THE SWEET were the perfect band for a teen audience: Cute guys with long, perfectly shampooed hair. Crazy clothes. Boys to cuddle. Colorful, flashy, funny. Good solid pop music, easy to dance to. Their producers, Chinn and Chapman, were the successful writers of a long line of smash hits. The Sweet started out with very typical basic fare - the bubble-gum music of the early 70s. Their songs Big Wam Bum, Poppa Joe and Co Co became solid disco fox hits. However, these boys also managed to net the rock fans when they turned around on their style with songs such as Teenage Rampage, Ballroom Blitz, Block Buster, Fox on the run and their top hit Love is like Oxygen. Up to this day it is the essence of The Sweet for a great many people. A colourful rainbow of photographs, that's the only way a book on The Sweet could possibly turn out. This band lived the motto of Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll, with the photographer Bubi Heilemann always in close pursuit. Altogether he must have photographed around 200 photo sessions with The Sweet: On tour, backstage, home stories, at weddings and christenings. A special treat would be the double-page spread of Mick Tucker baring all... Bubi Heilemann took pictures of The Sweet throughout the 70s. Brian Connolly left the band in 1979 to start another band: The New Sweet. He died of a heart attack in 1997. The other three kept the project going for a long time. However, Mick Tucker died of leukemia in 2002. Steve Priest lives in the US, his musical output seems limited to his private needs. Only Andy Scott is still on the road, he put a new band together still called The Sweet, and he wrote a beautiful word of greeting for this volume. No other photographer but Bubi Heilemann spent as much time with the band, and thus thousands of fans world-wide have been waiting for this book for years now. Time and again Bubi Heilemann was begged to turn his unique and extensive The Sweet material into a book. Finally the time has come: 2005 sees the publication of The Sweet as yet another part of the successful Bubi Heilemann edition at Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf. This is by far the largest volume ever published on The Sweet, illustrated und produced with lavish attention to details, in a large format & in colour throughout with just a few expections.It contains numerous photographs that have never before been published - a delight for every true fan! Bubi Heilemann provides in-depth information of his time with the band and the photo sessions.