Slade – Roach Daddy
Oldies Songs A Forgotten Garage Rock Gem: The Scrappy, Pre-Glam Rock Drama of a Band Searching for Their Sonic Identity on the Cusp of a New Decade. Before the platform shoes, the…
Slade – I’m A Rocker
The Raw, Defiant Roar of a Band That Refused to Fade, Celebrating the Indestructible Spirit of Rock and Roll Itself. The late 1970s: for those who loved the unbridled, glammed-up,…
Slade – Hey Ho Wish You Well
Slade’s Hey Ho Wish You Well A Snapshot of Mid Eighties Rock from Rogues Gallery Slade’s performance of Hey Ho Wish You Well, as seen in the official 1985 video,…
Slade – Knocking Nails Into My House
An Uneasy Toytown Nightmare: This Cover Track Reveals the Untapped Psych-Pop Melancholy Lurking Beneath a Future Glam-Rock Titan. Before the platform shoes, before the mirror balls, and long before they…
Slade – Raining In My Champagne
The Tragic Glamour of Fame: A Ballad That Stripped the Glitter Off the Great Slade Party For those of us who lived through the glorious, anarchic chaos of the early…
Slade – Let The Good Times Roll / Feel So Fine
A Glorious, Unapologetic Shout for Decadence and Joy that Caps the Definitive Glam Rock Statement In 1972, at the white-hot zenith of the glitter-drenched, stomp-heavy Glam Rock era, four working-class…
Slade – Heaven Knows
A Soaring, Melancholy Lament for Lost Innocence and the Corrupting Glare of Stardom. The year is 1974. Slade were, quite simply, the most electrifying phenomenon in British rock, a band…
Slade – Martha My Dear
A Deceptively Tender Serenade to Man’s Best Friend There are songs that wear their hearts on their sleeves, and then there are those that hold a secret, a private joke…
Slade – Keep on Rocking
A Raw, Unadulterated Anthem of Rock ‘n’ Roll Resilience and Raucous Joy. Oh, to be back in the early seventies, a time when rock music wasn’t a carefully polished product…
Slade – Miles Out to Sea
An emotional reflection on the wild, surreal distance fame can create. The year was 1974. For those of us who lived through the glorious, glitter-drenched, yet strangely grounding era of…