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Radio 6 Music,19 Dec 2024,60 mins

If It's Christmas It Must Be Slade

6 Music Stories

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Slade in conversation from the BBC archive alongside highlights from their Reading Festival appearance in 1980. Late replacements for Ozzy Osbourne, their set at the August bank holiday festival revitalised their career and includes, in an extraordinary performance, an impromptu and unseasonal crowd led version of their festive classic.

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Tracklist

  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Gudbuy T'Jane
    Gudbuy T'Jane
    Slade
  3. 2.
    Something Else - Reading Festival 1980
    Something Else - Reading Festival 1980
    Slade
  4. 3.
    Take Me Bak 'Ome (Reading Festival, 24 Aug 1980)
    Take Me Bak 'Ome (Reading Festival, 24 Aug 1980)
    Slade
  5. 4.
    Mama Weer All Crazee Now (Reading Festival, 24 Aug 1980)
    Mama Weer All Crazee Now (Reading Festival, 24 Aug 1980)
    Slade
  6. 5.
    Get Down And Get With It (Reading Festival, 24 Aug 1980)
    Get Down And Get With It (Reading Festival, 24 Aug 1980)
    Slade
  7. 6.
    Merry Christmas Everybody/Cum On Feel The Noize (Reading Festival, 24 Aug 1980)
    Merry Christmas Everybody/Cum On Feel The Noize (Reading Festival, 24 Aug 1980)
    Slade