Slade

Founder, band leader, business, Coliseum, Coliseum 2.

Don Powell, Slade, he's an important guy, founding member, continuity kind of thing.

Not exactly principal songwriter, but foundational in that band.

Dave Clark, Dave Clark 5, drummer, band leader.

namely that of a rock chick known for wearing leathers and portraying the wild image of the 1970s glam rock era.

In 1972, I went on tour with the band Thin Lizzy and Slade, and the following year I released my self-titled debut album.

It had several hits on it, all of which sold over a million copies, but I'm not going to tell you what they are just yet.

Curiously, I had more success in the UK, Australia and parts of Europe than I did back home in the United States.

Founder, band leader, business, Coliseum, Coliseum 2.

Don Powell, Slade, he's an important guy, founding member, continuity kind of thing.

Not exactly principal songwriter, but foundational, you know, in that band.

Dave Clark, Dave Clark 5, drummer, band leader.

Yeah.

Alright, so my number four is Santa Claus is coming to town by Slade It's just a fun song You know, it's it's a harder edge.

It's kind of late 70s rock ish which is I love as well and it's just aggressive but fun, but it's still that that style that Barry Gordy kind of orchestrated for you know with the funk brothers back when the Jackson 5 did it, you know and It's just sung by a very almost punkish group there.

Yeah, that was probably number 15 or 16 for me.

I loved Slade.

Yeah.

Same thing.

There's so many good things out there.

Mick Ralph, the band's lead guitarist before his departure to form Bad Company, played with a directness that prefigured the stripped down rock that was coming.

On the harder rocking end of glam, Slade, often undervalued outside Britain, produced some of the era's most gleefully loud guitar work.

Dave Hill's lead playing was never elegant, but Slade's commitment to sheer sonic impact, audible in Come On, Feel the Noise of 73, later an even bigger hit for Quiet Riot, pointed toward the attitude that American hair metal would adopt a decade later.

Meanwhile, in the pubs of London, something else was quietly germinating.

Pub Rock.

songs,

that's not really what you'd expected from, you know, when they were supporting Slade.

It's not what the audience would have expected, really, the Slade fans.

But, you know, it was just one of these things that, you know, stick with me, guys.

I think we've got a way forward here.

You know, I think there's probably an element of probably blokeishness about them, but they wouldn't take any rubbish from anybody.

And the story, which you

probably heard before, is when they were supporting Slade.