Turn It Down (Sweet song)

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"Turn It Down"
Single by The Sweet
from the album Desolation Boulevard
B-side "Someone Else Will"
Released1 November 1974
Recorded1973
Genre
Length3:30
Label RCA
Songwriter(s) Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn
Producer(s) Mike Chapman in association with Nicky Chinn
The Sweet singles chronology
"The Six Teens"
(1974)		"Turn It Down"
(1974)		"Peppermint Twist"
(1974)

"Turn It Down" is a song by English glam rock band the Sweet released in 1974 as the second single from their third album Desolation Boulevard . The song was removed from the US version of Desolation Boulevard, along with two other songs, "Breakdown," and "Medussa. [1] In the UK, the single reached No. 41 on the charts (their first single to miss the top 40 since "Get on the Line" (1970), which missed the chart altogether), [2] but fared better in Europe, reaching the top five in Norway and Germany.

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Composition

"Turn It Down" is a hard rock, glam rock and proto-glam metal song, [3] more in-line with what the band sounded like live. [4]

Controversy

"Turn It Down" was banned by the BBC due to its subjective nature, and the lyric "I can’t take no more of that Godawful sound, so for God’s sake turn it down."

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1974)Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [5] 14
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) [6] 33
Norway (VG-lista) [7] 4
UK Singles (OCC) [2] 41
West Germany (GfK) [8] 4

References

  1. ↑ Swanson, Dave (30 November 2014). "40 Years Ago: Sweet Release 'Desolation Boulevard'". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Sweet: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
  3. ↑ Philio, Simon (15 October 2018). Glam Rock: Music in Sound and Vision. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 124. ISBN   9781442271487 . Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "Hellraiser: 10 Reasons Why Steve Priest of The Sweet Totally Ruled". Flood Magazine. June 5, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2025.
  5. ↑ "The Sweet – Turn It Down" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
  6. ↑ "The Sweet – Turn It Down" (in French). Ultratop 50.
  7. ↑ "The Sweet – Turn It Down". VG-lista.
  8. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – The Sweet – Turn It Down" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. To see peak chart position, click "TITEL VON The Sweet"
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