Beginnings (Slade album)

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Beginnings
Studio album by Ambrose Slade
Released	May 9, 1969
Genre	Glam rock
Length	mm:ss
Label	Fontana Records
Producer	Ambrose Slade & Roger Wake
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Ambrose Slade chronology
Beginnings (1969) Play It Loud (1970)

Beginnings was the first album by the English glam/hardrock group Slade (under the name Ambrose Slade). It was released May 9, 1969 but failed to enter the charts. It was also released as Ballzy in the U.S.

Beginnings was remastered in 2006 and released with their second album Play It Loud on a single CD. Bonus tracks are the singles "Wild Winds Are Blowing" and "Get Down And Get With It"

[edit] Track listing

1. "Genesis" (Holder/Lea/Hill/Powell) Did Not Chart
2. "Everybody's Next One" (Kay/Mekler)
3. "Knocking Nails Into My House" (Lynne)
4. "Roach Daddy" (Holder/Lea/Hill/Powell)
5. "Ain't Got No Heart" (Zappa)
6. "Pity The Mother" (Holder/Lea)
7. "Mad Dog Cole" (Holder/Lea/Hill/Powell)
8. "Fly Me High" (Hayward)
9. "If This World Were Mine" (Gaye)
10. "Martha My Dear" (Lennon/McCartney)
11. "Born to Be Wild" (Mars Bonfire)
12. "Journey To The Center Of Your Mind" (Nugent/Farmer)

[edit] Personnel

• Noddy Holder - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
• Dave Hill - lead guitar
• Jim Lea - bass guitar
• Don Powell - drums

v • d • e Slade Dave Hill • Don Powell • Mal McNulty • John Berry Noddy Holder • Jim Lea • Steve Whalley • Steve Makin • Trevor Holliday • Dave Glover • Studio albums Beginnings (1969) • Play It Loud (1970) • Slayed? (1972) • Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (1974) • Slade In Flame (1974) • Nobody's Fools (1976) • Whatever Happened to Slade? (1977) • Return to Base (1979) • We'll Bring the House Down (1981) • Til Deaf Do Us Part (1981) • The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome (1983) • Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply (1984) • Rogues Gallery (1985) • You Boyz Make Big Noize (1987) Live albums Slade Alive! (1972) • Slade Alive, Vol. 2 (1978) • Slade on Stage (1982) Compilations Sladest (1973) • Slade Smashes! (1980) • Crackers: The Party Album (1985) • Wall of Hits (1991) • Feel The Noize- Greatest Hits (1997) • The Very Best of Slade (2005) • The Slade Box 4 CD Anthology 1969-1991 (2006)