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Slade: Your Public Is Your Judge

Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 19 October 1974

THEY CAME out of Wolverhampton. Failed skinheads who became the loudest, most aggressive stomping band in the land. A year ago nobody questioned it – Slade ruled, no argument. They produced some great storming singles to occupy the number one spot which was automatically served for them.

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