Slade - Take Me Bak Ome. Written by Jim Lea and Noddy Holder and produced by Chas Chandler, Take Me Bak Ome was the second of Slades six UK number one singles spending a single week at the top in July 1972. Around this time the band appeared at the Great Western festival near Lincoln. Slade triumphed before a large crowd despite a line-up of more serious acts. Hill, incidentally wore an all silver leather outfit for the first time on stage at Lincoln; his sartorial touch would influence British fashion for the next few years. Take Me Bak Ome was currently at No. 13 in the UK Singles Chart during the festival. The following week it reached No. 1 and Slade gained credibility as live performers. During the recording of the track, Holder ad-libbed over the riff in the middle of the song. Lea asked him to change the ad-lib because it had given him the idea for their next single Mama Weer All Crazee Now. No promotional video was created for the song, despite the previous single Look Wot You Dun having two videos. Dave Thompson, from AllMusic described the song was what vocalist Noddy Holder later described as classic Slade - really rowdy and boisterous. Neither of its predecessors, Coz I Luv You or Look Wot You Dun, had attempted to capture the feel of Slade in full flight, the live barrage which had established them as a major live draw long before their records started selling; Holder and Jim Leas Take Me Bak Ome was custom-built to relieve that deficiency. In an August 1972 interview for Sounds magazine, Hill stated Coz I Luv You was a different kind of song, I thought that was the perfect simple song that made number one so easy, you know? Look Wot You Dun was a classic kind of song, with a clean, classy arrangement to it, but then Take Me Back Ome was a live, earth-dirt song - I felt much more out of that than I did from all the rest, it projected more, and it wasn’t just a hit record. I didn’t know if that kind of song could make it, and it was great having a thick, dirty song up at number one.
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