>> I saw Mud and The Sweet perform together in Oxford, it must have been around
>> 1990 I think. Perhaps a year or two earlier.
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>> Les Gray was drunk as a skunk, and everybody's performance had suffered with age. But
>> it was a damned good evening.
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I recall a lovely story about Les Gray and Brian Connolly, lead singer of the Sweet; probably from around that time. Gray apparently suffered terribly from psoriasis, and Connolly, a heavy drinker, had DT's. The pair were apparently known as "Shake and Vac".
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