Slade Scrapbook - 1980 Press Cuttings

CUTTINGS 1980

Pye Records - Press Information Pack - January 1980

Press information pack from Pye Records regarding the rlease of When The Lights Are Out by The Dummies (Jim and Frank Lea) - 11 January 1980 - PYE Popular 7P 163.

Daily Mail - 30 January 1980

Noddy Holder gives details of an 18 year old Puerto Rican girl who stalked him on Slade's last American Tour. She locked herself in his New York hotel bathroom and tried to commit suicide.

NME - February 1980

Melody Maker - 23 February 1980

NME - 8 March 1980

Advert for Slade at the Marquee on Tuesday 11 March 1980.

Hull Daily Mail - March 1980

Music Week - April 1980

Telemoustique Magazine (Belgium) - May 1980

Wolverhampton Express and Star - 12 June 1980

John Ogden from the Wolverhampton Express and Star gives information about the release of the Six of The Best EP......and praises my Slade Fan Club.

Music Week - 14 June 1980

Blackpool Evening Gazette - June 1980

Sounds - 12 July 1980

Musicians Only - 9 August 1980

Belgium Charts - 26 August 1980

Return To Base by Slade is the No.1 album in Belgium - 26 August 1980.

Melody Maker - 30 August 1980

MM reports on Slade's appearance at The Reading Festival - Sunday 24 August 1980.

Record Mirror - 30 August 1980

Wolverhampton Express & Star - 1 September 1980

The Express and Star report on Slade Sound Man Ian "Charlie" Newnham's wedding to Eileen Delahay on 30th August. Noddy Holder was best man.

Sounds - 20 September 1980

Sounds feature a picture of Slade Jim Lea, Jimmy Saville and Jim Callaghan all together.

Melody Maker - 20 September 1980

Melody Maker makes The Dummies single Didn't You Used To Be You their Single Of The Week. The Dummies consisted of Jim Lea and Frank Lea. The single cover had a pic of Jim Lea's daughter Bonny on the front. Melody Maker 20 September 1980.

Record Mirror - 1980

Interestingly, in 1980 Noddy Holder listed his Top 10 fave songs - and at no.10 was the song Nauges by Django Reinhardt. Mr Reinhardt is an idol of Nods.....so much so that in 1994 when Nod and his wife Suzan had their first son, they called him Django.

Bravo - October 1980

Melody Maker - 11 October 1980

Melody Maker reviews the Slade - Alive Ar Reading '80 EP.

Record Mirror - 11 October 1980

Record Mirror states that the Slade: Alive At Reading EP is the surprise of the week.

Wolverhampton Express and Star - 27 October 1980

John Ogden from the Wolverhampton Express and Star talks to Slade's Jim Lea about the band's performance at the Reading Festival (Sunday 24 August 1980).

NME - 1 November 1980

NME give details of the release of the Slade Greatest Hits album - Slade Smashes - on 7 November 1980. Also, details are printed of Slade's Autumn Tour starting at Norwich Cromwells on 27 November 1980.