I loved my Slade raucous and rowdy so I was a bit disappointed when they came up with this pub singalong at the tail end of 1973.

All the same, it was just good to have them back in action only weeks after drummer Don Powell was in a coma following the car crash that killed his fiancee.

Don had to be lifted on to his drum stool to record this but his percussion part is far from testing. Just to see him back in action was a reassuring sight, especially when we saw this video of the band recording the song in the studio.

Jim Lea is plonking away at the old joanna like a pub entertainer and Dave Hill is playing his ‘SuperYob’ guitar; shy retiring Dave also drove a car with the registration YOB 1.

There’s not much to the song, but that’s the way Slade liked it, and it still stomped and thumped like the old hits, albeit at half the speed of before.

Apparently the band’s manager and producer, Chas Chandler, turned down financial inducements from the management team of teen idol David Cassidy to delay the release of this single. They were afraid it might keep Cassidy from top spot with his new single. They were wrong.

Slade released this a week earlier and it entered the chart at No.3:  a disappointment after their previous two singles (Cum On Feel The Noize and Skweeze Me Pleeze Me) had gone straight in at No.1 – all the more so after the massive publicity around Powell’s accident.

Cassidy’s song Daydreamer came out a week later and, helped by a video of him landing at Heathrow in a private jet and singing the song on the runway, pipped Slade to top spot in the chart.