Slade

Norman_Conquest

Norman_Conquest

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I've just come across this documentary on Slade. I loved Slade when I was a kid and every now and again I will whack them on Spotify and listen to them. I don't think they ever took themselves seriously but had some classic hits and at one time were one of the biggest bands in Britain.

Does your granny always tell you that the old songs are the best.

This isn't a bad watch if you liked them.


 
The first time I bought records with my own money, I got Sladest (which is brilliant) and Roxy Music. I think I bought with Birthday money, so it would have been around October 1973. I was 11. I'll be honest, I didn't play the Roxy album much at first...much more into Sladest. I quite liked the folky/reflective stuff on that album. I probably didn't understand the Roxy Music album for another year or two at least. "If There Is Something" became one of my all time favourite songs.
 
since1970 said:
As an 11 year-old I had a birthday money choice between buying Sladest or The Osmond's The Plan LP's.

Fifty years on, sheer embarrassment still prevents me from revealing which one I chose!
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WWow, that's weird, you were posting this as I was writing about mine. Birthday in late september?
 
They were massive when I just started buying records. They would release a single and every one in our class would seem to buy it.
I think one of the Gallagher's said 'slade are a great band but they dress like the diddy men'. 😃
 
NorthumberlandBoro said:
They were massive when I just started buying records. They would release a single and every one in our class would seem to buy it.
I think one of the Gallagher's said 'slade are a great band but they dress like the diddy men'. 😃
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With our check shirts, braces, half-mast jeans with a huge turn up and a pair of bovver boots, we all looked like the Diddy Men. 🤣

Noel speaks highly of Slade and loves track 13 of their Greatest Hits.

 
Noddy and Dave Hill still friends (Noddy is also one of Mark Radcliffe's best mates alongside Roy Wood) and Nod's wife posted this last year. He looks good, and from what I've heard a real decent fella too.

www.expressandstar.com

New photograph of Noddy Holder and Dave Hill sparks Slade reunion speculation

This photograph of Noddy Holder and Dave Hill having lunch together has sparked fresh speculation that a reunion may be in the works.
www.expressandstar.com www.expressandstar.com
 
A friend of mine wrote this book which comes out in a couple of weeks. All proper Slade fans will want to read it.

Daryl is an absolute Oracle when it comes to music, what he doesn't know isn't worth knowing. He often pops up on the TV shows, "The Nations Favourite (enter artist name) Song" etc among others, he's been a music journalist for years.

 
First saw them at the Redcar Jazz club. They were supposed to support DaDa who featured Elkie Brooks and Robert Palmer before they changed their name to Vinegar Joe. Slades van broke down so they came on last. It was around the time of the Play It Loud album(which for me is still their best album) and they were just morphing from the skinhead look they had on the album cover to what became more recognisable as Slade. They were phenomenal. Saw them at Reading, Rock Garden and Fiesta amongst others but that was the best. They finished with the then unreleased Get Down Get With It.
 
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