Sweet Desolation Boulevard 1975 Capitol Records Original Vinyl LP w/Insert
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Desolation Boulevard Original UK Cover Studio album by The Sweet Released November 1974 Recorded 1974 Studio Audio International Studios, London Genre Glam rock, hard rock, heavy metal Length 41:09 Label RCA Producer Mike Chapman in association with Nicky Chinn The Sweet chronology Sweet Fanny Adams
(1974) Desolation Boulevard
(1974) The Sweet Singles Album
(1975) Singles from Desolation Boulevard
- "The Six Teens"
Released: July 1974 - "Turn It Down"
Released: November 1974 - "Fox on the Run"
Released: March 1975
Desolation Boulevard is the third studio album by the British glam rock band Sweet, originally released in the United Kingdom in November 1974. Two noticeably different versions of the album were released: one by RCA Records in Europe, and another by Capitol Records in the United States, Canada and Japan.
The RCA version contains the single "Turn It Down" and the original recording of "Fox on the Run." The Capitol version, released in the United States in July 1975, includes the 1973 hit single "The Ballroom Blitz" and the single version of "Fox on the Run." In the U.S., the album peaked at #25 on October 25, 1975.
Desolation Boulevard is considered by many to be the band's best album. Andy Scott, Sweet's guitarist, said of Desolation Boulevard: "Such diversity only proves that the band was never going to be just formulaic, giving this album a definitive place in Sweet history".
Cover artwork
The album artwork was done by art design group Hipgnosis, famous for working with the likes of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. The background photo was shot near the entrance of a rock music club called The Central, located at 8852 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. Today, it is the site of The Viper Room, which is where actor River Phoenix died of a drug overdose on Halloween morning in 1993.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Brian Connolly, Steve Priest, Andy Scott and Mick Tucker except where noted.
Side one- "The Six Teens" (Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn) – 4:02
- "Solid Gold Brass" – 5:33
- "Turn It Down" (Chapman, Chinn) – 3:30
- "Medusa" ("Medussa", on remastered CD editions 1999 and 2005[8]) (Scott) – 4:45
- "Lady Starlight" (Scott) – 3:12
- "The Man with the Golden Arm" (Elmer Bernstein, Sylvia Fine) – 8:27
- "Fox on the Run" – 4:47
- "Breakdown" – 3:06
- "My Generation" (Pete Townshend) – 3:59
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