About
Slade are an English rock band formed in Wolverhampton in 1966. They rose to prominence during the glam rock era in the early 1970s, achieving 17 consecutive top 20 hits and six number ones on the UK Singles Chart. The British Hit Singles & Albums names them the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles. They were the first act to have three singles enter the charts at number one; all six of the band’s chart-toppers were penned by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea. As of 2006, total UK sales stood at over 6,500,000. Their best-selling single, “Merry Xmas Everybody”, sold in excess of one million copies. According to the 1999 BBC documentary It’s Slade, the band have sold more than 50 million records worldwide.
Albums/Songs:
- Slade Smashes
- Rogues Gallery
- Whatever Happened to Slade
- Nobody’s Fools
- The Story of Slade, Volume Two
- Slade’s Greats
- Keep On Rockin!
- Sladest
- Till Deaf Do Us Part
- Slade
- The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome
- Cum On Let’s Party!
- Wall of Hits
- Crackers (The Christmas Party Album)
- Slayed?
- You Boyz Make Big Noize
- We’ll Bring the House Down
- Old, New, Borrowed and Blue
- Beginnings
- Coz I Luv You
- Play It Loud
- You Boyz Make Big Noize
- The Story of Slade, Volume One
- Return to Base
- Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply
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