OFF: Ballroom Blitz

[Doug Pearson]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:20:46 -0400, Eric Siegerman <erics at TELEPRES.COM>
wrote:
>> And (to tie in with
>> that other thread again) don't forget that their Chinn/Chapman-penned
>> hit "Blockbuster" WAS lifted directly from one of the other big glam hits
>> of the day (by a guy who lifted every stage of HIS career from other
>> artists, so plagarism isn't a fair accusation here).
>
>Do tell!  I love that song -- and the rest of the Ch**2 stuff, up
>until that Aguetha Faltskog (sp?) album kind of blew it for me.

"Jean Jeanie"!  Same rhythm guitar riff, at least.  Yeah, I loves that Ch^2
stuff, too ... (and gotta give Phil Wainman, who hooked up Ch^2 & the
Sweet, and produced the Yardbirds 'Little Games' a few years prior, credit
for being a great svengali-on-a-budget).

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com