Drummer with
Uriah Heep, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band and
AC/DC, amongst several others. Born 30-10-1946 in Pontypridd, Wales, his first claim to fame was playing with
The Squires, the
Tom Jones backing group (1963-1969). By 1972, he had moved on to Manfred Mann’s Earth Band and played with them until 1978, when he shortly joined with former Earth Band members to form the Band
Terra Nova. But this band did not have a lot of success and dissolved quickly. His next real group was with
Jimmy Page and
Paul Rodgers in
The Firm. That band wanted him so badly that they waited several months for him to finish a previous commitment with
David Gilmour. After the demise of The Firm, Slade hooked up with AC/DC for quite a while. He then became the drummer for the prog rock group
Asia for two albums. Most recently he is the drummer for British power rock group
Damage Control.