Library Rock's Backpages

Slade: Slayed?

Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 1 March 1973

ON THEIR HOME continent, Slade are virtually indestructible: singles launched like tank mortars into the Euro-Top Ten at selected intervals, live appearances turned to massive pledges of allegiance on the part of their audience, fan magazines (especially those aimed at a sub-hip readership) burning the midnight oil thinking up new and ever more flashy adjectives to ram the point home.

Total word count of piece: 738

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.