Block Buster!

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"Block Buster!"
Single by Sweet
from the album The Sweet
B-side"Need a Lot of Lovin'"
Released5 January 1973[1]
Recorded1972
Genre
Length3:13
LabelRCA
SongwritersNicky Chinn, Mike Chapman
ProducerPhil Wainman
Sweet singles chronology
"Wig-Wam Bam"
(1972) 		"Block Buster!"
(1973) 		"Hell Raiser"
(1973)
Video
"Blockbuster" - Top Of The Pops on YouTube

"Block Buster!" (also sometimes listed as "Blockbuster!") is a 1973 single by The Sweet. Written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, and produced by Phil Wainman, "Block Buster!" was the band's sole UK No. 1 hit. Released in January 1973, it spent five weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart,[8] and also made No. 1 in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Ireland, and No. 3 in Finland, Switzerland, Denmark and Norway. Outside Europe it peaked at No. 1 in New Zealand, No. 29 in Australia and at No. 73 on the American Billboard Hot 100.

Music and lyric

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Its Muddy Waters-inspired blues riff is markedly similar to that featured on fellow RCA act David Bowie's "The Jean Genie", released shortly before, but all parties maintained this was a coincidence.[9]

TV performances

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Some controversy arose after the band's performance of the song on the British television program Top of the Pops on 25 December 1973, for which bassist Steve Priest wore a swastika arm band, a painted Hitler moustache and a Pickelhaube.[10]

Charts

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Chart (1973) Peak
position
Australia 29
Austria 1
Belgium 2
Denmark 1
Finland 3
Germany 1
Ireland 1
Italy 30
Netherlands 1
New Zealand [11] 1
Norway 3
South Africa 7
Spain 12
Switzerland 3
United Kingdom[12] 1
United States[13] 73

In the case of Belgium, there are two types of lists. The one for the Flemish speaking part of Belgium (Flanders) saw the song reach number two, for five consecutive weeks,.[14] In the French speaking part (Wallonia) the song climbed to number one, for two consecutive weeks.[15]

References

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