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Grandi pionieri del GLAM ROCK anni 70. Uno dei più importanti gruppi del genere insieme a T REX,Roxy music, Sweet, Mott the hoople etc. Sonorità di grande avanguardia anticipano il futuro movimento hair glam metal degli anni 80. .

The Slades were a vocal group from Austin Texas, and attended McCallum High School. Personnel included John Goeke, Don Burch, Tommy Kaspar, Bobby Doyle, and Jimmy Davis. Their second recording for Domino records was their biggest; "You Cheated" peaked at number 42 in 1958 on the Billboard charts. It was the original recording of the song, recorded before the Los Angeles based Shields covered it. The Shields had the bigger hit with it. The Slades record was still popular enough to earn them a spot on American Bandstand though. .

I Greenslade sono stati un gruppo Britannico inserito nel filone del Rock progressivo, sull'onda del successo di tale genere musicale all'inizio dei primi anni '70, venne formato da Dave Greenslade, in precedenza tastierista dei Colosseum, gruppo di Jazz Prog Rock con influenze blues, autori del capolavoro Valentyne Suite. La caratteristica principale del gruppo era quella di avere due tastieristi in formazione, l'altro era Dave Lawson, proveniente dai Web, che svolgeva anche la funzione di cantante. Completavano il line up Andy Mc Cullogh, batterista già con i King Crimson, e Tony Reeves, bassista del giro Colosseum e più tardi con i...

Arthur Greenslade (4 May 1923, Northfleet, Kent - 27 November 2003 Sydney, Australia) is a British conductor and arranger for films and television as well as a for a number of performers. In the 1950s he was pianist / arranger with the Oscar Rabin Band. He has arranged for Jack Jones, Chris Farlowe, Serge Gainsbourg, Cat Stevens, Diana Ross. and Dusty Springfield. For Shirley Bassey he famously arranged Goldfinger and Send in the Clowns. He has conducted orchestras in the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall, and was musical director for Engelbert Humperdinck and Shirley Bassey. Greenslade has also conducted some...