Slade In Flame Article: 1975

A Slade Cinema Debut Spotlight

Premiere in cinemas across the U.K. on January 12, 1975, Slade’s Slade In Flame — the band’s debut feature film — was a gritty, semi-autobiographical drama directed by Richard Loncraine. The film followed the rise of a fictional glam band, starring Noddy Holder, Dave Hill, Jim Lea, and Don Powell as themselves. An article in the press highlighted the premiere, capturing Slade’s transition from chart-topping rockers to screen stars.

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Publication Details

Publication: Various U.K. press (film premiere coverage).

Date: January 12, 1975.

Format: Article on the band’s movie debut.

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Slade in Flame (also known as Flame) it was directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Andrew Birkin with additional dialogue by Dave Humphries. The film includes supporting roles by Tom Conti, Alan Lake and Johnny Shannon.

The film charts the history of "Flame", a fictitious group in the late 1960s who are picked up by a marketing company and taken to the top, only to break up at their zenith. Described as the "Citizen Kane of rock musicals" by BBC film critic Mark Kermode, the film went on to achieve critical acclaim years after the mixed feelings on its original release.

Slade in Flame has been released in VHS and DVD form, and was re-mastered and released in its original Cinemascope wide-screen format on DVD for the first time in 2007. The set also featured the soundtrack album. In 2015, Sound & Vision issued a repackaged CD and DVD version of the album and film