OFF: Ballroom Blitz

[ANDREW GARIBALDI]

so it was YOU was it - bet you've also got 'Me and You and a dog named Boo'
by Lobo and 'Hanging ON By A Thread' by Farquahr (oh no - that's me - sorry
about that).
Andy Garibaldi (revealing pop streak)
----- Original Message -----
From: "M Holmes" <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: Ballroom Blitz


> William Duffy writes:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Blockbuster by the Sweet was the first single I ever bought. I was a big
> Sweet (and Chicory Tip :-) fan as a kid. In fact somewhere I have a
> komplete Chicory Tip kollection.
>
> > William
>
> FoFP