Brian Connolly

She knew what I do now.

But are you going to go with Kibble or are you going to choose somebody else and why? You mentioned Brian Connolly earlier, so...

I wonder whether you'd go

for him.

Brian Connolly would be there.

And this is going to sound like a bit of a cop out because I have been speaking to him.

But there's one fugitive that really, really sticks out for me.

Yeah.

And then, yeah, so I was, like, that's why I started going and talking about Haylen Pace all the time and, you know, Gary Wilmot and Brian Connolly, all the stuff I used to watch.

Yeah.

Do you have a

You mentioned Bryan Adams and his association with Sweeney Todd.

Uh, I was surprised just learning about, uh, the glam history of folks like Reed Diamond and Brian Connolly from the Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, like when you get into Alberta.

I don't know if we did this justice, but, uh, and I've done a little bit of it in the, in the pre-recorded introduction of this episode.

But you've gone province by province in Canada-

And I went for my open audition for me and my girl, got through and got the lead.

And I took over Brian Connolly.

so i sent two tickets to the teacher that told me i'd never make it and he never came and watched so that that kind of really made me giggle a little bit every year over the years i always recollect that story

as a kid did you ever go and see panto

A track, oh my goodness, that was written by long-time songwriters Chin and Chapman, and the track... was produced by them as well too.

That was the original line-up of Brian Connolly, Steve Priest, Andy Scott, who is still with us, and Mick Tucker.

The classic line-up of Sweet.

And when I think of glam rock, I think of Sweet.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, who was the guitarist and frontman for the Steve Miller Band, had songs like The Joker, Fly Like an Eagle, Abracadabra, a whole ton of hits.

Brian Connolly was born in 1945.

Lead vocalist for the 1970s British glam rock band Sweet had hits like Ballroom Blitz and Fox on the Run.

Fast Eddie Clark was born in 1950.