ballroom blitz: live in berlin 1976

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In some ways, the Sweet epitomized all the tacky
hubris and garish silliness of the early '70s.

Fusing bubblegum melodies with crunching, fuzzy guitars,
the band looked like a heavy metal band, but were as
tame as any pop group.

It was a dichotomy that served them well, as they
racked up a number of hits in both the U.K. and the U.S.

Most of those songs were written by Nicky Chinn and
Mike Chapman, a pair of British songwriters who had
a way with silly, simple, and catchy hooks.

Chinn/Chapman and Sweet were smart enough to latch on
to the British glam rock fad, building a safer,
radio-friendly, and teen-oriented version of Queen,
T. Rex, and Gary Glitter. By the end of the '70s,
the group's time at the top of the charts had expired
but their hit singles lived on not only as cultural
artifacts, but also as the predecessors for the
pop-metal of the '80s.