OFF: Ballroom Blitz

[William Duffy]

> 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).
>

Andy Scott (The Sweet's guitarist) said in an interview that when the song
made it into the charts the same week as the Bowie song, he was surprised
that nobody picked up the similarity.

William