Before Slade's third album shot to the top of the charts, they were going nowhere. Their roots dated back to the mid-60s when, as the 'N Betweens, they were one of the many bands trying to make a name ...

It’s easy to make fun of Slade. Easy to mock. Easy to laugh at their football-terrace aesthetic, their 12-bar oikishness and the ridiculous mirrored top hats. With 17 consecutive Top 20 hits and six ...

HOD carriers in panstick, superyobs in silver boiler suits Slade in their mid-70s heyday were so deliriously wrong that they had to be right. With hit 45s Mama Weer All Crazee Now and Gudbuy T'Jane, ...

Slade drummer Don Powell is celebrating 50 years since Slade's No.1 album Slayed? with his new band, Don & The Dreamers. We asked him the BIG questions . . . Slayed? was one of Slade’s most successful ...

Two squalling guitar breaks set the Jimi Hendrix of “Third Stone from the Sun” in a hard rock context. Produced by former Hendrix co-manager Chas Chandler, it could be an outtake from MC5’s 1971 album ...

An Australian Noddy Holder soundalike has thrown his huge mirrored hat into the ring as the quest to find a crazee new Slade frontman hots up. Danny Devlin, 50, from far far away Perth, is considering ...