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Review by Jon Tiven, Rolling Stone, 12 October 1972
DESPITE WHAT you may have heard of "skinhead rock" or "Seventies teddies", Slade is exactly the opposite of a gimmick band. You’ll not find synthesizers, ...
Slade: Slade In Flame (Polydor)
Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, February 1975
Some things I'm sure of: Noddy Holder is a great rock singer, up there with the best of British, with John Lennon, even. And Slade ...
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Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, May 1975
The Black Country glam-rockers discuss their struggle to break the States; the importance to them of Top Of The Pops; their first hit 'Get Down and Get With It'; singles versus albums; their Yuletide No. 1 'Merry Xmas Everybody'; Slade Alive!; looking back on their skinhead phase, and meeting manager Chas Chandler for the first time.
File format: mp3; file size: 41mb, interview length: 42' 43" sound quality: ***
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"Clapton was the first skinhead!" say Slade
Interview by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 25 October 1969
THEY LOOKED wrong. There they were, four merry little skinheads sprawled across deep Georgian chairs in one of those plush offices off Oxford Street. ...
Interview by Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 17 July 1971
THE BOOTS and braces, brawn and bovver image, worked fine for a time, but now Slade are loath to talk about their Skinhead image. But ...
Slade: Bovver Boys Who Grew Their Hair And Got A Hit
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 17 July 1971
SLADE, BRITAIN'S first skinhead band — were launched just over a year ago in the true tradition of eye-catching pop publicity. But the implications of ...
Slade: When Their Hair Finally Grew
Interview by 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 ...
How Slade's image caused them bovver
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 13 November 1971
THE SKINHEAD era worked two ways on Slade — who had become the first group of the skinhead kind. It brought them to the attention ...
Live Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 12 February 1972
ONE OF THE MOST ADVENTUROUS BILLS EVER ...
Melody Maker Band Breakdown: Slade
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 4 March 1972
UNLIKE MANY of the groups currently enjoying chart success with hit singles, Slade have been in the game a long time. ...
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 25 March 1972
SLADE: BRASH, RAW, FLASHY — AND GREAT ...
Like Wow, What A Week That Was!
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 24 September 1972
DIARY OF A ROCK WRITER, instalment two, or why-does-it-all-have-to-happen-in-one-week? ...
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, 1 October 1972
SLADE HAVE BEEN responsible for some excellent singles, but as for this album, forget it. ...
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, 1 October 1972
THIS IS ONE of the best live albums I’ve ever heard. Mike Saunders is out of his mind. ...
Review by Lester Bangs, Phonograph Record, 1 October 1972
GOOD FOR SLADE. They made it at last. These guys have been kicking around the Limey lard-tub for a little while now, garnering a fan ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 7 October 1972
Chris Charlesworth talks to CHAS CHANDLER, ex-docker, ex-Animal, ex-manager of Jimi Hendrix and now manager of Britain's hottest band, Slade ...
Report and Interview by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, November 1972
WHEN A GROUP PUTS out five or more singles in their first year, hits the upper regions of the Top Ten with each of them, ...
Slade: Steamroller Rock Knocks 'Em Flat
Profile and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Rolling Stone, 1 February 1973
LONDON – Noddy gets the fans shouting, clapping, stomping, throwing their bras and knickers up on stage. Dave looks inhuman, silver from head to toe, ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 17 February 1973
Noddy's fans like football, beer, sex and Slade — in any order. So does Noddy. That's what makes him a true working-class hero ...
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 24 February 1973
HE COMES ON stage with Slade like an over-decorated, perambulating Christmas tree – smothered in silver-stars, gold and glitter from head to toe – but ...
Review by Charlie Gillett, Let It Rock, March 1973
Rock and roll at its very best, today. Which is not the same thing as rock 'n' roll at its very best in 1956, as ...
Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 1 March 1973
ON THEIR HOME continent, Slade are virtually indestructible: singles launched like tank mortars into the Euro-Top Ten at selected intervals, live appearances turned to massive ...
Review by Greg Shaw, Creem, April 1973
PEOPLE SOMETIMES ask why a serious, well-educated, intellectual fellow such as me wastes his time and enthusiasm on the most insignificant passing trends and the ...
A Rock Critic's Rough and Reddy Life
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 29 April 1973
THE LIFE of a rock and roll writer, as I have said all too often before, is not all sunshine and roses. The Friday night ...
Slade: Santa Monica Civic, Los Angeles
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Music World, June 1973
SLADE, WHOM many anticipated to be an important new breath of life in the rock world, was slain by its own device here at the ...
Slade: Santa Monica Civic, Santa Monica CA
Live Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, June 1973
SLADE'S PREMIER headlining appearance, coming on the crest of the most explosive streak of singles since the 1965-7 Who, and the equally earthshaking SLAYED album, was as ...
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 2 June 1973
Will Slade break America or will America break Slade – that was the question being resolved by the Noddy Holder Experience as they ...
Report by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 30 June 1973
ANDREW TYLER Investigates the growing thuggery in concert halls the world over. And gets points of view from the stars, bouncers and the companies who ...
Slade, Sensational Alex Harvey Band: Earls Court, London
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 7 July 1973
IT'S MONDAY morning and my ears are still ringing. The night before, I'd been among the 20,000 fans who packed London's Earls Court to prove ...
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 7 July 1973
Far more so than all the Bowies, Bolans and Roxies... Slade are easily the most important British band of the '70s. ...
Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 22 September 1973
Keith Altham gets a sneak preview at the next original Slade Album ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 29 September 1973
THE FIRST TIME I saw Slade I thought they were dreadful. It was that memorable night at the Lanchester Arts Festival when Chuck Berry cut ...
Report and Interview by Lester Bangs, Let It Rock, October 1973
I'VE NEVER SEEN anything like it, though you may have. The kids come jostling in and pack the halls every time. Two or three thousand ...
Slade: America Feels The Noize
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 3 November 1973
NO COMPROMISE says Noddy. No compromise at all. America will just have to go crazee, feel the noize and get their boots off Just like ...
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, New Musical Express, 10 November 1973
THIS TIME around, Slade are making a dent in the American market. Armed with a new record company and determined to knock 'em dead, the ...
Profile and Interview by Anne Moore, Los Angeles Free Press, 23 November 1973
AS STREET TALK goes, Slade doesn't have the greatest reputations. It is admitted they are one of the better non-Bowieish-type rock groups to come out ...
Review by 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 ...
School Leaver Assignment: Dave Hill Exclusive
Interview by Miranda Ward, School Leaver, 1974
Head Puts The Block On Slade!? ...
Slade: Ambassador Theater, St. Louis, MO
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 16 February 1974
ST LOUIS: The wide Missouri River flowed beneath the hotel window and a few paddle steamers, now tourist traps or floating restaurants, were securely tied ...
Slade: Hill Junior marches in, heats his hands at the fire and turns to warm his bum
Report and Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 16 February 1974
Was this Dave Hill's reaction to DISC'S awards? ...
Interview by Anne Moore, Valley Advocate, 20 March 1974
THE ROLLING STONES of the 70s or working-class slobs, that's what Slade are usually called. Both are apt descriptions of Slade. It merely depends on ...
Slade: Stomp Your Hands And Clap Your Feet
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, April 1974
I've been behind Slade's records 100% since I first heard them, but with this album the backing percentage has doubled. It's a terrific album, with ...
Fashion: The Politics of Flash
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 6 April 1974
NICK KENT traces the Rise and Fall of The Satin Jacket...and generally walks it like he talks it into the land of 'Rock Chic.' ...
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, June 1974
THE AMBASSADOR THEATRE in Saint Louis has held its place in history since the 1920's as a grand old movie palace built in Hollywood's early ...
Slade: Dave Hill...King Of The Stompers
Interview by 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 ...
Slade: Your Public Is Your Judge
Interview by 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: Not As Crazee As Wee Thought
Interview by Kris DiLorenzo, Good Times, 26 August 1975
WHATEVER HAPPENED to Slade, you Lawn Guyland boogie freaks may have asked yourselves lately. The answer is: Nothing – more gold records, more #1 songs ...
Review by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 25 September 1975
POOR SLADE. The biggest band in England for a while and in the States they couldn't get arrested. Last time out, they toned down and ...
Book Excerpt by Mick Gold, 'Rock on the Road' (Futura), 1976
THE IDEA OF doing a book of photo-essays about live music was sparked by a desire to examine two areas: what the job of being ...
Slade: Ar The Kidz Owt've Site Shock Probe
Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 7 May 1977
BANDS DON'T readily admit to being yesterday's heroes...so Slade, not long ago one of Britain's most celebrated bands, will only acknowledge that they've been through ...
The Glitter Era: Teenage Rampage
Overview by Ken Barnes, Bomp!, March 1978
JUST THREE YEARS gone and it already seems so quaint. The time was c. 1971-1974, the place England, the sound "glitter," or "Glitter Rock." ...
Slade: Slade On Stage (RCA) *****
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 11 December 1982
"'TWAS CHRISTMAS Day in the Workhouse, the radio was at full blast, when up jumped an old age pensioner with a face like a lump ...
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1983
"The fans are fed up with paying to sit on their hands while watching musicians who clearly couldn't care less about the customers." Thus commented ...
Slade: Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, June 1984
HERE IS NODDY HOLDER, raspy lead singer of Slade, putting a move on a member of the opposite sex: "You want equality/You won't get none ...
Report and Interview by Paul Yamada, Concert News, July 1984
I'VE SEEN SLADE three times; this time makes the fourth. I went out of my way to see them the other times, and each trip ...
Obituary by Chris Welch, The Independent, 17 July 1996
WHEN JIMI Hendrix set fire to his guitar, Chas Chandler was ready with the lighter fuel. When Slade were desperate for a new image, Chandler ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, 1999
29 JULY 1974. Filming begins on the rock movie Slade In Flame, on location in the UK. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Chapman, unpublished, 2002
LET'S PLAY how to be hip. The rules go something like this. MC5 plus gritty urban Detroit plus White Panther polemic equals street cred and ...
Interview by John Robb, City Life, June 2002
I'M STILL FEELING the noise. Slade are so much part of British culture. They were the quintessential hard rocking band with a neat line in ...
Retrospective by Bob Stanley, The Times, 21 March 2003
Thirty years on, the forgotten stars of glam rock are shining again. ...
Sleeve notes by Chris Charlesworth, Polydor Records, 2005
IT IS JULY 1971 and I'm with Slade in Amsterdam's Vondelpark where they are shortly to perform on a bandstand in the centre of a ...
Nirvana: Live At Reading and other live albums
Review by James Medd, The Word, December 2009
They keep saying this is the golden age of live music. So why don't live albums sound as good as they used to? Nirvana: Live At ...
Various Artists: Oh Yes We Can Love – A History Of Glam Rock
Sleeve notes by Barney Hoskyns, Universal Records, August 2013
GLAMOUR HAS always been pivotal to pop music. Elvis Presley was Glam, and so were Little Richard ('Ooh My Soul') and Billy Fury ('Jealousy'). The ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 21 July 2016
Rock writer turned broadcasting executive who did much to reinvigorate BBC radio comedy. ...
Dave Hill: So Here It Is (Unbound)
Book Review by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, 22 December 2017
THE EXCLAMATION mark in biography is a peculiar thing. It leaps from the page like a spark from a bomb, but it is jollier, perkier, ...
'Children of the Revolution': Glam Rock and the '70s
Essay by Toby Manning, New Socialist, 16 October 2021
Glam, in all its queer, communal, proletarian glory, is the soundtrack to a militant '70s that we must reclaim for the left. ...
Daryl Easlea: Whatever Happened To Slade? When The Whole World Went Crazee (Omnibus)
Book Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, November 2023
AT LAST! At last an author with insight, sympathy and commitment has written a substantial book about Slade that dissects the highs and lows of ...
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