Tom Dunne: More people should really come and feel the noise of Slade

Slade were up there with any band of their era, and it's a shame how Noddy Holder and co fell from grace after a few bad decisions

Slade held incredible chart records, only being surpassed by The Beatles.

Wed, 31 Jan, 2024 - 21:30

Tom Dunne

Tom Dunne is a music-lover extraordinaire who, as well as presenting radio and TV shows, can also be seen in the wild as the lead singer with Something Happens.

“Whatever happened to Slade?” asked the graffiti on a wall in London in 1977.

In a world then in thrall to punk rock, it was a good question. Only three years previously they’d been the biggest UK singles act of the ’70s. Only The Beatles had had a better run of chart success. Yes, indeed, what had happened to Slade?