Slade - BBC1 (Live 1969-1970)

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: RANDB81LP
Barcode: 5060331752523
Release Date: 07 Dec 2021
Genre: Rock

Here we have Slade before the hits: raw, hard rocking and high octane. Announced by Brian Matthews in 1969 as “Britain’s first skinhead group”, the Black Country rockers deliver fifteen tracks with great gusto, from the self-penned Know Who You Are, to covers of Traffic, Moody Blues and Beatles. This LP of BBC sessions captures the group described by Matthews as “four guys with short hair, heavy boots and big beat”, in all their howling, stomping glory; here are Slade banging out rockers live, and [a year or so] before they become the biggest pop phenomenon since Beatlemania.

Side One: 1. Martha My Dear 2. Wild Winds Are Blowing 3. Sweet Box 4. Wild Winds Are Blowing 5. The Shape Of Things To Come 6. Coming Home 7. Omaha 8. Nights In White Satin. Side Two: 1. The Shape Of Things To Come 2. Getting Better 3. Coloured Rain 4. It's Alright Ma It's Only Witchcraft 5. Raven 6. See Us Here 7. Interview 8. Know Who You Are