Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply
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| Studio album by Slade | ||||||||||
| Released | 2 April 1984 | |||||||||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||||||||
| Length | 39:21 | |||||||||
| Label | Epic/CBS | |||||||||
| Producer | Jim Lea, John Punter | |||||||||
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| Chicago Tribune | favorable |
Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply is an album by the British rock group Slade. An alternate version of The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome which was released in the UK four months prior, Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply was released in North America in April 1984 and reached number 33 in the U.S. charts.
This album proved to be the most successful North American release of Slade's career. Both "Run Runaway" and "My Oh My" enjoyed success as singles, and continue to receive consistent radio airplay in the United States and Canada.
On 1 August 1984, the album was certified Gold in Canada for 50,000 sales.
Following Slade's performance at the Reading festival in 1980, the group enjoyed sold out shows and signed a major record deal with RCA. However, since the single "We'll Bring the House Down", it had not had any hits. Singles such as "Wheels Ain't Comin' Down", "Lock Up Your Daughters", "Ruby Red" and "C'est La Vie" did not perform well on the charts.
Bassist Jim Lea had always wanted to write a big, folksy ballad and when he presented his melody idea to Holder, the lyrics to "My Oh My" were created. Another song produced was "Run Runaway", a Celtic-flavoured rock-jig featuring Lea's fiddle. RCA hired John Punter to work on the tracks, sharing production duties with Lea.
Punter's methods were different from what Slade were accustomed to; for example he made the band record their parts separately. My Oh My became a hit in late 1983, peaking at #2, behind The Flying Pickets cover of Yazoo's "Only You".
The rock band Quiet Riot covered Slade's 1973 UK chart topper Cum On Feel The Noize. Although Slade's original had not been successful in the U.S., Quiet Riot's cover peaked at #5. The song helped Quiet Riot sell seven million copies of their album Metal Health. As a result of this success, Slade signed with CBS records.
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