1980

Chandler ‘Chas’ discovered and signed Slade in 1969. He’d been in The Animals, who I was a big fan of, and he discovered, produced and managed Jimi Hendrix, bringing him to Britain. When he went back to the US, Chas wanted a rock’n’roll band to manage and was key to making Slade a success. This photo of us was just before we split from Chas – we had run our course with him. We stayed quite friendly after.