Slade: Dave Hill...King Of The Stompers
Anne Moore, Fan, July 1974
SLADE HAS come a long way since their early skinhead days. Yet to this world-famous group everything they have done in the past, all those hard days of struggle, was just a preparation for the success they now enjoy.
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