Slade facts for kids

Slade
Quick facts for kids Slade
	Slade in 1973. Left to right: Jim Lea, Don Powell, Noddy Holder, Dave Hill
Background information
Origin	Walsall and Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK
Genres	Glam rock
Years active	1966 – present
Labels	Polydor Records; RCA
Members	Dave Hill; Don Powell; John Berry; Mal McNulty
Past members	Noddy Holder; Jim Lea; Steve Whalley; Steve Makin; Craig Fenney; Dave Glover; Trevor Holliday

Slade is a English Hard rock /Glam rock band. The band started in 1966 and were popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The band released fifteen studio albums and four live albums.

With worldwide success, particularly in the UK and Europe, the band scored six number one singles on the UK chart, and a total of 24 top forty singles in the country. The original line-up split in 1992 which led guitarist Dave Hill and drummer Don Powell to form Slade II, with new members. The new line-up continues to tour today.

In 1975, the band made a film titled Slade in Flame.

Members

Noddy Holder - Vocals / guitars / bass guitar
Dave Hill - Guitars / vocals / bass guitar
Jim Lea - Bass guitar / vocals / keyboards / violin / guitars
Don Powell - Drums / percussion

Albums

Beginnings (as Ambrose Slade, 1969)
Play It Loud (1970)
Slade Alive! (1972)
Slayed? (1972)
Sladest (1973)
Old New Borrowed and Blue (1974)
Slade in Flame (1974)
Nobody's Fools (1976)
Whatever Happened to Slade (1977)
Slade Alive Vol. 2 (1978)
Return to Base (1979)
We'll Bring the House Down (1981)
Till Deaf Do Us Part (1981)
Slade on Stage (1982)
The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome (1983)
Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply (1984)
Rogues Gallery (1985)
Crackers – The Christmas Party Album (1985)
You Boyz Make Big Noize (1987)
Wall of Hits (1991)
Keep on Rockin' (1994) (as Slade II)
Cum On Let's Party (2000) (as Slade II)

Images for kids

Slade in their skinhead phase in 1969from left: Powell, Lea, Holder, Hill.
Noddy Holder (right) and Dave Hill (left), near the height of their fame in 1973, showing some of their more extreme glam rock fashions.
Slade performing in Norway in 1977.
Slade performing at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff in December 1981.
Promotional photo of Slade in 1986
Don Powell signing copies of his biography Look Wot I Dun – My Life in Slade at Liverpool One's Waterstones in 2014