Block Buster!



"Block Buster!" (also sometimes listed as "Blockbuster!") is a 1973 single by The Sweet. Written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, and produced by Phil Wainman, "Block Buster!" was the band's sole UK No. 1 hit. Released in January 1973, it spent five weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart,[1]  and also made #1 in the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand,Austria and Ireland, and #3 in Finland, Switzerland and Norway. Outside Europe it fared less well as it peaked at #29 inAustralia and at #73 on the American Billboard Hot 100. ==Music and lyrics[ edit] == Its riff was considered markedly similar to fellow RCA act David Bowie's "The Jean Genie", released shortly before, but all parties maintain that this was pure coincidence.[2] ==TV performances[ edit] == Some controversy rose after the band's performance of the song on the British television program Top of the Pops. In this performance, Sweet's bassist Steve Priest wore a Nazi German military uniform with a Swastika hanging on it, and he also had a moustache painted on himself, which was similar to that of Adolf Hitler.[3]