FEEL THE NOIZE SLADE REISSUES ON CD & DVD

Reissue and compilations specialist Union Square Music is delighted to announce that it has acquired an exclusive license to reissue all of Slade's original studio albums plus a number of exclusive compilations.

Slade’s illustrious chart haul between 1971 and 1991 included over 25 Top 40 hits with no less than 6 Number One singles, and 3 Number One Albums.

Frequently described as “the missing link between the Beatles and Oasis”, they are arguably the most successful UK rock band yet to receive a fully comprehensive reissue programme.

Union Square will remedy this over the next year via their new label imprint, Salvo Records, and will re-issue the original, re-mastered albums together with bonus tracks, many of which have never been released on CD; there will also be a fully annotated Anthology Box Set (due September 2006).

The programme commences August 21st 2006 with the release of ‘Beginnings’, ‘Play It Loud’, ‘The Slade Live Anthology’ (featuring Slade Alive, Slade Alive II, Slade On Stage and the Reading ’80 EPs), ‘Slayed’, and ‘ Old New Borrowed And Blue’, and will continue through to 2007.

With the combined talents and flamboyance of Noddy Holder, Jimmy Lea, Dave Hill and Don Powell, Slade set literacy standards back years with anthems like Coz I Luv You, Cum On Feel The Noize and Mama Weer All Crazee Now; songs often inspired by their high octane live shows.

But while they consistently rocked hard on classic albums such as Slade Alive! Slayed? Old New Borrowed And Blue and The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome, they also had a significant talent for balladry, evidenced by such brilliant numbers as How Does It Feel and My Oh My. They made an indelible mark on screen, too - Their grittily realistic 1975 movie, Slade In Flame, remains perhaps the most revered rock drama of them all.

In the 1980s, following the triumphant Reading Festival appearance that revitalized their fortunes in the UK, Slade deservedly enjoyed substantial success in the USA and their lasting effect on rock music is unquestioned. Artists of the calibre of The Ramones, Ritchie Blackmore, Kiss, The Sex Pistols, Paul Weller, Oasis and the late Kurt Cobain as well some unlikely acolytes such as James Blunt (who has been performing ‘Coz I luv You’ on his recent US tour!), have all testified to their influence. Fifteen years after they split their work is ripe for reappraisal.

As Noddy himself observes: "The re-issue of the entire Slade catalogue will satisfy the lust of any true rock fan and tickle the fancy of anyone who has yet to be initiated. Keep On Rockin'."