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Slade: When Their Hair Finally Grew

Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 14 August 1971

"A YEAR AGO a lot of people back home walked on the other side of the street if they saw us coming so they didn't have to talk to us," says Dave Hill, never-ever serious lead guitarist of Slade. "But now with 'Get Down And Get With It' in the chart, they come up to us in the street, shake our hands and say things like 'How you doing mate? Nice to see ya.'"

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