Visually, I think we probably looked like four spacemen up there.” We were an out-and-out rock ’n’ roll band trying to get audience participation going, but the audience just didn’t have any energy. “Half the audience was out of it they were just stoned out of their trees. “It was a very strange experience,” he says. Holder remembers how different the American audiences were from what they’d been used to everywhere else in the world. Slade made their first earnest attempt to try to break open the world’s biggest market – the U.S. Lea wrote all the music and often came up with key phrases for choruses and titles, leaving singer Holder to fill in the gaps with bawdy tales and a mirrored top hat full of double entendres… Piledrivers A virtuoso violinist as a schoolboy, he abandoned the staid world of orchestral ensembles for the hedonistic joys of the three-minute classic. The secret to Slade’s success was their songs, penned by singer Noddy Holder and bass player Jim Lea, who was the musical brain behind the band.
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