Glamrock legends serve up all the greatest hits

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It’s being billed as the “final tour” for Dave Hill’s SLADE. The good news is that it’s certainly not the end for their UK performances.

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00:00good afternoon what a fantastic pleasure this is to talk to dave hill dave hill's slave is on the

00:08tour on the road with the christmas tour now the wonderful thing about slade is i think it's a band

00:13that just makes us feel young again doesn't it and you are it does make me feel young

00:17what what is can you what can you explain that enduring attraction of slade why do we all love

00:25slade do you think i i think because we're actually a bunch of guys who lived on council houses

00:32and worked the way up i think we had a very we had good parents we were solid uh and we we we knew how

00:44to work hard and i mean as soon as i got out of my job when i was 18 i went professional i knew i

00:52wanted to be like the beatles i wanted to have that life i could play the guitar my granddad was

00:59a classical pianist so the music was in me anyway and very melodic but the principle of it all is

01:05you never know what you're going to get until you try and get it right so the purpose of meeting the

01:12right people which we did with jazz chandler and then eventually led to writing our own songs and

01:19becoming successful and the clothes are a very well-known thing to me what i find with everybody

01:26you were stealing a few inches apparently then yeah i've either in europe in i've been to germany

01:34sweden switzerland all those places i've been to the baltic states i've toured russia the effect of the

01:41music is phenomenal actually you know you go into countries where you don't think they know what the

01:47lyrics mean but when they're at the venues they're singing it the general impression and because i'm

01:53very recognizable right is that i get stopped in the street when i'm in foreign countries right

01:59the feeling of slave is the genuine side of actually looking like a band who really mean what they do

02:09right it's the aspect of performing and the principle of what made us great was we were great live but all

02:18we needed to do was make great records to enhance our own show so at first we played other people's

02:26stuff but once we started to have writers in the band who could write hits of course we gathered our own

02:34power like the beatles did and in a sense chas always thought we were the next beatles anyway because

02:42we we would be slayed of our own generation i think thankfully the journey i mean we were everywhere

02:52australia all other places you know the phone wouldn't stop i think i was quite young then though

02:5924 24 so it was like yeah you know i've heard groups moaning about fans screaming at them

03:08when i was enjoying every minute of it you know especially with what i was wearing and what i was

03:13wearing was help sell the records because i had a saying in the band and i said it to chas and nod and

03:21jim and i i just said i said you know to nod and jim i said um you write them and i'll sell them and

03:29and and that's what i felt i was doing i mean obviously given all that are you surprised that

03:35here we are 52 years later there's a certain christmas song that you are still going to be singing

03:40yeah well i think uh life you know life is is not to be worked out you know when someone said to me

03:49would you live your life again and what would you change i wouldn't change anything because it

03:54wouldn't be as good because my journey was discovery all the way and i'm still discovering now and because

04:02i'm full of stories i should probably move into the audience with type dates in my country and also

04:09abroad it's because i've got so much to say i've become a talker you know and i'm also um an ambassador

04:18to mental health for the west midlands yeah i was asked to be it because they wanted a voice

04:24to raise money and i'm working with any henry's sister kay hinton i know lenny because i knew him

04:32when he was young you see uh where when we were a young band he was uh he was in a place he was

04:38working in a place where we used to play so and he's done great hasn't he you know he comes from a

04:44solid family and the thing with with me is the journey is all about that because the destination

04:51or the arrival hasn't come because the arrival is not there you know it's like if i want to fly a

04:59plane and go to the end of the earth i'm not going to go there am i because there is no end because

05:04the the the universe keeps recreating itself you know it's all in one you know so i can forget that

05:11you know i'll talk to brian cox about that but if the universe is expanding it's it's it is there is

05:19no end and with our music i think because of the younger people have heard it when i play they're not

05:27all 50 odd or 60 they are indeed quite young also people like real groups they like image they like

05:35the fun of the 70 was there were a lot of different groups but they were all good you know

05:40rod stewart you know the sweet the mud uh um you know you know even you know the eagles come in

05:52later then you got kiss who were big fans of us that kiss saw us when we were trying to make america

05:59you know we worked in the states we worked with kiss aerosmith and we worked with i mean so many bands

06:08we actually worked with grateful dead

06:11come on feel the noise and decide fit

06:18the joy of everything just before you go the joy of everything is captured in the imagination of the

06:29christmas song no one all those years ago would ever know that anybody would remember this after a

06:36couple of years right but it to become a legacy of probably the greatest christmas song that's ever

06:43written by a rock band right and that's what we are a rock band the thing we come up with something there

06:51which some people say christmas is not christmas without hearing that song you know and to be honest

06:58with you the lyrics are great in that song because it's about what people do yeah and in the 70s with a

07:05three day strikes and three days working lots of problems and power cuts we bring out a song which

07:13lifts the nation and we definitely lifted britain because they were really in difficulty great

07:21difficulty and there was a lot of hard work i think i think that christmas was probably the happiest most

07:29people have ever had because they went what the hell slides number one great song and it's all about us

07:38you know the family coming around fantastic well i look forward very much to hearing it on stage again

07:43dave absolutely lovely to speak to you congratulations thank you and thank you for what i say to my fans

07:50keep on rocky lovely to see you thank you okay mate

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