Slade

Slade are a British rock band, who in the middle of the 1970s in Britain were very popular: in the years 1971 to 1973 the group had six No. 1 hits, including the last three (Cum on Feel the noize , Skweeze me pleeze me and Merry Xmas everybody ) all from scratch landed on the top spot. Slade came from the Middle English industrial city of Wolverhampton .

Contents

 * 1 Occupation
 * 2 History
 * 2.1 Comeback
 * 3 Singers
 * 4 Hitoverzicht
 * 4.1 Albums
 * 4.2 Singles
 * 4.3 Radio 2 Top 2000

Occupation

 * Noddy Holder, vocals and guitar
 * Dave Hill, guitar
 * Jim Lea, bass, guitar, piano, violin
 * Don Powell, drums

History
Slade began as The 'N Betweens in 1966, a typical modband . On the advice of Chas Chandler, bassist for The Animals and manager of Jimi Hendrix , the band from 1969 on as ska band Ambrose Slade, with millimeter hairstyles. The big success was however not yet there.

In early 1970 the band - from Slade then called - it was and started blues playing in a style to hard rock was on. The band was extremely popular in the clubs and scored in the summer of 1971 the first hit: Get down and get with it was number 15 in the UK charts, and number 6 in the Netherlands, thanks to the support of offshore station Radio North Sea , where the single Teasing Disk was.

Jimmy Lea thought the band could better catch the glam craze by T-Rex had started. Noddy and Dave felt that their arbeidersklasse- and blue background had to be woven in which coz I luv you made, which became an outright British number 1 hit in November 1971. Together with producer Chas Chandler had invented a sound that until 1974 was maintained: hard, easy catchy music with everyday in regional accent sung texts whose title almost phonetically was written. A row of ten top 10 hits followed in England, scoring in Europe, but the United States were not convinced, even though Merry Xmas everybody in New Yorkincluded.

Since 1974 Slade scored with songs that used another, more complex sound, Everyday , The bangin 'man, Far far away and How does it feel? (by Noel Gallagher named one of their best compositions). The last two songs were from the movie Slade in Flame on a rock band from the 60s and the downside of fame; The film was Slade's standards were too gloomy. Now the glam rock was about his peak Slade felt ready to conquer America time; the band moved for two years to the US and brought it singles out which, although tap new styles but made no impression on the general public. Even domestically Slade fell out of favor, though the album recorded after returning home Whatever happened to Slade was well received by the punk generation. Business was so bad that Dave Hill went to work as a driver at weddings; Noddy Holder was by AC / DC asked for their deceased singer Bon Scott to follow, but he hit the offerings.

Comeback
In 1980 was the year of hard rock and heavy metal which was echoing the hardcore punk, again become popular in Britain. Ultimate heavy metal festival par excellence, the Reading Festival, sought replacements for the sudden blocking band of Ozzy Osbourne . It just around the corner living Slade volunteered. To the surprise of the music press was the public from the rise of Slade already sold on the podium, not just out of nostalgia, but also by the new songs, which we'll bring the house down was an English top-ten hit.

From Lock up your daughters in 1981, the group scored hits again in Europe. Even Merry Xmas everybody was in 1983 again a hit in England, when My oh my there was number 2.

In the US, the unexpected success began when heavy metal band Quiet Riot with their version of Cum on Feel the Noize number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 was. Other hard rock groups like the Finnish Hanoi Rockswent Slade songs into their repertoire. Run Runaway became the first American hit Slade and received in 1984 the top 20.

Then success was back; Noddy did not want to tour because he was tired of all the traveling and the band inserted a break of one and a half years.

Plans to release a new album in 1990 did not go through, it appeared in 1991, the single Radio wall of sound (with a cameo appearance of BBC Radio 1 DJ Mike Read ), which was a hit at the end of that year. The week after Radio wall of sound from the hit parade was gone, Merry Xmas everybody came in again.

Noddy Holder left the band in 1991 ; he was acting and presenting programs for ITV . Jim Lea stopped in 1992 .

Dave Hill and Don Powell continued as Slade II (abbreviated in 1997. Slade) that they are still in the good old -circuit rpm; particularly in Western Europe, Scandinavia and Russia .

Noddy was in 1987 in the nobility exalted.

Singers
Noddy Holder - with his very distinctive voice - was succeeded by Steve Whalley, which, in turn, announced on 30 June 2005 Slade exit. His successor Mal McNulty (which The Sweet strengthened from 1985 in 1992).