Desolation Boulevard by Sweet

Desolation Boulevard, Sweet's third studio album, came out in the UK in November 1974 on RCA with Brian Connolly singing, Andy Scott on guitar, Steve Priest on bass and Mick Tucker on drums, and Mike Chapman producing. It's glam turned up to hard rock volume: crunching riffs, pounding drums, and those shrill, stacked harmonies piled on top like glitter on a leather jacket.

There are really two versions. The European RCA record carries the single "Turn It Down" and the first recording of "Fox on the Run"; the Capitol edition for the US, Canada and Japan, out in May 1975, swaps in the band's 1973 smash "The Ballroom Blitz" and the single cut of "Fox on the Run." That American version climbed to 25 in October 1975. Scott later argued that the album's variety proved Sweet were never going to settle into a formula.

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