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- With their unique blend of perfect pop-rock'n'roll, outrageous flamboyance and pure fun, and no less than 23 Top-20 singles of which 6 were No-1 smash hits...plus 6 smash albums, Slade have become a firm favourite in the hearts of pop fans all over the world.
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They've got some good songs but Merry Xmas Everybody is a warcrime. no. They had a huge following in the 70s and multiple number 1s, probably overrated at the time in that respect. Not sure they have aged that well along with various other glam rock bands.
Mal McNulty. Slade are an English rock band formed in Wolverhampton in 1966. They rose to prominence during the glam rock era in the early 1970s, [1] achieving 17 consecutive top 20 hits and six number ones on the UK Singles Chart.
Mar 20, 2023 · Here are their best albums. An impressive run of hits conspired to turn Slade into a national treasure, but their heritage as a rock band remains sorely under-explored. Noddy Holder and company notched up no less than 23 UK Top 20 singles during the 70s and 80s, six of which reached No.1.
- Dave Ling
- Slade Alive!
- Live at The New Victoria
- Alive at Reading!
- Live at The Hucknall Miners’ Welfare Club
- Slade on Stage
Recorded at Command Studios, London, October 1971 As future generations of musicians will probably realise only with hindsight, there’s really only one way to become a good live band, and that’s by getting out there and playing live. There’s no substitute for getting in a van, playing gigs no matter what size and to whom, and learning how to make t...
Recorded at the New Victoria Theatre, London, April 24, 1975 This previously unreleased show captures Slade at a time when Holder and Lea’s songwriting had started to take a more mature turn, via songs like How Does It Feel and Everyday. “The fans have been on at us for years to release that one,” Holder says. “It’s got tracks such as Thanks For Th...
Recorded at the Reading Festival, August 24, 1980 By the summer of 1980, three years after returning to Britain from the US, Holder admits that Slade were “pretty much on the skids”. Dave Hill had decided to leave the band. Even when the lastminute offer of a spot on the Reading Festival bill as replacement for Ozzy Osbourne’s new group Blizzard Of...
Recorded at Hucknall Miners’ Welfare Club, Nottingham, December 10, 1980 A little under four months after their unlikely triumph at Reading, Slade’s bus pulled up at a familiar location. Madison Square Garden this was not. “We used to really love that place; we played it several times, actually,” Holder remembers. “It made a really warm-up for our ...
Recorded at Newcastle City Hall, December 11, 1981 Slade documented their second spell of popularity with 10 live songs, including a thunderously loud farewell with a cover of You’ll Never Walk Alone sung by the Newcastle City Hall audience on the tour for their tenth studio album, Till Deaf Do Us Part.Its sense of communion is palpable. “Even from...
- Dave Ling
- 'Thanks For The Memory (Wham Bam Thank You Mam)' Thanks For The Memory (Wham Bam, Thank You Mam) (TV Performance) 'Thanks For The Memory ('Wham Bam Thank You Mam)' was Slade's first single release after their 1975 rock musical film Slade In Flame.
- 'Run Runaway' Slade - Run Runaway (RESTORED - SUPERSCALED TO 4K) Another single which peaked at No.7 in the UK charts, 'Run Runaway' came at a time when Slade were down on their luck.
- 'My Friend Stan' Slade - My Friend Stan (Original Promo) (1973) (HD) Slade took their rampant rock stylings down a notch with 1973 single 'My Friend Stan', the first song from their 1974 album, Old New Borrowed and Blue.
- 'Squeeze Me, Pleeze Me' Slade - Skweeze Me Pleeze Me. Inspired by seeing a local pianist perform at his local boozer, Jim Lea's penned 'Skweeze Me, Pleeze' me with Noddy Holder.
Nov 3, 2020 · By Dave Ling. ( Classic Rock ) published 3 November 2020. For a time in 1970s Slade were the most popular band in Britain. But then a car crash put the brakes on, America didn’t ‘get’ them, and as glam-rock faded so too did the band’s fortunes.
Dec 10, 2015 · Review. Slade: When Slade Rocked the World 1971-1975 box set review – more complex than they get credit for. An intriguing and surprising overview of the period when Slade were tipped to...
