Slade: Sladest
Michael Gray, Let It Rock, December 1973
SLADE REMINDS ME of 1963 not because their music is that regressive, but because the pattern is the same: Lennon-McCartney/Jagger-Richard (or Nanker-Phlenge, as they preferred in those far-off days), meet Lea-Holder.
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