The Sweet (also known as Sweet) is a British glam rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s. Their best known line-up consisted of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker.
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Sweet had their last Top 10 hit in 1978 with "Love Is Like Oxygen". Connolly left the group in 1979 to start a solo career and the remaining members continued as a trio until disbanding in 1981. From the mid-1980s, Scott, Connolly and Priest each played with their own versions of Sweet at different times. Connolly died in 1997 and Tucker in 2002. The two surviving members are still active in their respective versions of the band; Scott's is based in the UK and Priest's in the US.



The Sweet in the mid-1970s. Clockwise from top left: Steve Priest, Brian Connolly, Mick Tucker, Andy Scott.

Brian Francis Connolly (5 October 1945 – 9 February 1997) was a Scottish musician and actor, best known as the lead singer of the British glam rock band The Sweet.

Early life

Brian Connolly was born in 1945 in Govanhill, Glasgow. The identity of his father was never made public. His mother was a teenage waitress, Frances Connolly, who left him in a Glasgow hospital as an infant whilst he was possibly suffering from meningitis. He was fostered, aged two, by Jim and Helen McManus of Blantyre and took their family name.