Slade 1969

[@Derek_S]

I was a resident DJ in one of the busiest music pubs in North London from 1969- 1973. My day job was as a sales rep, which allowed driving around all day with Radio 1 on, so i got nominated to buy the records each week. I remember hearing this new skinhead band called "Slade" around 1969 or 1970 and bought a record I liked called "Know Who You Are". I don't think it ever became a hit but a while after that, they changed their style to become part of the new glam rock thing and became a huge success. I still like that first song even now.

[@keltyk]

know who you are is an unrecognised classic. Live version on Slade Alive is ever better. They weren't very convincing skinheads... their manager made them do it

[@pd1081]

This is a hidden GEM! These guys have so much talent. Jim's violin playing is just too cool!! Real talent!!

[@СергейСироткин-т6ъ]

Все с чего-то начинали! Никогда не слышал этих песен в исполнении Нодди. Но ведь классно спели. Люблю Вас Slade!

[@АлександрВетров-ж6ъ]

Благодарю за кайф !!! ....а уши у Хилла вообще меня добили ! Всегда любил эту группу...

[@александрсергеев-я9ы]

их тогда заставили подстричься под скинов.....

[@toastertwo1602]

​​@@александрсергеев-я9ы Это была дурацкая идея Чеса Чендлера, их менеджера. Мол, "никогда раньше не было скинхедовских рок-групп, вы будете первыми". Но по факту, скинхедов никто не любил, кроме самих скинхедов, коими Slade не являлись. Соответственно они не нравились в таком виде вообще никому. Слава Богу что это продолжалось не долго.

[@александрсергеев-я9ы]

@@toastertwo1602🙂 Хилл по этому поводу сказал ,что мать его чуть из дому за зту стрижку не выгнала.

[@АлександрПодсыпанин]

@@александрсергеев-я9ы Никто не заставлял это аутентичный имидж, их заставили отрастить волосы.

[@tylermcay6676]

The lyrics are fitting Noddy: what have you done? You shaved our fucking heads :)

[@secondchance6603]

Awesome stuff!! Grew up with Slade (along with T Rex, Sweet etc) so thanks for this unseen gem.

[@susanleitch8649]

They hated this look. They were never skinheads...they were rockers and they knew it. And when they got the chance, they showed it!

[@andreverhagemusic]

hell yeah!

[@KevinHallSurfing]

susan leitch Exactly. Stupid managers idea. They indeed hated it.

[@claan719]

They surely looked better this way. Should have kept this look. Jim hated the look of the early seventies.

[@brooklynboiprod]

claan719 I agree. Long hairs usually look dirty

[@claan719]

I was rather thinking of the ridiculous outfits worn by the band between '71-'77. Ozzy Osbourne once said "what were the bands of that time thinking?" Probably they were not.

[@tattyshoesshigure5731]

Amazing footage to see… Slade really brightened up the music scene when they arrived, bringing back good old fashioned FUN along with their terrific run of classic No.1 singles!

[@robharding5345]

Oh! how time has flown. This band are much older, But much wiser, and what a band, Love Slade, I once loved the Beatles, But then these guys came along.

[@figbat1]

This has to be one of the of the most bizarre music videos on KZbin.

[@jmargotfire]

This is pretty fn vanilla

[@SJPDurham]

Loved the songs. Glam Rock was definitely them and not skinheads.

[@kenmills30]

Pity they didn't have the foresight to do an aggressive political rock number, they would not only have pre-empted punk but post punk oi and with that look been over 10 years ahead of their time.

[@ИгорьМалов-о1ю]

Ишь ты, какие молоденькие. Молоденькие, хорошенькие... Загляденье.

[@ДжонЛенин-м4й]

Игорь Малов А начинали то с "Битлз".Это говорит о том что вся великолепная Музыка началась с Них.Спасибо. Друг.

[@Prov26-11]

super talented band to transpose this song from piano to violin and the bass playing is awesome!

[@sofiapetkova6555]

Холдер еще без бакенбардов,пацаны.

[@АлексейЯроцкий-х9к]

Баки маленькие есть 🙂

[@konstantinsarychev9596]

Не очень охотно поют...может заказ какой... Спасибо чудики!Зато потом....Спасибо!!!

[@stefanwoehlke1943]

Very nice document from their early days. Chas Chandler thought it would be a wise move to give them the current skinhead look, which was probably a quick success. Well, Mr. Chandler, far from it - Slade hated this skinhead look from the beginning because it did not fit the rock they always wanted to do, and did not bring anybody any success. They put this look back very quickly - fortunately, because otherwise the success would probably never been as possible, as it was the case from 1971. Musically, what they offered on this TV performance at "Monster Music Mash" was still light years away from glam rock from the early '70s, but here they already showed good potential. Above all, the very successful "Wild Winds Are Blowing" already has many features of the later Slade sound, comes here, for example, Noddy's sawing voice already well to fruition. Thank you very much for uploading from Germany.

[@vegetableman5062]

Amazing really that they were ostensibly a covers band up until stardom arrived and that even started with a cover.

[@СергейЖидов-ж9р]

в 69 году у них пока простенько...Нодди 23 года...а в 71 году это уже МАСТЕРА мирового уровня...

[@1969MARKETING]

amazing the transformation they made in just a few years from this until the early 70's

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

Haha. “Must have been the only skinhead band with a violin”. You think?

[@Rock-iw7ov]

This is so surreal... I'm so used to see them as Rock N Rollers

[@АлексейКарпухин-м8у]

Просто нет слов. Шедевр!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@HateIronMaiden]

Not used to hear Noddy sing that soft haha

[@paulwitveendaal3381]

HateIronMaiden bit out of tune also not a song for his voice

[@agirardi100]

Slade - 'skinhead era', em sua primeira aparição na TV inglesa, tocando "Martha My Dear" e "Wild Winds Are Blowing", muito bom!!!

[@spudbyrne9497]

Wow slade what a fantastic band and Noddy can sing any song The best rock voice ever keep on rocking

[@Ч.Сергей]

да ну... эт чё, ПРАВДА ОНИ?!.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hF6oY3qOicagbLc

[@starychello2zemskov141]

Slade is very good band!

[@АлександрМакутин]

Ответье -они впереди Битлз?

[@Slunqmusic]

hoorah!

[@wito6998]

Short hair yes, but skinheads no. Maybe the US wasn’t ready for Slade’s “glam” that early? Also, despite a lot of gigs in the US, I don’t think they had much FM radio play?

[@edwinf555]

JAJAJAAAAAAA...que pequeños y tranquilos se les veía, y que paso después se loquearon..

[@Dpakon_xPYct]

Young-young Slade and old-old we... Skinhead's in the stage !...

[@red-pn8fk]

there wouldnt be a late 60s original skin listening to that utter shit mate!!

[@ЕгораКорка]

Это для меня открытие!!!!!

[@sladecrazyfan]

Been a fan for many years but it's weird watching videos like this and how they are all getting older now but gave us some great years, still remember 1st time I saw them live GREAT TIMES.

[@СергейПрокопенко-в3т]

Почти Beatles, только стриженные! Нет, не может быть!

[@iangrocock7059]

Proper live band, proper musicians Get them inducted to rock n roll hall of fame long overdue Keep on rockin Ian grocock sheffield

[@СергейФедотов-о2о]

Actually the first track shows what they could become... Many of their earliest tracks are something about very complex progressive rather than just glam rock. But anyway, this is sooo good!!

[@ianwebster3489]

That's actually a Beatles song.

[@zachjohnson637]

I think "very complex" would be a slight exaggeration...

[@davidk6271]

Great stuff , glad the clip survived

[@pierrenoir8823]

Never seen before... great !

[@jollyrott3nn]

this is surreal....

[@paulbowen6691]

Beautiful, thanks for uploading.

[@Dagoth_Ur_1]

Many Russians in the comments, that's cool Slade is quite known or liked in Russia

[@ВЛАДИМИРЖУК-й1щ]

не ожидал

[@victorpetroff830]

Slade a very underated group

[@stevepercival4774]

Brilliant cheers for posting

[@jimmygreer4626]

A Classic Video.Never Seen This Before....

[@michelleolaya83]

de skinheads a glam rockers, qué grandes!

[@dlawss]

I first heard this song being played on a childrens television programme called Magpie presented by Mick Robertson who went on to release a couple of songs himself it was made in opposition to a programme called Blue Peter.Does my memory serve me well ?

[@infidelcastro5129]

What I want to know is how Dave Hill’s head didn’t fall off during each of their performances 😂

[@JohnSmith-io5zt]

Noddy hits the note on "done" better here than he does on Beginnings.

[@darwinsape9901]

GREAT stuff lads.... never too late to discover talent!

[@tombeasley4769]

This is grate . Some 's times the early stuff is the best.

[@ОлегМамаладзе]

Это будущие боги? Кто бы мог подумать!

[@getthefffffoffme]

Jim Lea >Talent - played all the guitars parts on their hits

[@кот-бегимот]

Ноди крассавчик мощные шузы подвернутые джинсы и подтяжки 100% крсные !

[@davidbrown6415]

1st band I saw at Sheffield City Hall......still love them :)

[@pauldg837]

David Brown We had some great bands back then.

[@PAULLONDEN]

Oh my dog....what were they thinking ?.....Skinheads playing vaudeville......🤔 On the other hand...doing this during the bouffant men hairdo days...

[@davidroberts9361]

Who would have thought they would become one of the biggest bands of the 70's!

[@игорькирюшкин-ж1и]

да я себе цэлку сломал в1975-ом первая запись на магнитофон

[@ОлегГригорьев-я1э]

спасибо за ранний слейд видео потрясающее я видел еще когда они лысые пели потом они отрастили волосы

[@АлександрМакутин]

Кто знает -кто поёт , чью песню .Битлы , слейд?

[@sadduck28]

how these guys weren't bigger than led zep is beyond me

[@TheBewdleyboy]

sadduck28 as a kid growing up in th 70's these guys were truly massive...at least in the UK! Had the good fortune to see them live in 1979 - great fun!

[@allanarmstrong4333]

No way thay would never be as good as zeppelin. I liked slade. but Your talkin John bonham, John Paul Jones, Robert plant. Jimmy page. It don't come Mutch better than that.

[@awickedtribe]

They were, for a short time, as was Uriah Heep, but their style, which tends to be a bit repetitive, had slowly become more identified with 'Pop' instead of 'Rock', at least here in the States. I was a huge Slade fan in the early seventies and thought they were gods, them and T.Rex. Their style of music lends itself to being, I think, more transitional, one of those bands everyone should listen to before stepping up to the more complicated and worldly song structuring of Page and Led Zeppelin, and their brethren. It's sad that they gradually became the seminal template for what would evolve into "Bubblegum', which happened to most Glam Rock bands, like T.Rex and the Sweet. Led Zeppelin, however, was presenting a much more sophisticated style that was unstoppable.

[@ianwebster3489]

They were though, really. I mean, my Dad's was a classic punter in the 1970's. He'd heard a few Led Zeppelin songs but he didn't own any albums, so he won't have heard much by them. Slade, on the other hand, were all over TOTP, with Number 1's, Christmas Number 1's and plenty of play on Radio 1. Slade were a MUCH bigger band than Led Zeppelin in terms of profile. Zeppelin were a bit more niche at the time. Thing is, Zep were a better band with better musicians. They stopped playing before the quality started to decline and throughout the 2000's and 2010's they've done a bang up job managing the band's legacy. As have the Beatles, Stones and David Bowie. There are so many bands and artists from the time period who people don't remember. I fear for the memory of T-Rex, The Kinks, The Animals... The problem is, only so many bands can remain in the public's memory. Fact is though, these days Slade get remembered for 1 single. Led Zeppelin get remembered for a catalogue. I can't name a single Slade album (I'm 32 y/o btw) and I doubt I'm alone. I'd bet money more members of the public could name a Led Zep album than a Slade album.

[@dickjohnson1158]

sadduck28 I was a teenager when this candy ass pop piece of crap were supposedly ( as you say ) bigger than LED Zeppelin. I laugh at you and your obvious lack of first hand knowledge . Because you may have read something that doesn’t make it true.

[@НиколайБронников-м5и]

Да их начало похоже на Deep Purple с Эвансом

[@christopheryounggnomery3761]

This is cool to see their beginnings. And quite entertaining.

[@MariaMirava]

Слэйд уже тогда были слэйдом, хотя и выглядели как забавные английские уличные хулиганы)

[@gregorytimmons4777]

I remember Slade being rated as loudest live band some years after this fiasco.

[@игорькирюшкин-ж1и]

потом диск купил между гумом .Потом продал. Потом купил кулак СЛЕЙД.и пошло майдификал энд прифекал энд принципал.МЫ КИРЮШКИНЫ МЫ К ЛЕОНИДУ

[@peterboyle2711]

Saw them at Fareham youth club when they looked like this, Christ is it really 50 years ago.

[@ВладимирСыровяткин-я7ш]

Где у Нодди Холтера его знаменитые бакенбарды?))) Эх, молодые совсем!

[@colinlatham7905]

Save the Btls the best thing for sure. So diverse so talented.

[@clivewillis3971]

wow thanks for the upload ,SLADE are one of my childhood favs

[@MartinHone-g2f]

I have never seen this before! It's weird to hear Slade bashing out an obscure Beatles song. I believe (stand to be corrected) that Paul McCartney wrote this song about his dog...

[@perth45]

SO, SO different to what they actually would become,....SUCH a different look and sound to 2 years on....

[@urfinjuse8935]

The Beatles

[@garryforshaw1368]

Best Group ever ,,,,,

[@vladbkv]

Класс! Не хуже чем у битлов.

[@KiltedGreen]

This has to be the most unexpected thing ever to appear courtesy of KZbin’s algorithms! Great though, thanks.

[@phildicks9251]

I've heard stories that one reason they grew out their hair and facial hair was this look scared the hell out of club owners.

[@soyuz6327]

Proto punk

[@samuelcampbell7227]

Awesome

[@burkhard3640]

That is fucking amazing...

[@Brandon-bh7pj]

Quite the transition from here to how they are during the 70s wow.

[@денисчернов-в5з]

С какого фуфла начинали. Но Холдер уже красава и вытягивает трынь-брынь всех остальных.

[@marcbosch9920]

1969 😃👏👏👏👏Fantástica historia !! Grandes SLADE

[@dmitriygsm]

Сева Новгородцев называл их тогда "лысики". Наверно скины...

[@justalittleofftopicbut373]

So nice of Slade to lend this song to the Beatles.

[@celticwarrior1365]

Wow I was six at the time but cannot remember this. Hardly what you'd call "Oi" today despite the short hair and skinhead garb.

[@ОлегКозлов-щ8щ]

Это пипец! Если бы не видео, можно подумать Битлз. Слейд- это супер!!! Моя любимая группа!!!

[@josedan52]

enorme banda, la conoci en 1970, estaba ingresando a la secundaria, yo Beatles y un amigo era de los Stones y de Slade

[@peteking4331]

This is really good!

[@DrunkyPunk]

Remember the Spirit of '69!

[@Stephan74]

Slade most underrated British band ever

[@Milokostka]

Awesome:-)

[@garyprice427]

absolute love it

[@dark_elf_a2620]

Какие смешные)

[@flay777hooper]

У Холдера настоящий голос пробивается даже через битловский сироп...

[@armymatters8042]

God knows why they thought Martha my dear was a good choice. Wild winds though, brilliant.

[@spotterlimax7575]

hahahahaha !

[@АлександрКлиманов-к6и]

Кайф!*Кайф!*ВеликоЛепно Супер! *🅱🅾👍😎👌🆗*

[@ЕвгенийМаксимов-к5б]

Приятно было увидеть 1969,я в 3 классе 😂.

[@КоцаМарсик]

Пока как пионеры игоают