, Andy Scott and Mick Tucker re-formed Sweet with various new vocalists and bass players, the most notable being a 1986 reunion featuring Paul Mario Day (the first singer of Iron Maiden), keyboardist Phil Lanzon, and bass player Malcolm McNulty (who is now lead singer for fellow glam rock band Slade). Steve Priest was asked to join Tucker and Scott for the 1985 Australian tour, but declined at the last moment. Vocalist and bass player Jeff Brown joined in 1988. In 1991, Mick Tucker departed due to ill health, leaving Andy Scott as the only original member. He was replaced by German Bodo Schopf, and subsequently, Bruce Bisland. After Tucker's departure, Andy Scott changed the band's name to 'Andy Scott's Sweet'.
During this time, Brian Connolly, now in bad health, also performed with his version of Sweet. In 1981, he suffered multiple cardiac arrests, which permanently affected his health. He died on 9 February 1997, aged 51. He was cremated after a ceremony at Most Holy Name Roman Catholic Church at Old Mill Lane, Denham, Buckinghamshire and his ashes were scattered over the water by his adult daughters Nicola and Michelle. He also left an ex-wife, Marilyn, and a two-year-old son called Brian Junior (BJ) by his girlfriend Jean.
Michael Thomas (Mick) Tucker died 14 February 2002 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire from leukemia, aged 54; his funeral took place 25 February 2002. He is buried in an unnamed grave in Chorleywood House cemetery. It is marked by a sleeping angel. A wooden bench with a brass plaque funded by fans as a dedication to Mick is also positioned in the grave's vicinity.[2] He left behind a widow, Jan, and a daughter Ayston from his first marriage to Pauline (†1979). According to Steve Priest: "He was the most underrated drummer that ever came out of England. He was the powerhouse of the band. He was technically marvellous. His timing was impeccable, but he had a lot of soul as well and he really felt what he was playing."
In 1994, Steve Priest published his autobiography “Are You Ready Steve?”, which was a raw expose of his time with Sweet and pre-Sweet. In 2006 he released Priest's Precious Poems, a CD of tracks largely consisting of his more recent material. In 2008, he came out of retirement to form his own version of Sweet, based in the US. A year later this band released a live CD called Live In America. In March 2020, he was admitted to a hospital in L.A. After battling pneumonia for a few months, he died on June 4th 2020 at the age of 72.
Andy Scott currently continues to tour with Sweet. In 2002, Sweet released a new album called Sweetlife. February 2006 saw the release of a new Suzi Quatro album, Back To The Drive, which was produced by Scott. In March 2012, Scott released a covers album called New York Connection. Scott teamed up with Suzi Quatro and Don Powell to release a CD called Quatro, Scott and Powell in 2017. Scott has continued to produce for bands throughout the years, currently being the producer for Novatines.
In recent years, Sweet's popularity has surged again. The song Ballroom Blitz was featured in 2016's Suicide Squad, while Fox on the Run was featured in the trailer for 2017's Guardians of the Galaxy 2.
Everything
Sweet Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴
Is like a world without the sky above
Like a rose needs the sun and the rain
I need your love time and time again
You are everything, everything I ever wanted
You are everything, but in a world without your love
It means nothing, yeah
Without you I'm a poor rich man
Shine your light angel from above
Spread your wings fill my world with love
You are everything, everything I ever wanted
You are everything, but in a world without your love
It means nothing
You are everything, everything I need
You are everything, but in a world without your love
It means nothing, yeah
The lyrics to Sweet's "Everything" describe the incompleteness and emptiness felt by the singer without the love of their significant other. The comparison to a world without the sky makes it clear that the love is integral to the singer's existence. Just as a rose needs both the sun and the rain to thrive, the singer needs love, time and time again. The lyrics go on to describe how the love of the other person makes everything in the singer's life complete - without them, the singer feels like a poor rich man, someone who has everything but is missing the most important thing. The singer begs the angel from above, their significant other, to fill their world with love and make everything worth living for.
The repetition of the phrase "you are everything" serves to reinforce the importance of the significant other's love to the singer. In a world without this love, everything means nothing to the singer. This song is a powerful declaration of love and dependency, with the singer painting a picture of a bleak and empty world without the love of their significant other.
Line by Line Meaning
Life, life without your love
Living without your love is a life without meaning
Is like a world without the sky above
Feels like living without your love is like living without something so fundamental like the sky
Like a rose needs the sun and the rain
Just like how a rose needs sun and rain to survive, I need your love in my life to thrive
I need your love time and time again
I always need your love, it's something that keeps me going
You are everything, everything I ever wanted
You mean everything to me and fulfill all my desires
You are everything, but in a world without your love
Your love is so important to me that without it, everything else has no meaning
It means nothing, yeah
Without your love, everything else is meaningless
Gold, held it in my hand
Even if I had gold in my hand, without your love it's worthless
Without you I'm a poor rich man
I may have wealth, but without your love I'm still poor in spirit
Shine your light angel from above
I look up to you like an angel, please bring your light and love into my life
Spread your wings fill my world with love
Open up and show me all the love you have to offer, so that my world can be filled with it
You are everything, everything I need
I need you more than anything else, you are my everything
It means nothing, yeah
Without your love, everything else in my life is meaningless
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Songtrust Ave
Written by: PAUL JEFFERSON JAQUA, DENNY SCOTT, KENNY SCOTT, HOWARD JONES
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Eg fried
This song litterally blows me away. It is fantastic brilliant. Sincere congratulations !
Andy Scott is a talented musician since the late sixties. A true living legend. The original line up of Sweet existed till 1979 when their blond hair leadsinger Brian lwentnhis own ways. Andy, Steve and Mick continued making great - but underrated - records ( clearly underrated) till the early 80’s. After a short solo intermezzo of Andy ( Krugerrand), Andy reformed the band in 1985. Steve decided at the last moment to stay in the US and so only Mick and Andy hit the road again. Mick Tucker became ill a couple of years later and left the band ( and unfortunatly passed away as well)
Andy now being in charge. Band members staying sometimes shorter or longer, only drummer Bruce Bisland has more than 30 years on the record Sweet. Bruce did some gigs for The Sweet as a stand-in during 1991 before joining the band proper for the ʻAʼ Tour in 1992. Great drummer !
Sweet always enjoyed a great popularity in Germany. Some German influence was noticed via Michael Mann for the record A, where a difference was felt as this 1992 album brought lots of powerfull new songs such as “Is it true”, “Natural”, “Mind” . Powerfull new material, showing how the band evolved into new heights. Enjoyable music.
10 years later, the “Sweetlife” CD was released, which sounded as the farewell record of Andy and co listening to songds I’ll do it all over again. The song “Everything” comes originally from this “Sweetlife”album of 2002. I remember I loved this song a lot, but there was however something wrong with the tone ( a bit false).
Now, 20 years later, Andy has again a highly talented team of artists around him with the current lineup of Sweet. Working often from his homestudio at his Cannings Cross Barn in Devizes, Andy started rerecording in Corona times some of the songs the Sweet produced in 1992 and 2002. Isolation Boulevard was the first result of this work. Andy proves again to be a perfectionist in these rerecordings.
The song “Everything” which Sweet released today is a clearly better and more powerfull recording than the original of 2002. This song comes with classic sounding vocals on the chorus, simply brilliant.
No more false tunes and so powerfull. Paul Manzi and Lee Small prove to be great singers - the 2021 lineup of The Sweet is a “Grand Cru”
The picture of Andy on the cover is very funny, I like it.He proved once again to be a great artist, and musician. Sincere congratulations. I just hope that Andy and his band Sweet will perform live again and bringing these re recorded songs live in Europe. They resume touring in the UK this fall, hopefully we get to hear Everything 2021 also in Europe.
Congratulations with all the good and innovative work Andy Scott is still doing in 2021. We love it
Also congrats to drummer Bruce Bisland, who’s since more than 30 years with the band, hereby Sweet’s longest serving drummer. I once had the opportunity to drink a beer with him after a gig, he’s a great bloke. Great team.
I hope this “Everything 2021” single will be released on CD - eventually in a long version. That would be super cool.
Vladimir Evstratov
Вот он,настоящий глэм-рок! Актуально и вечно!
Владимир Тимофеев
Офигенный вокал! Вновь открыл для себя Sweet!😊👍🇷🇺
Lori McLean
I was a teenager in the 70s. I loved everything about sweet. Miss the past Brian, Mick, and Steve. But Andy is still rocking out. Sounds great. I'm Still a sweet fan. 😋 thanks Andy for being you. I've enjoyed listening to your interviews. You're so talented. Thanks for posting on YouTube and keeping Sweet alive, memories and all.
Uzurpon
I'm amazed that Andy still can deliver that high-pitched voice.
Kim Dawes
And his guitar solo! Still got it!
Tory Brown
WOW!!! GREAT SONG!!! I LOVE IT!!! I really like the singers voice....he's AMAZING!!!
Александр Банаравд
Отличная песня! Долгих лет Энди!
саня рулёв
Как Сладкие тронули своей музыкой мою душу когда я был подростком так до сих пор не дают повода усомниться что это великолепная группа!Долгих творческих лет Энди!
Maria Candelaria Núñez Herrera
👏👏👏👏👏♥️
Nik tu
Так и есть.. С тех лет.. Прослушал по новой.. По прежнему актуально. И трогает душу..