OFF: Sweet drummer dies

[Doug Pearson]

That's too bad.  Mick Tucker was a talented guy - a powerful drummer who
could simultaneously vocalise in the band's four-part harmonies (he wrote
many of their lyrics once they started writing their own songs).  He was
also responsible for some cool psychedelic production on songs like "I
wanna be committed" and "Into the night" - vocoders and backwards gongs and
the like.  Talk about a band that had bad luck after their bout with fame
(lead singer Brian Connoly died a few years ago of some sort of post-
massive-stroke(s) trauma) ...

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 22:51:27 +0800, William Duffy <xl5 at IINET.NET.AU> wrote:
>Here's some sad news for anyone out there who are fans of The Sweet. The
>following info comes via a Sweet web site.
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>William
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>I have the sad news to bring that today, Thursday February 14th 2002, Mick
>Tucker, drummer with the 70's glam rock
>supergroup - Sweet, passed away in hospital at 11.35am this morning...