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One of two surviving members of the band, guitarist Andy Scott, has lived in Wiltshire for the past eleven years.
BBC Wiltshire Sound’s Dan Chisholm caught up with him to share memories of Mick Tucker: the man and musician.
Click here to listen to the interview
It is anticipated that many stars from the world of rock music will attend Mick Tucker’s funeral which will take place on Monday 25th February.
BBC Wiltshire Sound’s Dan Chisholm writes:
Andy Scott and I had been planning for several weeks to meet up for a meal last Friday evening following his recent radio programmes for BBC Wiltshire Sound.
When he rang on Valentines Day to break the news just hours after Mick’s death, I could barely take it in.
The Sweet were the first band I saw live back in 1973 .. and I can still recall the gig as if it were yesterday. I remember this huge drum-kit which Mick Tucker sat behind. He seemed to play the impossible, a fantastic showman twirling his drumsticks like a majorette
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Formerly known as the website www.andyscott.info
Andy Scott:
“I am a hoarder and to my delight and chagrin I appear to have kept everything. As a result everything you read an see here has been taken from my own personal collection of newspaper cuttings, photographs and memorabilia amassed over the years. Sit back and enjoy what has been a fantastic roller-coaster ride of a life, that when starting out as a fourteen year old musician in North Wales it was a life anyone could only dream about!”
Andys first band was the The Rasjaks. The name was created after a suggestion, from his father Harry Scott, to find an anagram using the initials of each band member. The band played just 3 gigs! The first was at St Peter’s Hall, Smithfield Road, Hightown, Wrexham in November 1963. This venue is now called “Caia Park Community Rooms” and a youth club still meets there every Friday just as it did in 1963. Apart from appearing in the Gang Shows with the Scouts, this was his stage debut. The second gig was at the British Celanese club, Mae
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Well…here I am so many years on from hearing Wig Wam Bam as a kid – which literally and instantly changed my life. I mean seriously, Sweet were my first cut.
And now here I am speaking, on Zoom at least, with the last living member of that band: Andy Scott.
Who would have thought?
I wonder how we’ll start?
“People will have probably told you I’m an arsehole.”
What a start. “But I’m not you know…”
Over the next forty odd minutes, I’m left with no doubt whatsoever that Andy Scott is a gentleman – so no illusions shattered there. Amiable and with a great sense of humour. We could have kept chatting for hours. So…
Anyone that’s ever been near a radio, TV, cinema…hell-anyone alive – has likely heard Andy Scott’s work. Whether they knew it or not.
As the guitarist of British group Sweet, his band’s music from the early seventies onwards has been not only heard extensively on radio via the plethora of hits they’ve had, which include Ballroom Blitz, Love Is Like Oxygen and Fox On The Run, to barely scratch the surface, but also featured in many films
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