Slade In Flame
Slade in Flame also known as Flame is a 1975 film starring the members of the band Slade. In 2007, BBC film critic Mark Kermode called it the Citizen Kane of rock musicals and included its soundtrack among the 50 greatest soundtracks in cinemas history.
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. The film begins with the future members of Flame playing in two rival bands, one with a singer named Jack Daniels Alan Lake, and the other, The Undertakers, fronted by Stoker Noddy Holder. Flame are formed from the two bands, with Charlie Don Powell joining on drums, making up the same lineup as the reallife Slade. They are picked up by marketing man Robert Seymour Tom Conti and with the help of publicity stunts the bands fortunes improve, but their former agent played by Johnny Shannon stakes a claim to their earnings, and uses violence to try to get his way. The band members tire of the music business and the band breaks up.The idea for a Slade film came from manager Chas Chandler, who felt that it would be a suitable next step in the bands career. The group dismissed the idea of a Hard Days Night sort of slapstick, speededup film, runaround type thing as too obvious. Slade were offered a number of suggestions for a movie screenplay, such as Quite a Mess, a comedy reworking of The Quatermass Experiment where Dave Hill would be the experiment of the title, only to be killed off by a Triffid thing in the first fifteen minutes. The band accepted Slade in Flame, as a sort of behindthescenes, nittygritty look at the rock n roll business. ........
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