Following Slade's post-Reading '80 resurgence, no one was happier and prouder to see Slade back in the charts and filling the venues they deserved than the manager and producer who had guided them to early 70s superstardom, Chas Chandler. However, by then band and manager had not been seeing eye-to-eye for a while. Having already been relieved of his record producing duties in 1979 and with the band making many of their own decisions, Chandler knew his days with the band were numbered. The final straw was the debacle surrounding their May 1981 single "Knuckle Sandwich Nancy", which was half-heartedly released and flopped.
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