Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz (Official Video)

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Channel: SweetVEVO

Views: 56,385,791

Rating: 4.8540606 out of 5

Keywords: Sweet, Andy Scott, Ballroom Blitz, Glam, Fox On The Run, Love Is Like Oxygen, sweet the ballroom blitz, sweet vevo

Id: ewFBuYHldeY

Length: 4min 0sec (240 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 30 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/fartbert]

Great, now I have a hankering to watch Wayne's World.

[u/Carver48]

Are you ready, Steve?!

[u/homelessgranddad]

God, I actually remember this one, yikes.

[u/IntellegentIdiot]

I heard this song years ago and completely forgot it until accidentally rediscovering it a few years ago. It seems to be mostly forgotten just like The Sweet who had 15 top 40 (UK) singles in the 70's.

Writers Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman went on write other hits that are probably better known today:
Tiger Feet and Lonley This Christmas by Mudd
Living Next Door To Alice by Smokie
Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman: "Stumblin' In"
Mickey by Toni Basil
Better Be Good to Me by Tina Turner

Chapman also co-wrote Love Is a Battlefield (Pat Benitar) and The Best (Tina Turner) with Holly Knight. (source:Wikipedia)

[u/superTwist]

What an amazing piece of work this is, it pushed so many boundaries - technical, aesthetic, social to name but a few - back in the early 70s. Mike Chapman is an absolute genius.

[u/Cold_Mountains]

I just had a flashback to Regular Show when I read the title

[u/UraniumRocker]

I first heard this song back in my Napster days when it was mislabeled as a Misfits song

[u/hawkymoo]

Damn this reminds me of Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the 80s

[u/something_python]

This song is about a venue in my home town. The Grand Hall in Kilmarnock. Sweet played a gig there and got the standard Killie welcome (bottles etc)

My dad always claimed to be the man at the back who said everyone attack. But knowing what a night out in Killie is like, there was probably more than one.