Chaff on the winds of opportunity, they next fell into the hands of former Animals bass player-turned-manager, Chas Chandler. He abbreviated their name to Slade and oversaw their new incarnation as a skinhead group for the stomping "Wild Winds Are Blowing". Their image as "bovver boys", complete with cropped hair and Dr Marten boots, provoked some scathing press from a media sensitive to youth culture violence.
While growing their hair and cultivating a more colourful image, they retained their aggressive musicianship and screaming vocals for the bluesy cover version of "Get Down And Get With It", which reached the UK Top 20 in Under Chandler's guidance, Holder and Lea began composing their own material, relying on distinctive riffs, a boot-stomping beat and sloganeering lyrics, usually topped off by a deliberately mis-spelt title.
Their finest moment was 's "Merry Xmas Everybody", one of the great festive rock songs and a perennial favourite. Unpretentious and proudly working-class, the band appealed to teenage audiences who cheered their larynx-wrenching singles and gloried in their garish yet peculiarly masculine forays into glam rock. Holder, clearly no sex symbol, offered a solid, cheery image, with Dickensian side whiskers and a hat covered in mirrors, while Hill took tasteless dressing to marvellous new extremes.
Largely dependent upon a young, fickle audience, and seemingly incapable of spreading their parochial charm to the USA, Slade's supremacy was to prove ephemeral. They participated in a movie, Flame, which was surprisingly impressive, and undertook extensive tours, yet by the mids they were yesterday's teen heroes. The ensuing punk explosion made them virtually redundant and prompted in the appropriately titled Whatever Happened To Slade. Undeterred they carried on just as they had done in the late 60s, awaiting a new break.
An appearance at the Reading Festival brought them credibility anew. This performance was captured on the Alive At Reading '80 EP, which pushed the band into the UK singles chart for the first time in three years. The hits subsequently dried up and in the late 80s the original quartet, while never officially splitting up, began working on other projects. They last appeared together in February Slade are one of the few bands to have survived the heady days of glitter and glam with their reputation intact and are regarded with endearing affection by a wide spectrum of age groups.
However, it appears that their creative peak is way behind them, as highlighted by the emergence in the mids of the derivative Slade II minus Holder and Lea. In stark contrast, the compilation Feel The Noize received outstanding reviews in the UK, heralding a mini-glam rock revival. Lea has released several singles under various pseudonyms, while Holder has become a popular all-round television personality, co-starring in the ITV sitcom The Grimleys, and also hosted a regular 70s rock programme on Manchester's Piccadilly Radio.
The cancelled gig Tour Poster. August 29 saw the release of "Where Have All the Boot Boys Gone" - 3 minutes of unadulterated power and aggression that had a marked effect in laying the foundation to the early 80's Oi! Late November 77 saw the release of their second Decca single "Dare To Blame" and it was promoted by a short tour of London venues like the Marquee, The Nashville, Dingwalls, and a national tour with Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers.
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For February "Quick Joey Small" 7" Slaughter were augmented by a guest appearance by Mick Ronson, but even his presence couldn't help kick this cover of a 60's classic into the charts. But by the time of the final release "Do It Dog Style" on June 13 the band had split up for the 1st time. It looked like the world had heard the last of Slaughter and the Dogs, but two of the founder members Mick Rossi and bassist Howard Bates formed a new band - Studio Sweethearts. It was announced on July 26 through the music press the band was back.
A few more gigs followed before the release on November 8th of the single "You're Ready Now". The Sounds review stated, "Great fun, I never knew they were this good". The single was promoted by 3 sold-out nights at the London Marquee, though this sudden surge in popularity wasn't enough to persuade Wayne Barrett to stay with the band and he quit in early to pursue a career on his own song writing. His vinyl debut came courtesy of March 's "East Side Of Town" 45 which was quickly followed by the album "Bite Back" - both releases issued under the shortened name Slaughter.
June 25th saw the release of the single "I'm The One". But eventually lack of chart success led to Rossi quitting in August '80 - putting the Dogs down for the next 16 years. Mick Rossi remained the most active of the band following its demise - recording an album with ex Heavy Metal Kids vocalist Gary Holton and 2 other projects The Swingers and The Monsters.
Rumours were rife of a reunion in the early nineties after a low profile release of an album called "Shocking" on Receiver Records. Kenny Slaven.
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The Slave s. Later: Phil Glen - vocals Tommy Berry - keyboards. During February Frank Kosiba left to become a full time teacher. Jim Ross took over the drums and the band also turned professional due to the number of gigs they were getting. Some 97 gigs at least from Jan 2nd to Jul 11th that year. All four band members are credited on both sides on both sides of the single - equal shares was the philosophy. There were gigs in between Jan 2nd and Oct 28th. Phil Robertson left this version of the band in late August during a bust up in Wrexham of all places and they did the outstanding gigs with a roadie on bass until breaking up in October.
They also played a few gigs with a band they got on well with called Stiltz. On 23rd August , after a falling out Jim Kelly decided to leave on the way to a gig leaving the other three to carry on. The LP was shelved incomplete and only a very poor quality tape exists somewhere.
Promotional pic from Bathgate Bands. Bathgate rock covers band 'Gannet' changed their name to 'Sloopy' around when original bass player Malcolm Lochrie was replaced by Andy Fairley. They turned professional in but were finished by when they changed their name to TNT.
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Pano Michael Douglas "no not that one! Way back in the late seventies, Pano briefly managed Dunfermline bands ' The Skids ' and later, ' Trax '. Pano dreamed-up the moniker to turn his musical ideas, inspirations and technological skills into reality. Starting off with not much more than a guitar, Minimoog and drum machine Warpo , material was written, analysed and moulded into the shape that was to become the basis of that certain 'Slurpy Gloop' sound. Fritz appeared to be quite shy in the early stages of the band but soon proved to be anything but when performing.
He had amazing off-beat rhythm and an ear for a good original keyboard sound. Having written the preliminary sketches for what would become the backbone of an album, the duo called-out for someone to have a freelance roll and experiment with some kind of vocals to layer on top of some unfinished work.
The end result live and recorded was rather intriguing to say the least. She soon adapted herself to tune in to the sound with her own inimitable style. With Fritz and Maria concentrating on vocals, the door was open for a new keyboard player to add a new dimension to the sound. All they expected from James Barney Ward was some different keyboard work but once he settled in with a Minimoog, Oscar Synth and Crumar Strings he created some mind blowing tunes. James also had an interest in backing vocals and his unique style is evident all the way through the album. The only thing was that once we started jammin', mayhem ensued as down below the traffic had stopped, the Police and papers turned up and the band consequently were arrested but released 4 hours later without charge.
A nice time was had by all".. They were described as "Psycho-delic electronica or electronic psych-delia".
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The Small Faces. Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott had already played in other bands when they met up for the first time in London's East End. After some success with their live stage act they were signed up to Don Arden's management who in turn secured a record distribution contract with Decca. Their first release 'Watcha Gonna Do About It' which was co-written by the original bass player of the Shadows, Ian Samwell, proved an instant success, but their next single was an untypical failure.
Jimmy Winston left the group after a dispute with the other members and was replaced by Ian McLagan who had until then been with Boz and the Boz People. The band settled down with the new line-up but other management disputes continued which led to them moving to Andrew Oldham's Immediate label. It was this period that saw the band at its most creative and produce some of its most memorable and unusual singles. By February of , Marriott quit the group quite suddenly saying that he didn't like the musical direction the band was taking and felt that he could no longer contribute.
Steve went off to join Peter Frampton in a new venture that became the group 'Humble Pie'. The Small Faces were not able to continue after this trauma and split up. However, they would emerge, again with Marriott together with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood, as the Faces during the s.
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Sadly, Steve Marriott died in a fire at his home during I'm very much indebted to Alex Stean for these images. From left: Gregor? He went on to be bandleader at the Raith in Kirkcaldy and played at the Fountainbridge Palais in Edinburgh before moving to Birmingham and leading the band at the Top Rank Suite there. He played with Manny Charlton of Nazareth at the Kinema too. Andrew as he was always known at home sadly died in Ghoulz Top.
Whistling Jack Smith. It must have worked because apart from scoring a hit at home, this was a top 20 hit in the USA. There were a few attempts to follow up but this was probably too unique for lightning to strike twice. The Camerons now run Riverside recording studio in Busby. They played at the Kinema on Saturday 22nd April While the reason they split is not yet known, they all went on to play with other bands later though none of them became professional.
The Sole Generation. My thanks to Bill Nisbet for this image. A local band from Dunfermline, active in the latter half of the sixties, who evolved from ' The Ambassadors ' sometime between September and June Fritz Freeburn had played previously with ' The Hellcats '. Dougie Wright went on to play with both 'Scope' and 'Middle Age Spread' but is sadly no longer with us.
He also played with The Falcons. Jimmy Somerville. Jimmy Somerville born June 22, is a Scottish pop singer. He had considerable success in the s with the pop groups Bronski Beat and The Communards, and has also had a successful solo career. Somerville was born and raised in Glasgow and has a highly distinctive falsetto high pitched singing style, and is also openly gay.
He is also a left-wing and human rights political activist. His music has consisted largely of disco music, but has also sometimes contained ground breaking social commentary. He co-founded the synth pop group Bronski Beat in , who proceeded to have a number of hits in the British charts. Their biggest hit, Smalltown Boy, which reached Number 3, was written about persecution of a gay youth in a provincial town, which at the time was ground breaking. They had a number of hits, including a cover version of Thelma Houston's Don't Leave Me This Way which spent four weeks at Number 1 in the charts, and became the biggest selling UK single of The Communards split in and Somerville launched his solo career.
He had several solo hits between and , also singing on the second Band Aid project at the end of But after releasing his album Run From Love, Somerville left the limelight and was absent from recording for a number of years.