Darrell Antony Sweet was a drummer

Drummer

A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

 for the Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band

Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...

, Nazareth

Nazareth (band)

Nazareth is a Scottish hard rock band, founded in 1968, that had several hits in the UK in the early 1970s, and established an international audience with their 1975 album Hair of the Dog. Perhaps their best-known hit single was a cover of the ballad "Love Hurts", in 1975...

. He was a co-founder of Nazareth, which was formed in 1968.
His early years were spent playing with The Burntisland Pipe band, also a member of the Shadettes!!

Sweet died of a heart attack

Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

 in 1999, as the band prepared to set out on the second leg of its U.S.

United States

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 tour in support of their latest album, Boogaloo. The band had arrived at Indiana

Indiana

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's New Albany

New Albany, Indiana

New Albany is a city in Floyd County, Indiana, United States, situated along the Ohio River opposite Louisville, Kentucky. In 1900, 20,628 people lived in New Albany; in 1910, 20,629; in 1920, 22,992; and in 1940, 25,414. The population was 36,372 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of...

 Amphitheater when the 51-year-old Sweet began to feel ill. Within minutes he had gone into cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...

. He was taken to Floyd Memorial Hospital in New Albany, where doctors pronounced him dead.

Sweet is survived by his wife, Marion, and their son and daughter. He was replaced in the band by Pete Agnew

Pete Agnew

Pete Agnew is the bassist for the Scottish rock band, Nazareth.Agnew has been with the band since its founding in 1968.-References:...

's son, Lee Agnew

Lee Agnew

Lee Agnew is a Scottish drummer and percussionist. He is the son of Pete Agnew. Lee Agnew worked as a drum technician for Nazareth, and when Darrell Sweet died in 1999, he became the permanent drummer of the band....

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