SLADE's Noddy Holder - "We Got Bands Like KISS And TWISTED SISTER Telling Us We Were A Big Influence On Them In The '70s"
September 12, 2008, 16 years ago
The following story is courtesy of Reuters.com:
British successes on the US singles chart have always been well documented back home -- but almost as celebrated are the great UK bands that never made it on Billboard's Hot 100.
In a golden three-year period beginning in late 1971, Midlands-based glam-pop quartet SLADE would amass six U.K. No. 1s and six more U.K. top 10 hits. In the U.S., none of those singles went higher than No. 76. But lead singer Noddy Holder says that Slade was still an influence on later US metal bands, who voiced their appreciation when the English group belatedly made Billboard's top 20 with 'Run Runaway' in 1984.
"We got bands like KISS and TWISTED SISTER telling us we were a big influence on them in those ('70s) days," he recalls, "and they just took (the image) to a more ridiculous level."A decade after Slade's 1973 U.K. No. 1 (but U.S. No. 98) 'Cum On Feel The Noize', QUIET RIOT would turn the song into a No. 5 hit on the Hot 100.
Several other British movements were also largely lost in translation. The punk acts of 1976-77 represented the U.K.'s most significant musical revolution for a generation, but history records not a trace of THE SEX PISTOLS on the Hot 100.
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Slade's 'Run Runaway':
