The band, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, originally consisted of vocalist Nick Gilder, guitarist Jim McCulloch, bassist Budd Marr, keyboardist Dan Gaudin and drummer John Booth.
1 hit in Canada, holding the top position in the RPM national singles chart for three weeks beginning on June 26, 1976,[1][2][3] and winning a Juno Award for the band.
In 2007, Sweeney Todd — along with ex-vocalist Nick Gilder — headlined the Golden Spike Days Festival in Port Moody, British Columbia.
He would leave the band to embark on a solo career with Jim Vallance; his most successful album to date is Reckless, having sold 12 million copies.
Christopher then went into film scoring, including the pornographic film Angels of Passion, whose song "Ulterior Motives", a collaboration with his twin brother Philip, would become a notable example of Lostwave, when a viral internet search ensued on sites such as WatZatSong and Reddit in the early 2020s under the title "Everyone Knows That (Ulterior Motives)".