'Love is Like Oxygen' 2024 - The Red Balloon - An 'ALL STAR JAM'

"Love is Like Oxygen" (The Sweet) - new arrangement 2024
with "The Red Balloon"- a short film - (1956)
An All Star Jam
Produced by Barry Sparks
Mixed by Terry Brown

Featuring :
Barry Sparks (M.S.G, Dokken , U.F.O., Ted Nugent) - bass guitar, 12 string guitar, mandolin, electric guitar and backing vocals
Andy Scott (The Sweet) - classical guitar ( middle section)
JOHN NORUM (Europe, Dokken, Solo Artist) - lead guitars
Gilby Clarke (Guns 'n' Roses ) - rhythm guitar
Simon Phillips (The Who, Toto, etc.) - drums
Tony Carey (Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Solo Artist) - moog keyboard solos and mellotrons
Steve Mann (The Sweet, M.S.G.) - piano and keyboards
Mark Wood - electric and acoustic violins
Steven Bentley Klein - violin and string sections
James Durbin ("American Idol", Quiet Riot) - lead vocals, backing vocals
Michael Voss (Michael Schenker Group) - lead and backing vocals
Derek Sharp (The Guess Who) - backing vocals
Frederik Akesson (Opeth) - classical guitar on the outro section
John Helliwell (Supertramp) - Saxophone

All extra musical pieces written by Barry Sparks

All these exceptional musicians worked together to record this fabulous version of this legendary classic song by the band THE SWEET. This performance includes a very special cameo appearance by Andy Scott (The Sweet), playing his iconic classical guitar melody (middle of the song).
The extended outro of the song includes fantastic guitar playing from Swedish guitar legend JOHN NORUM, the amazing violin player
Mark Wood, John Helliwell's wonderful sax playing and keyboard wizard Tony Carey's awesome moog solos along with James Durbin's amazing vocals.

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Norwegian/Swedish hard rock and blues guitarist and singer. Solo Artist and founder/axeman in the Swedish band Europe

[checcalight]

This is EPIC!!! Fabulous job everyone! 🎈🎸🔝👑🔥

[FranzFarber-yp]

well done good job to all, one of my all time favourite songs

[robhanhart]

Very nice version!! I'm a Sweet fan for more than 50 years...

[JulioCesar-iqhs]

Bravo, un gran guitarrista, lo sigo desde que estaba en EUROPE...GENIAL EL ARREGLO.

[enadias]

❤❤❤❤❤‼️🎬 obrigada pelo vídeo 🙋🎈🎥 filme 🎈❤ BALÃO 🎈 VERMELHO 🥰❤️❤️❤️😘😘 JOHN 🎸 NORUM 🙏 FANTASTIC ♥️ JOHN ♥️🇸🇪❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[jockekilenstam]

Woke up to this surprise on my 55 th birthday. What a great gift to watch and listen to this. Brian Conollys great voice comes to my mind when I heard it. Great choice and fine work John! Andy in here too🎉

[СветланаТарасова-лж]

❤️❤️❤️ Пусть, удача сопутствует, нам, на нашем, пути .Радости и удачи, нам, асем.💖💗💓🖐🎈

[fraukebraunschmidt]

that's just awsome - wow - it made my day ! ❤

[moreheff]

Shame Andy's guitar part is not more defined and would have been nice to give him a little more to do but still a nice tribute to him and the rest of the original Sweet RIP Brian, Mick and Steve 💗

[wendychivell]

Well done John norum God bless you guys my friend God bless your beautiful wife my friend good song John norum I love your music my friend

[andybradford]

16 minutes plus a pure heaven what a great production helped embarrassing the CD single

[lecturehc]

BEAUTIFUL! Adds so much the original without sacrificing any of the authenticity, just beautiful.

[billpeirce]

Where can this be steamed or downloaded in 192? I’d love a vinyl 45 rpm version.

[JPLoppersum]

Fantastic! A masterpiece. This is superb, you really go above and beyond!!! ❤❤❤👍👍👍🎈🎈🎈🙋‍♂️🇾🇪

[rodpope]

Not sure how I feel about this. Get that it is an all-star project and an otherwise good cover am not sure why Andy wouldn't have been asked to do more than just the acoustic piece. Not knocking it - just digesting it.

[folginator]

Umm…. I know you lot seem to love this, judging by the comments. But while I appreciate the effort, I had to stop listening as soon as the lead vocals came in. Sorry guys it’s not for me.