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From Roots To Boots: The Slade Story
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From Roots To Boots! The Slade Story: December 1972. New Musical Express, Xmas 1972. 1972 was a good year for Slade and December closed it well for them. As well as their sell out UK tour, a Far East tour in a few weeks and a request from the Prime Minister to headline the 'Fanfare For Europe'. They also had the UK charts firmly under their belt. Their album and the latest single both sat high in the Top Ten of the NME charts over the Xmas weeks. Gudbuy T'Jane. December 23rd, 1972. December 30th, 1972.
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From Roots To Boots: The Slade Story
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From Roots To Boots! The Slade Story: January 1972. New Musical Express, January 29th, 1972. THE BERRY, SLADE, FLOYD SOUND SCOOP. IN JOURNALISTIC terms, the LAF committee have a first-class scoop exclusive on Thursday, February 3. Not only do they present the only British appearance of Chuck Berry, one of the great influences of rock over 20 years, but the only college appearance of Pink Floyd, who are at present on a British tour. As if that isn’t enough, we also have Billy Preston and Slade. Berry, who...
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From Roots To Boots: The Slade Story
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From Roots To Boots! The Slade Story: The Sundowners. Fleet Castle, Devon 4th April 1946. Is the only member of Slade that was not Black Country born. He was a year old when his parents moved from Devon, to Wolverhampton. Born of Jack and Dorothy. David went to Springfield Infants and Warstones Primary before attending Highfields Secondary Modern. He was a bit of a troublemaker prior to taking up the guitar. As is normal with the vertically challenged, he used his capable wit and made few. Was also in th...
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From Roots To Boots: The Slade Story
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From Roots To Boots! The Slade Story: May 1971. Get Down And Get With It EP 1971. Polydor Records 2058 112. The band had built up a following on the live circuit playing their own versions of obscure U.S. R&B records. In 1969, when they were signed up by Chas Chandler. They changed their name and image to that of "Britain’s first skinhead band,” but it wasn't until 1971, when they released their version of an obscure Bobby Marchan. Track entitled Get Down With It. SLADE (Get Down And Get With It). Both d...
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From Roots To Boots: The Slade Story
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From Roots To Boots! The Slade Story: July 1971. From Dundee - the Sleaz Band. Visually, you couldn't forget them (ZZ Top must have caught their act). And the music was hard rock at its finest. In 1971 there were 163 gigs or more - supporting Medicine Head, Poets, Joyce Bond Revue, String Driven Thing, Slade. There were 156 gigs in 1972 between Jan 2nd and Oct 28th. Once again supporting various names such as Alex Harvey (Pre Sensational). Playing the 'Giants Of Tomorrow'. Posted by Mickey P. During thei...
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It's All Just Morris Dancing...: January 2011
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It's All Just Morris Dancing. Thursday, January 27, 2011. Part 2a - I’m Ready Now So What The Heck…(cont.). While I was writing my last blog post I needed to do some research into dates and came across a couple of websites that I wanted to let you know about. Firstly www.slayed.co.uk. Which was where I discovered the dates I was looking for. If you're at all a fan of SLADE this is a great site packed with info. What's all that about? Well as Dave Kemp himself says:. So there I was rummaging through Dave'...
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From Roots To Boots: The Slade Story
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From Roots To Boots! The Slade Story: January 1971. Beverley Hills, Los Angeles, USA. He's got 43 gold discs and has worked with the Byrds. And many other artists, he's discovered more million-selling artists than Slade. Have made spelling mistakes. Kim has made millions of dollars, lost them, regained them and mislaid them again. He was B. Bumble and the Stingers. He worked with the Raiders. And saw Leon Rusell. Stand in as Paul when Mark Lindsey. And "Popsicles and Icicles.". And gave them their name.
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From Roots To Boots: The Slade Story
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From Roots To Boots! The Slade Story: June 1972. New Musical Express June 24th 1972. Exclusive Interview by Keith Altham. 8220;We represent a new Age. If people think we’re musical dunces it’s because they’re out of touch”. One of the more popular misconceptions usually aired behind Slade's back is that they are no more than a bunch of overgrown skinheads with little to recommend them other than a vulgar stage act and a few prefabricated and very basic hit singles. Said Noddy who is nothing if not frank.