The album was a turning point and change in the band's sound, featuring more of a hard rock sound than their previous pop record.

The album title is English (originally Royal Navy) slang originating from the murder of eight-year-old Fanny Adams in 1867 and means "nothing at all" as well as a similar euphemism "F.A."

27 on the UK Albums Chart in the year of its release by RCA Records in 1974 and No.

[5] All tracks are written by Sweet, except where noted.The late 1980s Indiana-based glam metal band Sweet F.A., which released a pair of major-label albums in 1989 and 1991, named themselves after the Sweet song.

English rock group Love and Rockets titled their 1996 album Sweet F.A.. Notes taken from the original album booklet.