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It wasn't a burning question in , or not as burning as "does anyone know the way to blockbuster? Only later did it become an issue. They split up many aeons ago, and attempted to reform for the last time in , then split up again in But glamrock nostalgia being the honey pot that it for a while was, there were two rival Sweets out on the road, one fronted by guitarist Andy Scott, the other by singer Brian Connolly.

Remember "Ballroom Blitz"? Over the drummed intro Connolly used to ask Steve, Mick and Andy if they were ready to go. By the mids it was Glen, Dave, Geoff and a different Steve. Which Sweet was the genuine article?

Which band was the Sweet? This alas is now somewhat academic, as Brian Connolly has long since snapped his last microphone stand in two and retired to the great glamrock hall of fame in the sky. So a bit like 2. Before Connolly died, I had the pleasure — and it really was — of doing what turned out to be the last ever interview with him. He told me that he and Scott never did get on. He started ringing up promoters and my name got blackened for no reason at all.

Connolly was the one member of the band who didn't look like a tree trunk smeared in lipstick. And unlike, say, Noddy Holder, he had a beautiful voice. When I met him he still wore his white-blond hair in a shoulder-length feather cut, but the grimacing face it framed had raced ahead. He walked with gingerly grandmother's footsteps, as if still teetering on platforms, and the hands had a very pronounced shake. When he picked up a full cup of tea you feared the worst. He looked like the addled ghost of a pin-up.

Very much a case of recognise your age, it's the old age rampage. What happened? Connolly insisted to me that he "didn't drink and I've never been into drugs". But when he left the band in , exhausted by the lion's share of promotional chores and intent on chasing up other offers, a mole within put it about that he was an alcoholic. But I did a stupid thing, because about a year after I left the group I started drinking.

In he had a heart attack, then another 13 in the space of 24 hours if you believe what his ex-wife said in a Channel 4 documentary in , in six weeks if you believe Connolly. He was lucid and very likeable, but like other pop stars with a memory laundered by the sins of success, Connolly was an unreliable witness in his own life story.

Who wouldn't be shaky on the details after receiving the last rites, a prelude to two years of elocution lessons and breathing therapy? All I could do was mumble. I had to start from scratch. Prior to the cardiacs I had a Scottish accent. His biography as he told it began at the age of 12 with a move from outside Glasgow down to Middlesex. He joined the navy at 16 as a training officer.

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