Off the Record (Sweet album)

Off the Record
Studio album by
Sweet
ReleasedMarch 1977 (1977-03)
8 April 1977 (1977-04-08) (US)
October 1977 (1977-10) (Yugoslavia)
Recorded4–8 October 1976
StudioAudio International Studios, London
Genre
Length38:32 (original)
41:37 (US)
LabelRCA
Capitol (US)
ProducerSweet
Sweet chronology
Give Us a Wink
(1976) 		Off the Record
(1977) 		The Golden Greats
(1977)
Singles from Off the Record
  1. "Lost Angels"
    Released: 14 October 1976 (1976-10-14) (Germany)
    15 October 1976 (1976-10-15)
    October 1976 (1976-10) (France, Spain)
    November 1976 (1976-11) (Italy)
    1977 (1977) (MX)
  2. "Fever of Love"
    Released: February 1977 (1977-02) (Belgium, Italy, Spain)
    25 February 1977 (1977-02-25)
    28 February 1977 (1977-02-28) (Germany)
    13 April 1977 (1977-04-13) (US)
    June 1977 (1977-06) (Yugoslavia)
    1977 (1977) (Japan)
  3. "Funk it Up"
    Released: July 1977 (1977-07)
    26 August 1977 (1977-08-26) (US & MX)
  4. "Stairway to the Stars"
    Released: 29 July 1977 (1977-07-29)
    August 1977 (1977-08) (Germany, Belgium, Spain)
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Off the Record is the fifth studio album by British glam rock band Sweet, released in March 1977 through RCA.

The band produced it with assistance from engineers Louis Austin and Nick Ryan. The album peaked at No. 151 on the Billboard 200 on 14 May 1977.

"Stairway to the Stars" was withheld from the RCA album release and later issued as a single as a follow-up to "Lost Angels" and "Fever of Love". All three singles proved to be commercial flops (except some countries like Sweden, Germany, Austria, South Africa, and Denmark, where all or some broke the top 10 and 20).

The German power metal act Gamma Ray covered "Lost Angels" on their 2013 Master of Confusion EP.

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