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Malcolm Dome

“They’d often taken leaps into more powerful, aggressive album tracks at odds with their hit singles. Then they went even further”: When a 70s bubblegum pop quartet surprised fans by releasing a prog album

The Sweet pose around a mixing desk ina rehearsal room, United Kingdom, 1978. L-R Steve Priest, Mick Tucker, Andy Scott, Brian Connolly. (Photo by Dick Barnatt/Redferns).

In 2018 Prog argued that glam pop giants Sweet had signalled their intention to become something much more experimental with the release of 1978 album Level Headed, which owed more to 10cc and Supertramp than their previous output. We can only imagine what might have followed if the line-up had staye together.

Sweet, eh? The acknowledged masters of 70s bubblegum pop rock. But on their sixth album, the band were shifting into musical areas which had perhaps been regarded as off limits to them before.

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