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What happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? [1]

['Bob Knetzger']

Date: 2024-06-07  

They were a huge group in the 70s. Their songs "You Made Me So Very Happy," "Spinning Wheel," and "And When I Die" were the very soundtrack of the early decade.

And then…? Gone.

The documentary "What The Hell Happened to BS&T?" answers the question with current-day interviews and plenty of previously suppressed period footage. The short answer is they got steamrollered by a US State Department-sponsored tour of Romania, but the long answer adds music business machinations, hazards of sudden stardom, band politics, and backlash from both the lefties like Abbie Hoffman and right-wing pols, like President Nixon and Henry Kissinger.

Hey, man, it was the 70s!

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