The Sweet co-founder Steve Priest has died at the age of 72.The bass player and singer’s longtime bandmate, Andy Scott, confirmed the sad news via Facebook on Thursday, confessing he was struggling to come to terms with his friend’s death.“I am in pieces right now,” Scott wrote. “Steve Priest has passed away.
His wife Maureen and I have kept in contact, and though his health was failing, I never envisaged this moment.”Calling Priest “the best bass player I ever played with”, Scott added: “The noise we made as a band was so powerful.
From that moment in the summer of 1970 when set off on our musical odyssey, the world opened up and the roller-coaster ride started!”The Sweet became a glam-rock supergroup thanks to hits like Ballroom Blitz and