Slade: Live at the BBC | CD review

(Salvo)It must be getting harder to find new Slade material to trudge out every Christmas but this is a treat, tracing the Black Country rockers' fascinating 1969-72 progress from a band Tony Blackburn introduces as "the skinhead set" to the biggest pop phenomenon since Beatlemania. These long-lost radio sessions give some feeling of how they arrived in the peace'n'love era like a force-10 gale, with Radio 2's Jimmy Young commenting he'd "never heard such a row in my life." Initially a "travelli...

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