1975

This is from Slade In Flame, a film

starring the band. The first idea was to do a spoof of The Quatermass Experiment, called The Quite A Mess Experiment. But we wanted to do a serious behind-the-scenes film showing what the rock’n’roll business was all about. Every scene is true to some band, just not necessarily Slade. This picture shows our first manager in the film, played by actor and boxer Johnny Shannon, pulling my hair and not knowing his own strength so it really hurt! The soundtrack was the best-received of our albums, with some of our best songs on it.