Slade in Flame (album)

Slade in Flame
Soundtrack album by
Slade
Released29 November 1974
Genre
Length41:20
LabelPolydor (UK)
Warner Bros. (US)
ProducerChas Chandler
Slade chronology
Old, New, Borrowed and Blue
(1974) 		Slade in Flame
(1974) 		Nobody's Fools
(1976)
Singles from Slade in Flame
  1. "Far Far Away"
    Released: 11 October 1974
  2. "How Does It Feel"
    Released: 7 February 1975

Slade in Flame is the first soundtrack album and fifth studio album by the British rock group Slade. It was released on 29 November 1974, reached No. 6 in the UK and was certified Gold by BPI in February 1975.[1] The album was produced by Chas Chandler and contains songs featured in the band's film of the same name. The band tried to give the album a "sixties" feel, as the film was set in 1966.

In the US, the album was released on the Warner Bros. label, with "The Bangin' Man" replacing "Summer Song (Wishing You Were Here)" & "Thanks for the Memory" replacing "Heaven Knows". A re-issue of the album in 2015 saw Salvo Sound & Vision release a repackaged CD + DVD version of the album and film.[2] BMG re-released the soundtrack album on splatter vinyl on November 26th 2021. [3]

"So Far So Good" was covered by Alice Cooper songwriter Mike Bruce on his 1975 solo album In My Own Way.[4] In a 1989 fan club interview, drummer Don Powell singled out "Standin' On the Corner" as one of the band's best efforts on record: "It's got a great swing to it and it's the first time we even used brass."[5][6]

  1. ^ "Home". BPI. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  2. ^ "Salvo". Salvo-music.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
  3. ^ https://slade.tmstor.es/product/97053
  4. ^ "Michael Bruce – In My Own Way (Vinyl, LP) at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  5. ^ "1989".
  6. ^ 2nd Slade International Fan Club newsletter April – May – June 1989