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Track: Lay It Down
Artist: Slade
Album: Slade in Flame

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Name: Slade
Spotify Genres: glam rock, christmas
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Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton, renamed in 1969 from [a=Ambrose Slade]. The original lineup consisted of [a449696] (vocals, guitar), [a709752] (guitar), [a138855] (bass), [a219935] (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 [a673208], as which they recorded two singles and built up a reputation on the nationwide touring circuit. They were reluctantly renamed [a=Ambrose Slade] to satisfy the terms of their new record deal with [l=Fontana Records]. They released one commercially unsuccessful LP under the Ambrose Slade name, before coming under the management of [a=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. [a=Kiss] bassist [a=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". [a=Tom Petersson] of [a=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. [a=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 [a=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 [a=Slade II] before returning to the original name.

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Release: Slade - Slade In Flame
Year: 1983
Genres: Rock
Styles: Glam

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LYRICS

A beat on the drum a drum on the beat
A change of the key by pinching my seat;
A beat on the drum has got to be there
The rise in my voice a spring on my chair.
A ring on the chord a chord on the ring
A turn of the key the break of a string;
A ring on the chord has got to be here
The rise in my voice could sound very queer.

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Let's lay it down on the line Let's lay it down while it shines
Let's lay it down while it moves Let's lay it all in the grooves
Let's play it back with attack Let's make the window panes crack.

A bend on the note a note on the bend
The frog in my throat goes through to the end;
A bend on the note is all very fine
So let it hang on a hell of a time.

A chase on the bass is all very fine
There's only one place so watch for the sign