Not to nitpick, but surely the title should be Greatezt Hitz? Attention to detail is important, as this writer discovered while on the road with Sweet in Germany in the mid-70s. Frontman Brian Connolly’s white satin bell bottoms arrived back from the drycleaner draped over a crude metal clothes hanger, creating impossible-to-remove creases in the kneecap area. Connolly was apoplectic with rage, and rightly so. It was a proper rock’n’roll disgrace.
Attention to detail is also important while researching Sweet’s back catalogue in order to put together this compilation of past glitter-cheeked glories. But first things first. is available in two formats: three-CD digisleeve, and two-LP transparent coloured vinyl with, bizarrely, one disc being violet and one pink. The CD package is the one you want because it contains tons more tracks. Yet they are not ordered chronologically, so one can be listening to the storming one minute and the throwaway the next. Presumably the idea is to accentuate the difference between the ‘bubblegum’ Sweet, as mentored by hitmakers Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, and the ‘rockist’ direction the band favoured and
