Slade remains a mystery to me: they repeatedly topped the British charts in the 1970s as part of the "glam rock" phenomenon (think early 1970s David Bowie) with songs I find mostly unlistenable, and which most Americans did too: a few cracked the top 100, but Slade never scored a (barely) top 20 hit in the U.S. until the 1980s. Here's what seems to me the best of the 1970s singles that were big hits in the UK (and much of Europe):
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