Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"Little Willy\" is a song written by songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman and performed by the British glam rock band The Sweet, released in 1972 from the album The Sweet. It was released in the United States in May 1973, and became Sweet's biggest hit in the United States, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.Little Willy is often considered a pop song like Sweet's earlier singles, but the song features a somewhat distorted guitar riff (based on power chords of E-A-B-E throughout the song until the ending one-step up modulation), making it an important step between Sweet's earlier pop style to their later glam/hard rock style. Despite the fact that \"Little Willy\" was somewhat less bubblegum than their previous singles, Sweet disliked the song, and according to Nicky Chinn, Sweet had called \"Little Willy\" \"a bunch of shit\" and insisted that it shouldn't be released.This is the last single on which Steve Priest, Andy Scott, and Mick Tucker didn't perform, as on this \"Little Willy\" and all singles released prior featured producer Phil Wainman on drums, and session musicians John Roberts and Pip Williams on bass and guitars respectively.\"Little Willy\" was used extensively in the pilot of the television series \"Life on Mars\"."@en }
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- Little_Willy_(song) abstract "\"Little Willy\" is a song written by songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman and performed by the British glam rock band The Sweet, released in 1972 from the album The Sweet. It was released in the United States in May 1973, and became Sweet's biggest hit in the United States, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.Little Willy is often considered a pop song like Sweet's earlier singles, but the song features a somewhat distorted guitar riff (based on power chords of E-A-B-E throughout the song until the ending one-step up modulation), making it an important step between Sweet's earlier pop style to their later glam/hard rock style. Despite the fact that \"Little Willy\" was somewhat less bubblegum than their previous singles, Sweet disliked the song, and according to Nicky Chinn, Sweet had called \"Little Willy\" \"a bunch of shit\" and insisted that it shouldn't be released.This is the last single on which Steve Priest, Andy Scott, and Mick Tucker didn't perform, as on this \"Little Willy\" and all singles released prior featured producer Phil Wainman on drums, and session musicians John Roberts and Pip Williams on bass and guitars respectively.\"Little Willy\" was used extensively in the pilot of the television series \"Life on Mars\".".