![]() ^ The Complete New Zealand Music Charts, 1966-2006: Singles, Albums, DVDs, Compilations.The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade. ^ Beat Instrumental & Songwriting & Recording.1001 Songs: You Must Hear Before You Die. "The Story Behind The Song: Sweet's brutal true tale 'Ballroom Blitz' ". "That's neat: Chinnichap's blitz of 70s hits become a musical". "20 Songs That Defined the Early Seventies". ^ Harris, Keith Gehr, Richard (29 August 2016)."The 20 best glam-rock songs of all time". In 2021, White Denim published a cover of The Ballroom Blitz via Dropbox. In 2016, The Struts recorded it for the soundtrack of film The Edge of Seventeen. ![]() Other covers include Krokus in 1984, the Surf Punks on their 1988 album Oh No! Not Them Again (in the lyrics jacket it just says, "You should know the words by now"), Japanese glam rock band Scanch on their 1991 album Ultra Romantic Bombers for Unlimited Lovers under the title of "R&R Dynamite Kyoujidai", thrash metal band Nuclear Assault on their 1991 album Out of Order, Tia Carrere featuring a back track featuring Tommy Nickerson on the soundtrack to Wayne's World in 1992, and Christian rock band Calibretto 13 on their album Enter the Danger Brigade in 2000. It was released as a B-side to " I Just Can't Be Happy Today" and featured as a bonus track on their CD reissue of Machine Gun Etiquette. In 1979, the song was covered by the Damned, which featured Lemmy from Motörhead on bass guitar. Cover versions Īn early cover of "The Ballroom Blitz" was by the Les Humphries Singers in 1974, the first German single to reach #1 in New Zealand. The initial guitar and drum riff of the song has similarity to a 1963 song by Bobby Comstock called "Let's Stomp". The song appeared on the US and Canadian versions of Desolation Boulevard but never appeared on a Sweet album in the UK, other than hits compilations. The song was recorded on 11-12 June 1973 at Audio International Studio, 18 Rodmarton Street, London, and released as a single in September 1973. "The Ballroom Blitz" was inspired by an incident on 27 January 1973 when the band were performing at the Grand Hall in Kilmarnock, Scotland, and were driven offstage by a bottling. ![]() ![]() It remains an enduring favourite, with more than 90 million streams on Spotify alone by the end of 2022. The song reached number one in Canada, number two in the UK Singles Chart and the Australian Chart, and number five on the US Billboard Hot 100. Writer(s): NICHOLAS BARRY CHINN, MICHAEL DONALD CHAPMANLyrics powered by The Ballroom Blitz" (often called " Ballroom Blitz") is a song by British glam rock band The Sweet, written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Are you ready, gents? (We are) Steve? (I′m okay) Clemmy? (OK) Alright, fellas, let's go! Oh it′s been getting so hard Livin' with the things you do to me Oh my dreams are getting so strange I'd like to tell you everything I see Oh, I see a man at the back As a matter of fact his eyes are red as the sun And a girl in the corner let no one ignore her ′Cause she thinks she′s the passionate one Oh, yeah, it was like lightning Everybody was frightening And the music was soothing And they all started grooving Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah And the man at the back said Everyone attack and it turned into a ballroom blitz And the girl in the corner said Boy, I wanna warn ya, it'll turn into a ballroom blitz Ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz Ballroom blitz I′m reaching out for something Touching nothing's all I ever do Oh, I softly call you over When you appear there′s nothing left of you Now the man in the back Was ready to crack as he raises his hands to the sky And the girl in the corner is ev'ryone′s mourner She could kill you with a wink of her eye Oh yeah, it was electric So frighteningly hectic And the band started leaving 'Cause they all stopped breathing Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah And the man at the back said Everyone attack and it turned into a ballroom blitz And the girl in the corner said Boy, I wanna warn ya, it'll turn into a ballroom blitz Ballroom blitz Oh yeah, it was like lightning Everybody was frightening And the music was soothing And they all started grooving Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah And the man at the back said Everyone attack and it turned into a ballroom blitz And the girl in the corner said, "Boy, I wanna warn ya" It′ll turn into a ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz Ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz It′s, it's a ballroom blitz It′s, it's a ballroom blitz It′s, it's a ballroom blitz Yeah, it′s a ballroom blitz It's, it's a ballroom blitz It′s, it′s a ballroom blitz It's, it′s a ballroom blitz Yeah, it's a ballroom blitz
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