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- Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton, UK. They rose to fame during the glam rock era in the early 1970s, achieving 17 consecutive top 20 hits and six number ones on the UK Singles Chart.
The British Hit Singles & Albums names them as the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles. They were the first act to have three singles enter the charts at number one; all six of the band's chart-toppers were penned by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea.
The band members of Slade grew up in the Black Country area of the West Midlands: both the drummer Don Powell, and bass guitarist Jim Lea were born and raised in Wolverhampton, lead vocalist Noddy Holder was born and raised in the nearby town of Walsall, and lead guitarist Dave Hill was born in Devon and moved to Wolverhampton while a child.
Slade performed many times in the TopPop studios. This single was recorded on 8 November 1974
Chart performance of this single: #2 in the UK and Ireland, #1 in Norway, #8 in Germany, #13 in Netherlands and #17 Australia.
Recorded on 8 November 1974
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Broadcast date: 1974-11-02
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Most underated band all time!! 👍🏴
Nobody underrates them, get a grip ffs.
Never underrated. The biggest band ever in the 70’s. Outsold everyone. They were massive.
Nothing sums up the 70's better than Slade 👍❤🇬🇧
T.Rex. does it better.
OH my GOD i was twelve when Slade released this classic, im now 61, and still enjoying it.
Likewise
Same. Seems like yesterday...
I was born 25/09/62 lets crack on
I‘m 75 and I will love this group forever. I‘m eastgerman. We always sat behind the Wall,but we had enough possibilities to get in contact with English rock music. God bless English Rock Music!
me too 😂
Piękny utwór...........
Jest ze mna od 1974 roku
do nadal..........
Pozdrawiam serdecznie z Polski.
😎🖤💚💜🩷❤️🧡💛💙🩵
What a fantastic country we had back then
No. It wasn’t diverse at all. Very grey and boring.
@@stanmonzon5788 ok now get back to research of your gender identity.
screw diversity
Definitely my favorite band ever. I loved Noddy's voice and the lyrics of their songs. I'm glad to hear they're all still with us..
Noddy Holder was sorely underrated. He had one of the best rock voices ever!
MsG
He certainly did
What do you mean "was" he is still alive?
not "one of the best"....... THE best
That's exactly what Ozzy Osborne said in an interview, "I think Noddy Holder has possibly the greatest voice ever in rock", that's quite a reference there.
@Richard
Absolutely, I live about 45 minutes from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and I wouln't set foot in it until Slade is in it (I always used to say Slade and Sister Rosetta Tharpe but they put her in a couple of years ago).
I think what’s amazing is I can’t think of a modern day singer that comes close to Noddy’s vocals. Dude was insanely talented!
Он и сейчас талант!!!
and you never will, top bloke as well
He seems to borrow some of his technique/style from John Lennon, which is also what Liam Gallagher did. I can hear small traces of both Liam and John in his voice(obviously he came before Liam) but he has a unique rasp and vibrato that sets him apart. I am a massive Beatles and Oasis fan, and this is the first song I've heard from Slade other than Cum On Feel The Noise, and I must say it is definitely something I'd listen to again!
@CasualGameDev noddy is ten times the singer Lennon could ever be.
Kevin dubrow
Slade это наше все! Наша молодость, наши надежды,наша огромная любовь к этой группе,ни на кого не похожая, вокал старины Нодди спутать нельзя! Они навеки вечные!
Присоединяюсь
That was the second song for my father to his funeral, one of his favorite. RIP Papa I will will always love you till the end of time.
Get a grip, he won't know what song was played
Я тоже люблю их до гроба. Душа а не группа.
@@Tombro1856Mmm.🤔 I wonder; how can you be so sure?
@@portcullis5622 Dead and gone unless bluetooth have invented some amazing capabilities beyond imagination
@@Tombro1856 Have you ever thought that his father might have chosen those songs in advance?
None of us really know what happens, but there is some evidence that the spirit of people can stay around.
No songs made or produced nowadays come even close to being this good, legends
as Noel Gallagher said, the greatest pop tune ever made
Уже может.Послушай Шамана.
I saw them live in concert in Bristol .... and the production was just as perfect 🙂
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Just quality on that stage !!!... Just nice blokes !!!!
I'm only here because wrestling legend William Regal claimed it was his favorite song.
I love it😊
Man Slade is definitely not as recognized as they should be in America.
I'm not sure they got much airplay in the 1970s, I was born halfway through the decade. But they did in the 1980s with "Run Runaway". I remember seeing the video on a simulcast radio/video show, 'The Beat', on Detroit's WRIF and the local PBS channel 56 when it was released. That was a very popular show, one of few video shows for people who didn't have MTV on cable or satellite. I'm not sure if it coincided with Quiet Riot's success with Cum On Feel the Noize. I think Slade got a lot of renewed interest from that.
I ❤ that Slash wears his hat as a nod, to noddy ❤
Far far away never released as a single over there bizarrely
So many people have forgotten all about Slade. What a great band!!!!
Forgotten until every Christmas, which is both ridiculous and glorious at the same time.
They aren't a guitar oriented band anymore. Now they have a new frontman / band member who plays keyboards beside singing.
so sieht es aus
I've heard some of their songs, but I had never heard of Slade until I stumbled onto them here. Glad I did.
@@wolfgangboettcher3126 Ja leider vergessen, von vielen gehört, aber kaum einer weiß wer dahinter steckt :(
What would the 70s have been without Slade, the voice of Noddy Holder shaped a whole glam rock generation. He and the band Slade will not be forgotten. His music was a part of my youth in the 70s the most beautiful years forever. It's always nice to hear this great music from Slade, it's just timeless. Put on your headphones, close your eyes and think back to the 70s.
Great decade of music, ruined slightly by the moronic punk movement towards the end of it
I agree..was in my twenties..great time
Great words and i think you are so correct best music ever 😍😍
@@kevinbeck6785 Yes, the best music of all time and of my life. I think each of us who was able to consciously live through this wonderful time should thank God. Today's world has become a bad one, unfortunately.
I saw them live, early seventies, AWESOME.
Every band had his own music,his own character. Noddy Holder was brillant,was super. I still like his show and his infectious smile. But many other bands were super as well.
Im a singer and Jeesh,Noddy's vocals are so deceptive. You think 'Oh,i can sing that' until you try it and you realise how high it is. Mental voice!
Also he mastered the art of cranking the raspy tone just perfectly so much as it is needed.
@@freedom_aint_free It was so effortless for him as well , amazing voice
British music at its best
Slade are for life not just for Christmas
Peter Alderson nice one
indeed.
very good...
Slade alive
Big noddy
A timeless classic. Still as good now as it was back then. Me and my late brother used to listen to it again and again. It think of him every time I listen to "Far Far Away".
R.i.p to yr brother wot a great tune for him 😢
moi aussi j'écoute souvent j'ais les vinyles origines et youtube bien sur
We need bands like this again
You will never beat this kind of music to what we had in the 70s
We have no hope..... the music world is devoid of commercial talent.... those that do have talent do not make it as they would expose the entire rotten schema.
For those who don't know it.. but this is Noddys favourite Slade Song of all..
and Slade
are my all time favourite band..can't beat a bit of Noddy in my ear hole..love em best band ever...👍
I did not know that - it's one of my favourite Slad songs too, so I can understand why
@donnacoulson7173
yes far far away is his favourite track of all (Flame) Great Flim..
Great Band.. & Far Far Away A Great Track amongst all others.. in fact.. don't know if many slade fans will know but years ago Noddy done a Fish and Chips Advert with the theme song Far Far Away being in it with different lyrics if you've not seen it..check it out..
Noddy's voice back then was brilliant. One of the top ten singers of the time.
Top 5 easy..
Slade war in meiner Jugend sehr angesagt. Schön, hier wieder die Lieder zu hören und in Erinnerungen zu schwelgen. Danke!
Noddys voice is so earthy. It’s like three voices at once, so powerful. The arrangements are masterpieces. Very much brummies and songs for the working man.
Not brummies, Black Country. Big difference if you live there
@@satjinder The work ethic is still the same. God bless the engineers and the Artisans of the Midlands.
@@kendarbyshire9044 couldn't agree with you more I'm south Wales lad and Slade was my father's favorite band and trust me my father was a true graffter B.L.A 💙💙💙
This is my teenage years in a song
Quality never dies !
Is this the greatest rock 'n roll voice ever? If not, at least one of the best in my view! Absolutely perfect!
I have often thought that, better than McCartney on hey Jude and other gavelly voices other there. I like the start of 'come on feel the noise'. Baby baby babbby!
Noddy holder can shout in key.. not many people can do that.
Inthe immortals words of Brian Clough...it's in the top one!!!
Stevie ray vaughan
Another great loss to the music industry, Slade, Mud, Sweet, T.Rex, G.G and the Glitter Band, etc never be anything like them again. Our loss🐧
im 24 my dad died recently and this song for me is a slice of him, hope youre in them clouds.
Take care. All The best.
1974 was 15 and starting out in life every thing was positive and life was simple Today we have nothing more then a divided country full of hate I think it was better in the 1970s when most folk just got on with life without the hate we have today
oh yes life was so pure in theses great days
was14...and you are so right there hey
Times turned sour when the Thatcher Government was elected.!!! Sowed the seeds of division, hate iin society.
@@kenneththompson8933 Here in Germany it was Kohl and his gang of crooks. And in the US things went south with Reagan.
yes, I need a time machine everything was better. There was some kind of magic in the air. I had my family all alive, it seems like dream. This future world is very weird.
The song that really should had been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Remember the good time. Sitting with my Mum and Dad in Opel Ascona and listining this Music. German Autobahn. Now i am a truck driver and still happy to listen this Song
Probably my favourite slade song.you don't hear this enough on the radio
Scott Aubrey
I agree.
Scott Aubrey it's never played mate , to me it's their best song
Class act
So true.they play alot of the other songs but I think this and Everyday are the best Slade songs 😉
Yeah!! So cool
I'm schokin,long live songs SLADE🎉
My little dad passed away 3 years ago, and some times I listen to music likes.slade to open all the memories I have with my dad as a small child growing up. My dad was a wagon driver so he was away all week. But as soon as he got home it was the music on, and he chilled, god bless you dad I miss you so so much.
Lovely story, mate. My late sis was a huge Slade fan too and their songs raise similar happy memories.
Sorry for your loss. Music can evoke such powerful memories.
I love this song very much!
One of the most underrated band's by today's generation, equally as good as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Bad Company, AC/DC, etc.
I wouldn’t say underrate they were absolutely brilliant 🤩
Noddy Holder really would have fitted in any of those bands.
@@moggiesmusic in fairness, Noddy was asked to be AC\DC'S frontman before they decided to go with Brian Johnson.
Noddy said no due to his commitment to Slade (at the time)
He was asked to sing for acdc
My underrated bingo card is now full.
Amazing song... great band! Cheers!
One of my favourite slade tunes
Noddy Holder could sing any type of song you could throw up to him. What an artist!
I'm 66 and still get a thrill listening to slade old dude
This is Slade's best song, in my opinion 🎸
and it only got to No2 in the charts !
Agreed!
Glam rock, great days the 70's. Slade so underrated, great great band, brilliant songs
Slade jeden z najbardziej znanych i cenionych zespołuw wszehczasów!!!!! SLADE the Best!!!
Zgadzam się w 100%!
🎤🪕❣❤💯
Jeden z najlepszych przebojw SLADE.
stare fajne czasy😎
Slade are timeless... Always there with memories of dancing Friday and Saturdays.. Dance halls are gone but Slade go on forever
Encore aujourd’hui merci pour ce son incroyable j’ai 65 ans et vous arrivez à me faire pleurer de bonheur
Diese Stimme ist brilliant.Mit so einer Stimme wird man geboren.Einmalig.Gut...unvergänglich!!!Made in Slade!
How this song did not make it to the No1 spot is a mystery --- its one the best ever from Slade
Creative genius of a song that conveys a person's curiosity for exotic cultures, sights, sounds and experiences.
I always thought it was about being homesick.
@@hedgemist691 Maybe both!
Such sweet music makes me want to be 18 again but now I am 63 I miss the mid 70s and 80s
70s wouldn’t have been as good without the great sounds of slade 🇬🇧👍
"Песочный"голос Нодди Холдера не спутаешь ни с кем,слушаю уже почти 50 лет и не надоедает
Да , согласен , но голос ,скорее не песочный , а скажем , кремневый...
Скорее кремень
Glad i was in my teens those days, one word, Legends.
Yo también me alegro
What a superb song , proud of this and happy to be on my CV of Slade hits as the studio engineer x
Thank you for your service! 🎸🤣♥️
Awesome awesome how were they as people - for real? Lucky sod......
Cool! Nice comment and may I say you did a great job. Happy new year.
The underrated band of 20 th century...
Yes, slade and cockney rebel.Great performers and great songwriters, both bands so underrated.
Absolutely .... great band ... great era .... I like to connect on my YT Channel doing Bowie covers ... sometimes my One Man Band versions get people laughing ... I have a collection of rotten fruit that they donate onstage so I know keep the car running at stage exit left.
This was unquestionably their best ever. And the movie in which they starred - and from which this classic came - should imo be *immortalised* in rock/pop's all time HALL OF FAME. Does one not agree?
40 years later, the call from slade is still as loud
Our head is still in the clouds and our feet is still in the crowds buddy.
What a voice love em
50 years ago you mean…👍
@@briantyrrell5072 that is what I thought.He must be trying to hold the years back xxx
I like songs I can understand love this song
i'm yankee age 56. til' the day i die i will NEVER understand why this band wasn't bigger in the states.
Iam 66 and a limey , nor can I fella 🙂
Bigger in Confederation!!
No answer to that. Maybe bad management
Being a proud Walsall boy It’s wonderful to know this song is about my hometown. Cheers noddy and the boys 😉.
I may be 63, so what ! these guys still rock me !!
Hey mate, I am 62 next month, know what you mean.
Never too old to rock n' roll.
@@maddoman11 KOR . stay healthy !
Born 1959. Xtly.still my favorites. So much memories.sweden
I love Dave. No always on point fashionably but you can always tell, he's having the time of his life. Great band. I like them more and more the more I listen to them.
A glimpse into my 8 yr old brain circa 70’s! Slade were the most underrated band. I still love them
We are all gonna die. Thank god we had Slade. xx
Agree! 🏴
Ах милые Слейд, вы, все группы того времени украли моё сердце❤ на всегда, теперь оно там, в сладком плену вечьной молодости веселья и любви. 😍🤩❤❤❤🙏🤘🤘🤘
Just realising why my mum loves Slade ❤
This is just the sound of the 70's!!!
I absolutely love this group 🤘🏼🎶 Slade were the best rock band of the 70’s what a voice Noddy Holder had 🎵 I even cut my honeymoon short to see them live at King Georges Hall in Blackburn 1973 wow what a gig 🤘🏼🎸🎤 we were sat on the front row, and my ears rang for 2day after they were so loud 🤣😂🤘🏼🥰
I met noddy in a pub I was cheffing at......All my thoughts of him come true that day! such a lovely geniune down to earth guy! I asked him for a photo and he was so nice about it....He kept telling me to take more because the first one was rubbish. hahha.
Checkmate!
Delighted to hear that... Mega..
Noddy, a true STÀR.PEACE BE WITH YOU MY FRIEND. 🙏 😎✌🏴🇺🇦
Slade всегда нравились , напор , позитив, энергия!💪
I wasn't around in the 70s but so many of this lot's songs make me nostalgic, straight off the bat, on the first listen. It's impressive
I can honestly say that the 70's was the greatest decade, I was in my late teens - early 20's I'm so glad that I was there, I saw Slade a few times, always a brilliant show!
The song is written in the key of nostalgia, with evocative words - no wonder it makes your skin crawl!
"I'M FAR FAR AWAY WITH MY HEAD UP IN THE CLOUDS AND I'M FAR FAR AWAY WITH MY FEET DOWN IN THE CROWDS. LETTING LOOSE AROUND THE WORLD BUT THE CALL OF HOME IS LOUD STILL AS LOUD" - home will always linger in your heart
"The call of home is loud.. still as loud"..(*No matter where I live..the home I grew up in on a council estate over 50 years ago still feels like home..that's why this song resonates with me.
I really miss the 70s
A song that paints pictures with its words. A masterpiece!
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Classic, Slade did some awesome songs , underrated and a West Midlands gem
Отличные съёмки! Я всегда уважал эту группу. Мне было 15. И они такие молодые, свои ! На всю жизнь, лучшие !
Мне чуть меньше,запиленная пластинка,ах какой кайф!
Wish I was Back in the 1970s & 80s Music was Great Back Then👍🏾
These guys were HUGE in the UK during the 70's, I remember them well during my childhood. Shame they never cracked America. They deserved to, they should've been much bigger.
The most under rated band ever, happy times😊
Super,legend group, love ❤️ 🙏🎶🎵🎼🎸🎤🥁✌️🍀👌
2022 год, а я балдею от этих парней! Мне 58
Ich ebenso...liebe Grüße aus Deutschland!!
Love this song. One of most permanent melodies and lyrics of my life. Great! Love this band.
SLADE ВЕЛИКАЯ ГРУППА, С ЧУДЕСНЫМ ТВОРЧЕСТВОМ ! 💓💥🙂👍💥💓
50 jahre alt und immer noch klasse song.
I grew up in 80s watching MTV and never heard of Slade, just found out a couple days that quiet riot did a cover to their 70s song. I watched it and could not believe that it was actually better than the 80s version. Amazing
Очень оригинальный ансабль
Slade was on MTV in the 80s.... Run Runaway (great video), My O My... both pretty big hits with lots of airplay on MTV at the time....
Lads, your music will live on in 2020 and that means slade and the voice and sideburns of noddy holder are not forgotten.
One of most underated bands they put the west Midlands on the map " bostin"
Yes !!☘️☘️
UK radio never really played them
Absolutely
Underated? They had loads of number ones! But I suppose musically they weren't that respected!
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The simple days of early youth... where music was handmade...
Only appreciated how good a voice Noddy Holder has got, when I got older
This song sounds so emotional.... one of my all time favorites.
Run a way
best slade song ever, and one of the best ever....
Love the lyrics
@Cindy Marie _So romantic and melancholic at the same time, right?_
yep. Loved it as a smal child and still do
"The call of home is loud"...awesome lyrics--surely their best track
Slade ruled the early to mid 70’s and were still producing good stuff in the early 80’s
Одна из великих вещей Слэйд. Слушаю и слезы.
С такими песнями врагами быть не могут ! Замечательная группа !🙌
superb voice noddy holder had
The way this song builds is amazing. The lead guitar lines start sneaking in on the 2nd verse, then some subtle Hammond organ. I think this is one of their strongest singles.
Definitely!! Love the chord changes in time with chorus end..just such an emotional & melancholic song!!
@@kenneththompson8933 Jim Lea inserts such a beautiful melody. Love love this song ❤️
I put this on tonight because I was talking about Slade with friends (Christmas is coming, obviously) and I realised I hadn't properly listened to this song in probably 25 years.
I've got my good headphones on so that I can hear everything, and it's even better than I remember it.
A hugely underrated band. There fall baffles me to this day.They we’re not just a “singles “ band, they made great albums, were a great live act and a serious rock band. When I look at some of today’s “superstars “ who have no doubt sold a zillion more records it makes me wonder how and why? Shade are one of THE great rock bands who deserve a whole lot more respect then they get. Only in England could such a great band be written as mearly a foot note. If they had been American they would still be held up as a beacon of brilliance.
brilliant words nick
They weren't underrated Nick...they were massive!
@@kevinlyons1788 I agree, underrated is one of the most over used words on TH-cam.
Slades masterpiece and one of the best songs of the decade.
December 2019 !!!
I still love Slade!
Merry Christmas!!!❤❤❤
It's Christmas Eve Merry Christmas to you.
Saw a fella on a TV quiz show ercently asked what he'd do if he won the money and he said he was about half way through completing the things mentioned in this song and he would complete it ... immediately wished I'd thought of that ... legend!
I was 18 and my friend and I were far, far away from Liverpool. We cried when we got home to the sound of this song
Les SLADE pour moi c'est le meilleur groupe au monde après les Beatles.
Ces deux groupes c'est toute ma jeunesse.
Les années 60 à fin 70 resterions les plus belles années de tout les temps.
Ces années la, même dans un rêve on ne pourra pas les revivre.
Un grand bonjour d'Algérie à tout les nostalgiques.