Sweet - 08.Song Of The Month "Hell Raiser" (OFFICIAL)

Hell Raiser was released in May 1973 reaching number one and number two in the German and UK charts respectively and occupied the top 5 chart positions in many other European countries. Although a Chinnichap composition the band’s interpretation of the song showcases their significant skills and musicianship. A live version, recorded at the Rainbow theatre, was featured in the BBC documentary “Scene: All That Glitters”.
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[@catherinebragina5261]

Mick Tucker so powerful yet graceful on the drums there. Heavenly!

[@TheHumbuckerboy]

One of the best ever ! 😃

[@stevehalling816]

@@TheHumbuckerboy your not wrong

[@illusionclassicrock6742]

One of my absolute favorite Sweet tunes! But then I always liked their heavier stuff.

[@kodiakandgrizzlybears3787]

The Sweet are one of the best bands ever on this planet!!

[@Olegzyan]

can't agree more!

[@anne5surf]

We saw them in Glasgow last week and they put on a great show. Excellent musicians and vocals. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@tinasabat7303]

Hearing the backstories to all these songs just makes me appreciate Sweet even more.

[@joesophie90]

Just found out that Dawn and Wizzard, prevented Hell Raiser from getting to number one, here in the UK. My eldest bro was a Sweet fan, my twin brother was Slade and I was Wizzard. My sister was Barry Blue and my youngest brother loved GG. We did though listen to a lot of Sweet - Sweet Fanny Adams and their previous release, which was Sweets Biggest Hits. We would have Sweet on in the car, when we went fishing and to the seaside. Really do respect The Sweet.

[@kxrv6629]

One of the Best Sweet songs ever! But there are so many!!!

[@petrascheiblich6191]

I see The Sweet 1976 in the Grugahalle Germany/Essen. It's long time ago I was so young😉es war fantastisch👍👍🎤🎸🎵🎼🎶💕The Sweet Fan forever bis heute!

[@philipholmes5884]

That's incredible ! When they came to Los Angeles they played the Santa Monica civic in 1974...I was too young to go...😐

[@blastfromthepast8344]

Can't imagine a song like that getting into the pop charts today, somehow! Sadly we have taken a HUGE step backwards and the halcyon days of the 1970s now seem like a truly different age.

[@TheRayterry]

A living legend, him, and Steve! RIP: Brian & Mick

[@brokislivecborec6910]

RIP Steve

[@RX8PZPilot]

I absolutely loved Hell Raiser back in the day, and still DO all these years later! Brilliant.

[@fischergreen4134]

Us 70’s hip kids never took the Sweet seriously, we saw them as a manufactured Chinn and Chapman band. Over the years I've come to realise that they were quite simply brilliant

[@TheHumbuckerboy]

This was the first single that I ever bought and ... I still have it in my collection !

[@davidlisowski5245]

The more I listen to their songs, the more I realize how much they influence Motley Crüe, Great White, Poison and other 80s bands.

[@patrickdoyle7552]

As well as Judas priest

[@DanM-ys5pz]

And they're still better than all of them...and I was a teenager during the 80's.

[@iainholmes2735]

Looking at the live footage, the drumming is amazing. All four were fantastic rock musicians. Years ahead of their time.

[@peterschwarz8835]

Mit einer der besten Rockbands!!! Sweet Forever!!! R.l.P Brian Mick und Steve 😥

[@merlin5476]

Even as a 10 yr old, i preferred the b sides. Im 57 now & still love em. Many thanks Andy scott for many yrs of entertainment. Especially the Musik laden live bits.... there bloody awesome.

[@shempuhorn8261]

This is gold!

[@mariakennedy4582]

Hell Raiser !!! What a song. I love it:):):)

[@michaelehlert9]

I’m hearing this for the first time and I’m 55. I’m a big early 80s heavy metal fan..this is really great.

[@leosword7142]

Where have you been. Under a rock 🪨💤💤💤

[@michaelehlert9]

@@leosword7142 we didn’t get much of Sweet in the Midwest, their first pop hits didn’t bode well for rock and roll fans

[@leosword7142]

@@michaelehlert9 oh I see the Midwest. I now get it. I thought you must have been living in Siberia. Lol Check out some of the heavier stuff you might enjoy it if you haven't 😉. Take care🤘

[@vincentdelhommeau4667]

Bientôt 50 ans, et toujours d'actualité!

[@leosword7142]

I love Andy's insights he is so giving. As a 60 year old fan I find it rewarding and interesting.

[@vallancesmillie5734]

Mick wow legend

[@chrishutt8]

Power pop, glam & hard rock & proto metal!

[@rosannag.8172]

Brilliant 👍 I love it ♥️

[@PaulLea]

I still have the 45. That song is up at the top of my all-time fav 45s from the time. I'ts still a kick ass-blood-pumping ballsy rocker🤩👌. Thanks for keeping the "Sweet" flag flying Andy.

[@lewisner]

I can feel a Sweet bingewatch coming on................

[@annetteminett8500]

I’ve been doing that

[@markgande4497]

WOW!!!!!! I can't believe just how good this band actually were. I never realized this at the time, although I really liked them but I was barely 10 yrs old. It's so great that this sound as good as it does today when I can appreciate some of the musicianship. Truly wonderful stuff - I would love to hear more. Thanks for this Andy.

[@ivansnegireff1652]

Wow this is very interesting

[@knickertwistcopperby6066]

@Mark Grande The same here. I was a fan and bought all their singles but I had no idea they were such excellent musicians. They should have been given more recognition for this.

[@CarlosColle]

Mick Tucker, pra mim um dos maiores bateristas da história do Rock. Minha influência.

[@surfing636]

I love the breakdown of these songs, really shows how hard they worked to translate from studio to live shows! Glad Ozzy gave them a shout out, since this really is a hard rock song. I notice no Sweet songs sound the same, all uniquely have a different flow.

[@agoogleuser4443]

My daughter said the same thing, about all their songs sound different. Very versatile band! Nice video with Andy explaining how it's done to us non-musicians.

[@mrfunball5204]

Great song, great band, great guitar player, and really great hair ! ✌

[@lisamurray7168]

“Realistically you can’t do them all in one hit…Even though I do live somehow” spoken like a true guitar genius🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@bobbydale1938]

Thanks Andy :)

[@AngryPostmanStockholm]

Love to see Andy all alive 50 years after you fell completely fior them , it's almost unrealistic

[@jacquelinec.6785]

I absolutely love this tune! You can hear each individual musician clearly!

[@benestwice]

I still have all my Sweet records ! Fantastic !

[@caryheuchert]

Fascinating interview & demo, Andy!!! Please keep doing more Sweet songs. By the way, Brian was a great screamer... right up there with Jim Morrison!

[@Ace8Three]

This song has one of the coolest intros in rock music.

[@arjakolehmainen2691]

This is great rock music and excellent played. Very good rock bands. Relaxing to listen to. Thank you very much.👍👍👍👍👍⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷❤❤❤❤❤🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷❤❤❤❤❤🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@kevinmcguinness1113]

Got this single when I was 10, blew my mind then, with Burnin' on the B side, my 2 favourite songs from my favourite glam rock band back then. Got great memories of tearing around on the bumper cars with Hell Raiser blasting out on the PA. Sweet started my love with heavy rock, which still exists today, 47 years later. These 2 songs still get my blood pumping after all this time. Thanks for all the great music and the memories Andy, glad to see you're still cutting it all these years later. Keep safe and keep rockin' 🤟🤟

[@annralles8238]

Hi Andy, Love SWEET! Short story. My grandmother collected stuff that she found walking the park of Long Beach CA. Great Depression era woman. She brought home anything. Playboy mage etc. One day she brought home a 8 track tape of Desolation Boulevard. I immediately popped it into the Buick player and proceeded to burn that tape up. Loved it and still do! Thanks for these new live videos and the song of the month with your sharing . Love, Chris PS. Lost Angels is one of my faves.

[@CatherineInRock]

A fine choice! Lost Angels definitely one of their strongest tracks. Love it!

[@wessexTim]

Those were the days....

[@annetteminett8500]

Bring them back

[@retroblue4748]

Thank you Andy!!!💕💕💕❤️❤️❤️

[@redblade43]

*Below are all The Sweet's singles that I bought and in their chronological order from 1973 to 1978.* Blockbuster! Hell Raiser The Ballrom Blitz Teenage Rampage The Sixteens Turn It Down Fox On The Run Action The Lies In Your Eyes Lost Angels Fever Of Love Stairway To The Stars Love Is Like Oxygen

[@joesophie90]

Loving these videos. I would say that Hell Raiser, was bang in the middle of the Glam era - a brilliant time in music. I was eight years of age, when Hell Raiser came out.

[@AnthonySmith-cp7yc]

My fave band when I was a kid

[@sinjinmonsoon9055]

2022 still the best band ever. I ❤ SWEET

[@annetteminett8500]

And in 2024

[@dandelionsarefree7436]

Love this song and performance

[@kathygore2252]

Thanks Andy - I bet I am not alone in wishing that more (if not all) of that Rainbow 1973 concert would magically appear

[@JDSoos]

You're not alone. I want to see it, as well.

[@maryanncolyer1187]

I really enjoy these songs of the month

[@juliearch1]

lovely Andy..hero..wish i could meet him xx

[@daianelourenco7025]

Fantastic. I wish to have lived in the 70's! I am 17 years old but I imagine as were the great shows. (and Ozzy Osbourne have a excellent musical taste :-) )

[@shadowlandstudios86]

One of my favorite Sweet tunes! But then I always did like your heavier, more rockin material.

[@davidmcque627]

I remember going into Boots to buy this. I think it was 42p. Still got it. Great song, happy times

[@ivansnegireff1652]

wow that's golden man🎶🤘

[@skatedd2451]

I learnt how to play the song of one of your old film clips... about 10 years ago I bought your documentary about the sweet.. when I was a kid I used to dream about to.. be able to play guitar.. but eventually I taught myself. using tablature... picked it up quite well... then I learnt quite a few of your songs... and then I learn how to play Hellraiser... absolutely love play that song on guitar... it's got quite a heavy metal.. feel to it... one of the top songs.. of hard rock metal... would have inspire lot of... it inspired me.... absolutely love your music... had a massive crush on Brian when I was a kid... he was a good looking guy.... who are legend Andy in my eyes

[@skatedd2451]

meant to say you are a legend in my eyes Andy

[@babiebitch1756]

"You can't do it all in one hit, but I do live somehow" humble brag there Andy?

[@helenb6399]

Yeah he fudges it "somehow"! 😂

[@alygodsquad]

Fantastic one of my fave Sweet tracks

[@Cl4rendon]

All these wonderful details i wanted to know in a lifetime and getting answered in a series.. just brilliant. Thanks alot.

[@user-he6mu9gj6u]

Das ist die beste Gruppe die es gibt.

[@fastcar1957]

Andy your knowledge of music and phenomenal ability with the guitar are amazing.

[@starkjanne]

Great video! Love to hear about these things! Would also love to hear about how the band wrote the flip-side - outstanding really heavy stuff like Man From Mecca, Burning and Need A Lot Of Livin'!

[@HrdRck]

The best "Song Of The Month" yet, Andy! Loved watching this. What I wouldn't give to get my hands on those studio multitracks to play around with at home! I'm so grateful to you for creating this channel and putting the effort in to creating these song analysis clips. Keep them coming, please! And I hope you get into the album tracks, B-sides and ultra-heavy stuff eventually. Any chance of a book/DVD coming out of these in the near future?

[@LeftySheSwills]

absolutely brilliant!!

[@Cl4rendon]

I recently heard the full Mike Chapman demo to this and it`s absolutely hilarious!! No wonder Andy was suspecting the influence of "Brandy involved". :D

[@jash41]

One of the best songs you did mate total rock Jx

[@trevorthompson7604]

So very interesting I would listen to you play and talk music all day thanks Andy it tales me way back

[@justjeph9056]

What a cool old dude.. thanks for that breakdown

[@BebopHardRock]

What a fat, heavy groove !! This is what Rock'NRoll should sound like !!

[@MrWkdWilly]

Masterpiece….what energy 👍

[@xyzvision]

This all shows LOVE. Great to have current The Sweet. Love to hear the Chapman demos.

[@rannisto12]

I'd like to hear the whole demo by Mike Chapman. Sounded damn awesome :D

[@richalderson6069]

Andy's hair is so perfect it could almost pass for a wig.

[@agoogleuser4443]

Ha, IKR. It kills me when guys have prettier hair than I do, lol!

[@habibi9200]

EXCELLENT Andy !!!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to share your huge musical skills and knowledge with us all, as well as all the fascinating exeriences surrounding the development and making of the single.

[@dtlongrifles]

1976, the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan. Sweet ROCKED!

[@user-nx6nb5yq5h]

Sweet 👍👍👍👍💥

[@neluniculae7388]

Congratulation Andy!Thanks so much !

[@coomzee1]

Oh how I would have loved to seen them in their hay day ..tut was only a few years old .Great to watch these time n time again.

[@michaelquaglia4156]

Fucking Brilliant Song ! Thanks Andy !

[@lindahubbuck6451]

Mick is Excellent on those Drums

[@yepper1165]

The cover Def Leppard did of the song's the first time i heard it. It's great!

[@davidjaggs]

These are awesome!

[@placYEAH]

Grazie from Italy

[@Olegzyan]

The Loney Rocker loves The Sweet!

[@386347010]

I expected this,thank you very much again!

[@martinpringle8695]

fab series keep em coming Andy...PLEASE!

[@kevanwitt55]

just brilliant ,

[@mjh5437]

Wonderful.....Yob Rock at its very best!!

[@hughcdavies]

Excellent, I always thought Hell Raiser was the best single by The Sweet, And it's great to hear about the way it's put together. Keep spreading The Sweet message.

[@diemuckedeslebens]

Great! One of THE songs of my youth. Tnx for explaining us the details and backgrounds of this fantastic song!!!

[@domenicogrossi2952]

I love very much this song , hard rock very intense; I remember this song is the beginning of the album "live in england" came out only in Italy in 1974 (but you know as the live part of the album strung up) I put in the post a pic of the album. Hello wherever you are.

[@utagoldmann7707]

Beste Band für immer 👍

[@rikkisogazgf]

Andy- Who thought up y'all's costumes? 💖 em!! I 💖 all y'all's songs/videos!! Sweet still rox here in the U.S.A. thu!!! We still 💖 you guys too!!! 👍😁😎😍🎸🐯😘💖

[@agoogleuser4443]

Ditto for this American girl! Love the outfits. 😻

[@markcoutinho]

Once again great info, Andy. Thanks!

[@boeliewinter7492]

My First Album, Sweet Funny Addams! Than I bekame a drummer Because of Mick Tucker!

[@futhark3899]

Brilliant

[@nicolasrodriguezcubides5291]

Son los mejores ,los admiro y espero que su legado lo disfruten las nuevas generacion es tanto o mas como lo sigo disfrutando.

[@ames2610]

I love that mini Moog sound!

[@drummerman1964]

once again, great to watch. "Hell Raiser" is such a powerful recording, after "Ballroom Blitz" my second favourite SWEET-single. Andy, we are really looking for an OFFICIAL DVD-release from one of the greatest bands in Rock-history. Anyway, thanks for the stuff...

[@scotharrison5670]

Fascinating insight to the song Andy. Brilliant stuff. Keep 'em coming. Cheers

[@helenb6399]

Please could Andy let us know why he's playing a different guitar in the clip. Also well done to Brian for shouting "look out" in that scary way - sometimes being loud now & again is good! Plus lots of explosions is always good in glam rock in my book.

[@bertmaanders6679]

+Helen B The startling `Look Out` shout which commences the track was provided by Mike Chapman,keen as ever to ensure his contribution was merely more than writing....

[@DerekArmsden]

It's weird to find out stuff so many years later. Hell Raiser wasn't a hit single in Australia, I only heard it when I got the Sweet Singles Album so I assumed at the time it must have been released before Ballroom Blitz. As in, before The Sweet caught on in this country. To find out it came out after Blockbuster is, well, weird!