Only three months to "O" Levels!
Your humble author in '73
1973 in Halesowen
Tony
Blackburn, the up until now crusader and defender of the Sweet, gives Ballroom
Blitz the thumbs down on Rosco's Roundtable
I'd just gone on shift at the Murco garage
opposite the Husky Dog and Pete Beddard was smoothing
down his grey jacket in the hope of flogging an old Ford Popular to an even
older punter. I was putting out fresh water for cleaning windscreens when I
heard it for the first time. The radio in the red M.G. was keeping the
forecourt company and Rosco hadn't long kicked off
the week's Roundtable. We were due for a SWEET release, but the sound that hit
us was about to become the stuff of legend. BALLROOM BLITZ chugger
chuggered it's way into the hearts and spinal columns
of all that heard it. It made Blockbuster sound a little sedate by comparison
and Tony Blackburn slated it for pandering to violence. He was just lucky he
didn't stop off for petrol that night - he'd have left in a Ford Popular.
Alright
Fellas..... Let's GOOOoooooooo
Sweet Live 1973 (CD Cover)