"Fox On the Run," Sweet
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Sweet's Desolation Boulevard, the U.S. edition of which also included their concurrent single - "Fox On the Run."
Sweet - Brian Connolly on lead vocals, Andy Scott on guitar, synthesizer, and vocals, Steve Priest on bass and vocals, and Mick Tucker on drums, percussion, and vocals - wrote "Fox On the Run as a group effort. The song involves a rock singer who rejects a groupie he's been with before because she's changed her looks . . . and because she's too busy talking about other groups, though the names she drops are "second-hand." "Fox On the Run" is almost self-parody, Sweet making fun of themselves, with the key lyric - "I don't want to know your name" - referring to their desire not to learn the names of the groupies they =, uh associated with on the road, lest they get too imitate and personal with them.
"Fox On the Run" might very well have been one of the msot successful songs ever to pass the censors. 😄 It reached number two on the British singles chart and peaked at number five in America on the Billboard singles chart. This clip, my Music Video Of the Week, is the promotional video Sweet made for "Fox On the Run" - no theatrics, just a pure power-pop performance. (Hey - I just wrote an alliteration!) Enjoy.
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