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Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton, renamed in 1969 from Ambrose Slade. The original lineup consisted of Noddy Holder (vocals, guitar), Dave Hill (4) (guitar), Jim Lea (bass), Don Powell (drums).

Ambrose Slade January 1969 - December 1969 Don Powell - Drums Dave Hill - Guitar / Vocals Jim Lea - Bass Guitar / Violin Noddy Holder - Lead Vocals / Guitar

Slade December 1969 - 1992 Don Powell - Drums Dave Hill - Lead Guitar / Vocals Jim Lea - Bass Guitar / Violin / Keyboards / Flute / Vocals Noddy Holder - Lead Vocals / Guitar

Slade II (Version 1) December 1992 - Mid 1994 Don Powell – Drums Dave Hill - Guitar / Vocals Steve Whalley - Guitar and Lead vocals Craig Fenney - Bass Guitar / Vocals Steve Makin - Guitar / Vocals (Died: March 2021) was a English guitarist.

Slade II (Version 2) Mid 1994 - December 1996 Don Powell – Drums Dave Hill - Guitar / Vocals Steve Whalley - Guitar and Lead Vocals Trevor Holliday - Bass Guitar / Vocals Steve Makin - Guitar / Vocals (Died: March 2021) was a English guitarist.

Slade II (Version 3) December 1996 - September 2000 Don Powell – Drums Dave Hill - Guitar / Vocals Steve Whalley - Guitar and Lead Vocals Trevor Holliday - Bass Guitar / Vocals

Slade II (Version 4) and renamed Slade (Version 2) Oct 2000 - Early 2003 Don Powell – Drums Dave Hill - Guitar Steve Whalley - Guitar and Lead Vocals Dave Glover - Bass Guitar

Slade (Version 3) February 2003 - 30 June 2005 Don Powell – Drums Dave Hill - Guitar / Vocals Steve Whalley - Guitar and Lead Vocals John Berry - Bass Guitar / Vocals

Slade (Version 4) 2005–2019 Don Powell – Drums Dave Hill - Guitar / Vocals Mal McNulty - Guitar and Lead Vocals John Berry - Bass Guitar

Slade (Version 5) 2019–2020 Don Powell - Drums Dave Hill - Guitar, Vocals Russell Keefe - Vocals, Keyboards John Berry - Vocals, Bass, Violin

Slade (Version 6) 2020– Dave Hill - Guitar, Vocals Russell Keefe - Vocals, Keyboards John Berry - Vocals, Bass, Violin Alex Bines - Drums

Slade rose to prominence during the glam rock era of the early 1970s. With seventeen consecutive Top 20 hits and six number ones, the British Hit Singles & Albums names them as the most successful British group of the 1970s. They were the first act to have three singles enter at #1, and all six of the Wolverhampton band's chart-toppers were penned by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea. Total UK sales stand at 6,520,171, and their best selling single, "Merry Xmas Everybody", has sold in excess of one million copies.

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music has also made mention of Holder's powerful vocals and guitarist Dave Hill's equally arresting dress sense along with the deliberate misspelling of their song titles for which they became well known.

The group started off as The N' Betweens, as which they recorded two singles and built up a reputation on the nationwide touring circuit. They were reluctantly renamed Ambrose Slade to satisfy the terms of their new record deal with Fontana Records. They released one commercially unsuccessful LP under the Ambrose Slade name, before coming under the management of Chas Chandler who shortened the name to Slade.

While Slade's attempts at cracking the United States market were largely unsuccessful, they left their mark on several US bands who cite Slade as an influence. Kiss bassist Gene Simmons admitted that his band's early songwriting ethos and stage performance style was influenced by Slade. In his book, Kiss and Make-Up, Simmons wrote on page 85, "the one we kept returning to was Slade," and "we liked the way they connected with the crowd, and the way they wrote anthems... we wanted that same energy, that same irresistible simplicity. but we wanted it American-style". Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick said on their From Tokyo to You DVD that his band went to see Slade perform, and that they used "every cheap trick in the book", thus inadvertently coining his group's name. Cheap Trick covered the song "When the Lights are Out" (the original appeared on Old New Borrowed and Blue) on their 2009 release, The Latest. Quiet Riot had US hits with their covers of "Cum On Feel the Noize" and "Mama Weer All Crazee Now". The origins of Slade's influence on Quiet Riot dated back to the early 1970s, when Kevin DuBrow photographed Slade during their first Los Angeles appearances at the Whisky a Go Go.

After Lea and Holder left the band, the remaining members performed for some time as Slade II before returning to the original name.

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Slade are an English rock band formed in Wolverhampton in 1966. They rose to prominence during the glam rock era in the early 1970s, achieving 17 consecutive top 20 hits and six number ones on the UK Singles Chart. The British Hit Singles & Albums names them the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles. They were the first act to have three singles enter the charts at number one; all six of the band's chart-toppers were penned by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea. As of 2006, total UK sales stood at over 6,500,000. Their best-selling single, "Merry Xmas Everybody", sold in excess of one million copies. According to the 1999 BBC documentary It's Slade, the band have sold more than 50 million records worldwide. Following an unsuccessful move to the U.S. in 1975, Slade's popularity in the UK waned, but was unexpectedly revived in 1980 when they were last-minute replacements for Ozzy Osbourne at the Reading Rock Festival. The band later acknowledged this to have been one of the highlights of their career. The original line-up split in 1992, but re-formed later in the year as Slade II. The band have continued, with a number of line-up changes, to the present day. They have also shortened the group name back to Slade. A number of artists from diverse genres have cited Slade as an influence. The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Music tells of Holder's powerful vocals, guitarist Dave Hill's equally arresting dress sense and the deliberate misspelling of their song titles (such as "Cum On Feel the Noize" and "Mama Weer All Crazee Now") for which they became well known.

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