Brian Connolly
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Brian Francis Connolly was a Scottish singer-songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead singer of glam rock band Sweet between 1968 and 1979 and known for his charismatic stage presence an
Connolly, c. 1970s
Plaque commemorating Connolly at Breakspear Crematorium, Middlesex
Steve Priest
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Stephen Norman Priest was an English musician who was the bassist of the glam rock band The Sweet.
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…which included drummer Mick Tucker. Tucker and Connolly left Wainwright's Gentlemen in late 1967 and recruited guitarist Frank Torpey, and bassist Steve Priest, naming their new band the Sweetshop. On the eve of releasing their debut single, Slow Motion, in July 1968, the band shortened their name to the Sweet…
Priest in Dubuque, Iowa in 2018