Andrew David Scott was born June 30, 1949 in Wrexham, Wales.

Andy was in a band called SilverStone when he was 15/16 that won Opportunity Knocks, the Huey Green thing. They were like a sixties Soul band with saxes and a drummer who was also the lead singer, doing Mose Alison, a bit of Otis Redding, Joe Tex, what he considers to be good soul. There were a lot of those bands up North and they seemed to be the lifeblood of the music business. They were very fortunate in 1967, to be the support act for Jimi Hendrix in Manchester. The SilverStone band then came the Elastic Band and that happened immediately after seeing Jimi Hendrix. He was a bass player when he first started but he could also play guitar - he used to show the guitarist in SilverStone what he should be playing, the Steve Cropper bits, things like that.

And they were very lucky, they got a record deal with Deram and Decca and that was good until the lead singer left to replace Stevie Ellis in The Love Affair, so Andy's brother and himself and the drummer, became the Scaffold's backing band for a while.

After that, Andy's brother and Andy went to London and Andy went to 2 auditions on the same day. The first was the Alan Bounds Set, because Jess Roden had just left, and the other was the Sweet and he was only 19 by that time and was offered the job to replace Mick Stewart.

Andy's first gig with the Sweet was 26.09.1970 at The Windsor Ballroom Redcar in UK and Andy remembers it very well.

Musically Andy is a brilliant guitar player and composer and during the seventies he really proved his talent. 

Andy did really never quit The Sweet, during the 80's after Brian and a couple of years later Steve had left, he and Mick continued touring with The Sweet. There was a small break for a couple of years, but they went on and when Mick had to leave Sweet in 1991 due to ilness, Andy continued without any break and is still touring and making music today.

For the last 15 years he has been touring almost constantly and Sweet have visited Denmark and Europe many times and they have also toured Australia and Russia.

Thanks Andy for keeping The Sweet alive !