Sweet Fanny Adams (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Sweet Fanny Adams
Type = Album
Artist = Sweet

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Released = April 1974
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 42:44
Label = RCA Records/Capitol
Producer = Phil Wainman
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dcfyxq95ldse link]
Last album = "The Sweet"
(1973)
This album = "Sweet Fanny Adams"
(1974)
Next album = "Desolation Boulevard"
(1974)

Sweet Fanny Adams is the first of two 1974 albums by Sweet (also their first LP record simply as Sweet).

"Set Me Free" vas covered by Saxon on their album "Crusader".

Track listing

# "Set Me Free" 3:57 (Andy Scott)
# "Heartbreak Today" 5:02 (Scott/Tucker/Connolly/Priest)
# "No You Don't" 4:33 (Nicky Chinn/Mike Chapman)
# "Rebel Rouser" 3:25 (Scott/Tucker/Connolly/Priest)
# "Peppermint Twist" 3:28 (Joey Dee/Henry Glover)
# "Sweet F.A." 6:14 (Scott/Tucker/Connolly/Priest)
# "Restless" 4:28 (Scott/Tucker/Connolly/Priest)
# "Into The Night" 4:24 (Andy Scott)
# "A.C.D.C." 3:27 (Nicky Chinn/Mike Chapman)

On Remastered Edition (2005):

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"Blockbuster" 3:13 (Single A-Side - Bonus Track)
# "Need a Lot of Lovin'" 3:02 (Single B-Side - Bonus Track)
# "Hell Raiser" 3:19 (Single A-Side - Bonus Track)
# "Burning" 4:07 (Single B-Side - Bonus Track)
# "The Ballroom Blitz" 4:03 (Single A-Side - Bonus Track)
# "Rock'n'Roll Disgrace" 3.53 (Single B-Side - Bonus Track)

Name

The name is English slang "sweet Fanny Adams" comes from the phrase by Frederick Baker, the killer of 8 years old Fanny Adams in 1867, and means "nothing at all" as well as a similar euphemism "F.A." = "fuck all".

Credits

*Brian Connolly - Lead and backing vocals, Handclaps and Tambourine.
*Steve Priest - Lead vocals on tracks 3 & 7, Backing vocals, Bass guitar and six-string bass.
*Mick Tucker - Backing vocals, All drums and Percussion, Voice effects.
*Andy Scott - Lead vocals on track 8, Backing vocals, All Guitars, Moog, Piano and Cellos.

Produced by Phil Wainman for Chinebridge Ltd.

:This album reached #27 in the UK in the year of its release by RCA Records in 1974."Sweet Fanny Adams" was not released in the U.S. but tracks 1, 3, 6, 8 & 9 formed the backbone for the band's U.S. version of the album "Desolation Boulevard" released the following year on Capitol.