Blockbuster!
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| "Blockbuster!" | ||
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| Single by Sweet | ||
| B-side(s) | "Need a Lot of Lovin'" | |
| Released | January 1973 | |
| Recorded | 1972 | |
| Genre | Glam rock | |
| Length | 3:13 | |
| Label | RCA Records | |
| Writer(s) | Nicky Chinn Mike Chapman |
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| Producer(s) | Phil Wainman | |
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"Blockbuster!" is a popular song by Sweet.
Written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, and produced by Phil Wainman, "Blockbuster!" was the band's sole UK #1 hit. Released in January 1973, it spent five weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart, and also made #1 in the Netherlands, Germany and Ireland, but fared less well in the USA where it peaked at #73 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its riff was considered markedly similar to David Bowie's "The Jean Genie", released shortly before, but all parties maintain that this was pure coincidence.[1]
| Preceded by "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond |
UK number one single January 23, 1973 |
Succeeded by "Cum on Feel the Noize" by Slade |
[edit] Notes
- ^ Nicholas Pegg (2000). The Complete David Bowie: p.110
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