“Block Buster!” Single by Sweet from the album The Sweet. B-side: “Need a Lot of Lovin'”.
Released: 5 January 1973. Recorded in 1972.
Songwriters: Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman
Producer: Phil Wainman
Released in January 1973, it spent five weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart, and also made #1 in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Ireland, and #3 in Finland, Switzerland, Denmark and Norway. Outside Europe it peaked at #1 in New Zealand, #29 in Australia and at #73 on the American Billboard Hot 100.
In December 1973, David Bowie’s “The Jean Genie” peaked at #2 in the UK charts. The following month, this song went one better going all the way to #1. Both songs used the same Yardbirds riff from Bo Diddley’s “I’m A Man.”
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.
This song featured an air-raid siren over a decade before one was used on Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s “Two Tribes.”
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