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Happy Birthday to “(And Now The Waltz) C’est La Vie”! Released today in 1982. Did you know Noddy picked this track out of all the tracks on “The Very Best of Slade” compilation?

"IT'S CHRISTMAS" 🗣️🎄 "Merry Xmas Everybody" is now available in Dolby Atmos. Listen now on @AppleMusic lnkfi.re/MXE-Dolby

2023 marks 50 years of "Merry Xmas Everybody" 🎉❄️ We're kicking off celebrations with a brand new video, featuring two of their iconic Top Of The Pops performances. Watch now: slade.lnk.to/MerryXmasEvery… Share your favourite memories of the song below 👇

"I'm not very good with words... but Slade speak to me" Hear @NoelGallagher talk about Slade as part of BBC’s “It’s Slade” documentary.

Did you know Slade were the highest-selling singles act in the UK in the 70s? Here's why...👀

If you enjoyed the recent Alive! At Reading release, then take the time to listen to all 56 live tracks on the All The World Is A Stage: Slade Live! compilation - Link to Album On DSPs - sladeband.lnk.to/ATWAS

At what point can we start talking about Christmas? Just want to gauge when we can start posting "It's CHRISTMASSSS", without getting it in the neck from you lot?

Available for just a couple of days, the album "Beginnings" was re-released as "Ambrose Slade – Beginnings Of Slade" in 1975 by Contour records, before being withdrawn for copyright reasons almost immediately.

Out today - The debut album ‘Beginnings’ on ltd Transparent Yellow & Red Splatter vinyl/CD mediabook as well as the bands legendary 1980 performance at Reading Festival on Alive! At Reading on ltd Transparent Orange & Black Splatter vinyl/CD mediabook - slade.lnk.to/aarbeg

Which track are you looking forward to hearing on 12"? Genesis Everybody's Next One Knocking Nails Into My House Roach Daddy Ain't Got No Heart Pity The Mother Mad Dog Cole Fly Me High If This World Were Mine Martha My Dear Born To Be Wild Journey To The Centre Of Your Mind

Recorded at the Philips studio at Stanhope Place in London, the album 'Beginnings' was released in the US, but under a very different title and artwork! The album with its original UK cover is being re-issued this month from the band's online store - slade.lnk.to/aarbeg

Dave Hill on that legendary Reading Festival performance...: “One heck of an experience, ‘cos I wasn’t going to do that gig. Slade manager Chas Chandler talked me into it…the confidence came when there was a reaction, as it built and built, sort of got bigger and bigger.

43 years ago this week Slade put in a career changing performance at Reading Festival... Re-live it on 12" in your living room, by ordering the vinyl from slade.lnk.to/aarbeg Photo by Michael Putland

Mama Weer All Crazee Now - 53 years young but still an absolute classic.

Monsters of Rock festival at Donington Park, Leicestershire, 22nd August 1981

Slade waiting at Heathrow airport - Lets hope the plane is not a 1950's prop job that had seen much better days! Picture: Barry Plummer

Slade live in London at Music Machine, 21st June 1980 Photo by Ian Edmundson

Jim Lea getting high on a speaker stack in 1981. Photo by Pete Still

The cover photo for the band's debut album Beginnings (as Ambrose Slade), was shot by Richard Stirlin at Pouk Hill in Walsall on a freezing cold day, not too far from where Noddy was then living. The shoot inspired the lyrics for the track Pouk Hill on the band's second album.

With this many amps onstage, you are definitely going to feel the noize! Slade in '81 shot by Pete Still