This is it. My Slade badge. It is the rarest treasure of my adolescence, because it is all that remains from the best night of my teenage life, the evening of 4 May, 1975, when - along with my good friend Kendo - I saw Slade at the Citadel in Leith. The night had everything. It was a fantasy dissolved. It was the first and best rock concert I ever went …
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