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SWEET, BUT NO PATOOTIE, BUB

Rachel Sweet is a 17-year-old Akronite. Her new album Protect The Innocent includes the songs “New Age,” by Lou Reed, and “New Rose,” by the Damned, among others. You may read the following, and say to yourself, “She’s only 17! She has an album!” Sorry, guy, she’s got two. Rachel Sweet started in showbiz when she was six-years-old.

May 1, 1980
Mark J. Norton

SWEET, BUT NO PATOOTIE, BUB

RACHEL SWEET

by

Mark J. Norton

Rachel Sweet is a 17-year-old Akronite. Her new album Protect The Innocent includes the songs “New Age,” by Lou Reed, and “New Rose,” by the Damned, among others.

You may read the following, and say to yourself, “She’s only 17! She has an album!” Sorry, guy, she’s got two.

Rachel Sweet started in showbiz when she was six-years-old. She sang commercials until she was 10. From the age of 10, she opened shows for the likes of Bill Cosby and Mickey Rodney, until she was 12. At 12, Rachel sang country & western until she was 15. From 15 on, it was rock ’n’ roll. At 16, she landed a contract with Stiff Records, played the Bottom Line with the successful “Be Stiff’ tour in late 1978, and we caught up with her at CBS for this quick interview.

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