Darrell Antony Sweet (16 May 1947 – 30 April 1999) was an English

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for the Scottish

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Nazareth Nazareth ( ; ar, النَّاصِرَة, ''an-Nāṣira''; he, נָצְרַת, ''Nāṣəraṯ''; arc, ܢܨܪܬ, ''Naṣrath'') is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel". In ...

. He was a co-founder of Nazareth, which was formed in 1968.

Nazareth

Sweet was born in

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, England. His early years were spent playing with the Burntisland pipe band. He was also one of the members of The Shadettes that later became Nazareth. As a founding member of Nazareth, he played hard rock drums from 1969 until his death in 1999. He played drums on Nazareth's first 20 albums.

Death

Sweet died of a

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in 1999, as the band prepared to set out on the second leg of its U.S.

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in support of their latest album, ''

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''. The band had arrived at

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's New Albany Amphitheater when the 51-year-old Sweet began to feel ill. Within minutes he had gone into

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. He was taken to Floyd Memorial Hospital in New Albany, where doctors pronounced him dead. Sweet was survived by his wife, Marion, and their son and daughter. He was replaced in the band by Pete Agnew's son, Lee Agnew.

Discography

With Nazareth * ''

'' (1971) * ''

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'' (1972) * ''

Razamanaz ''Razamanaz'' is the third studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in May 1973. It was the band's first LP record to break the charts and was produced by Roger Glover of Deep Purple, who the band was on tour with at the t ...

'' (1973) * ''

Loud 'n' Proud ''Loud 'n' Proud'' is the fourth studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, and their second to be released in 1973. It is the first of two albums the band released to reach #1 in the Austrian charts. Track listing 1996 Castl ...

'' (1973) * ''

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'' (1974) * ''

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'' (1975) * '' Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll'' (1976) * ''

Play 'n' the Game ''Play 'n' the Game'' is the eighth studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth (band), Nazareth, released in 1976. Track listing 30th Anniversary Bonus Tracks 2006 Personnel Band members *Dan McCafferty - vocals *Manny Charlton ...

'' (1976) * ''

Expect No Mercy ''Expect No Mercy'' is the ninth studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in 1977. The original version was rejected by the label and these versions were the bonus tracks on the Salvo CD. The originally released version ...

'' (1977) * ''

No Mean City ''No Mean City'' is a 1935 novel by H. Kingsley Long, a journalist, and Alexander McArthur, an unemployed worker. It is an account of life in the Gorbals, a run-down slum district of Glasgow (now mostly demolished, but re-built in a contempora ...

'' (1979) * '' Malice in Wonderland'' (1980) * ''

The Fool Circle ''The Fool Circle'' is the twelfth studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in February 1981. "Cocaine" was a live cover of the song written by J. J. Cale and recorded in 1977 by Eric Clapton. There are remastered editi ...

'' (1981) * '' 2XS'' (1982) * ''

Sound Elixir ''Sound Elixir'' is the fourteenth studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in June 1983 by Vertigo Records. Track listing 1999 Castle Music Bonus Tracks 2002 30th Anniversary Bonus Tracks The 2011 remastered CD re ...

'' (1983) * ''

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'' (1984) * ''

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'' (1986) * '' Snakes 'n' Ladders'' (1989) * '' No Jive'' (1991) * '' Move Me'' (1994) * ''

'' (1998)

References

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* 1947 births 1999 deaths Scottish rock drummers British male drummers Nazareth (band) members People from Burntisland 20th-century British musicians 20th-century drummers 20th-century British male musicians Blues rock musicians {{UK-drummer-stub