Charts striker and teen band of the early seventies, Glamrockheroen and peasant cunning workman Kids from Wolverhampton - was Slade. After "My friend Stan" and the monster hit "Merry X-Mas Everybody" However, it was mid-decade quietly to the four rockers around grater Noddy Holder. Punk and disco sound conquered the dancefloors, Marc Bolan and T.Rex died with him, and Elvis Presley also. And suddenly, in 1977, to report back Slade. "Whatever happened to Slade?" we had wondered and the answer was simple. They had stopped pubertieren and had become acoustically and visually, grow up. Therefore, the disc also no collection of hits, but a compact piece of rock history. Influenced by early heavy metal bands tell the melodic hard songs rough stories from the working class. The hectic "Be" with his philosophical character is only the prelude to pieces full of clarity, sobriety and wisdom of the common man. "It is not love, but it is not bad" on a purely practical attitude to Eros, "She's got the lot" about the infatuation of a poor man for a rich girl, and "Lightning Never Strikes Twice", the rejection of warmed Relationships are erfischend unsentimental, humorous accounts with the eternal theme of love, which would have had musical that stuff for real rock anthems. If they were not released at the wrong time. After Slade was gone until the early 80s. But do not forget.
