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On January 21st, Slade announced its new album, Old, New Borrowed and Blue had gone gold...18 days before it was even released. Advanced orders for copies had earned the band $375,000. It had been nearly two years since Slayed?, the band's last studio effort, and the first single from the album, "My Friend Stan", had already peaked in the UK at #2 , so anticipation was at a boiling point among fans of Glam's loudest rock band. At least those who hadn't tired of the ominipresent "Merry Xmas Everybody".
There were plenty of loud stadium-worthy anthem rockers on the album but the UK chart topping Old, New Borrowed and Blue also showed a few other sides of Slade. There's a honky tonk piano in "Find Yourself a Rainbow", some acoustic guitars in a country rock vein on "How Can It Be" , and a remarkable piano ballad called "Everyday", which would be released as a single at the end of March and peak at #3 on the UK singles chart.
Retitled Stomp Your Hands, Clap Your Feet, the album did little business in the US. Later in the year Slade would begin production on a movie called Slade In Flame. Then the band would move to the US and nearly vanish from the public eye as quickly as they had captured it.
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