Old New Borrowed and Blue is the fourth studio album also known by Stomp Your Hands, Clap Your Feet in the United States by the British rock group Slade. It was released on 15 February 1974 and reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart. The album was certified gold by BPI the same month of release.
The album was released in the USA on the Warner Bros. label, under the title Stomp Your Hands, Clap Your Feet, minus the tracks "My Town" and "My Friend Stan", the latter reaching #1 in Ireland in October 1973.
The single, "Everyday" was their first not to have the standard 'Slade' sound on it, which is probably why it failed to get higher than #3 on the UK Singles Chart. The previous single to this was "Merry Xmas Everybody", which was to be their final #1 hit single, although 1983's "My Oh My" would later reach the #2 spot.
On the "Slade Talk To 19 Readers" bonus track, Holder explains the title of the album came from the fact that there are some old, new, borrowed and blue songs on the album.
The album was certified gold by BPI in February 1974.
Originally, the album was planned to be released in the first week of February.
According to the Fan Club newsletter for January and February 1974, the album was rewarded a Gold Disc for pre-order sales, even before the album's release.
Also, according to the same newsletter, two or three songs non-typical Slade songs were written a couple of years before the album's release. These songs were not released sooner as they didn't fit with the Slade sound of the time.
After the recording of the album, for the fan club, Don Powell wrote "We've just finished recording our next album. It's got a lot of new things on it. Nothing very different or out of character, we've spent more time on arrangements and little ideas and effects."
Slade are a rock band from Wolverhampton, who rose to prominence during the glam rock era of the early 1970s. With 17 consecutive Top 20 hits and six number ones, the British Hit Singles & Albums names them as the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles. They were the first act to have three singles enter at number one, and all six of the band's chart-toppers were penned by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea. Total UK sales stand at 6,520,171, and their best selling single, "Merry Xmas Everybody", has sold in excess of one million copies.
Following an unsuccessful move to the United States in 1975, the band's popularity waned but was unexpectedly revived in 1980 when they were last minute replacements for Ozzy Osbourne at the Reading Rock Festival. The band later acknowledged this to have been one of the highlights of their career. The original line up split in 1992 but the band reformed the following year as Slade II. The band has continued, in various guises, to the present day.
A number of artists have cited Slade as an influence, including: Kiss, Mötley Crüe, Quiet Riot, Poison, Def Leppard, Oasis, Cheap Trick, Twisted Sister, The Runaways and Girlschool. The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Music tells of Holder's powerful vocals, guitarist Dave Hill's equally arresting dress sense and the deliberate misspelling of their song titles for which they became well known.
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