Reelin’ in the Years 174: Burning – RIP Steve Priest
Posted in 1970s, Events dear boy. Events, Music, Reelin' In The Years, The Sweet at 20:30 on 5 June 2020
So, farewell then, Steve Priest, bass guitarist with The Sweet.
On one of the band’s Top of the Pops performances Steve managed to outrage my father with his make-up and pouting to the camera. I just thought all of that was an in-joke, a very muted kind of rebellion.
I’ve already featured what I think of as the band’s good hits; the ones that weren’t mere bubblegum fluff.
The Sweet’s B-sides were their attempt to show that they were serious musicians. Some see them as forerunners of and influences on later heavy metal bands. At the time most of my acquiantances thought they were maybe trying a bit too hard.
On this one (the B-side of Hell Raiser) it sounds like they were trying to channel Led Zeppelin, specifically The Immigrant Song.
The Sweet: Burning
Stephen Norman (Steve) Priest, 23/2/1948 – 4/6/2020. So it goes.
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