IF IT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE BEATLES…
From recording the band in a room together to encouraging Slade’s two most promising writers to assume the role of principal composers, manager and producer Chas Chandler had a consistent vision.
“Right from the beginning, Chas used The Beatles as our blueprint,” Holder says. “By the time we made CumOnFeel The Noizewe’d had three Number Ones, and Chas wanted the next one to go straight in at Number One because nobody since The Beatles had done that. We tried it with Mama which went in at Number Two, and then we rushed out Gudbuy T’Jane[which peaked at No.2]. So for Chas it became a challenge, and he and the