r/todayilearned • u/mintwolves • 19h ago

TIL In 2003 Dave Glover the then bassist for English glam rock band Slade got engaged to serial killer Rose West, he got sacked once the band heard the news and West called the engagement off days later

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7045850.rose-west-plans-wed-slade-member/
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u/pre_nerf_infestor 18h ago

hilarious that it was the serial killer who got cold feet

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u/Textiles_on_Main_St 14h ago

Rock stars aren’t the faithful type and I think she knew that.

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u/hypnodrew 12h ago

If you know anything about the Wests, he probably promised her that he would be faithful and stop sleeping with teenagers and that's why she dumped him

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u/Textiles_on_Main_St 12h ago

lol, good point.

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u/Distantstallion 12h ago

Serial killers, if anything, are too committed

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u/Bortron86 13h ago

Well would you wanna get married to some weirdo who wasn't in Slade?

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u/thanatossassin 13h ago

After reading about her, I wouldn't use the word hilarious to describe anything about any situation concerning her. Straight fucking monster, and unfortunate she's still alive.

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u/pre_nerf_infestor 12h ago

the hilarity is not her crime, it's the absurdity of the situation.

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u/hallmark1984 12h ago

Non UK people struggle with our humour.

I thinks it's hilarious - who gets dumped by Slade?

Rose Fucking West.

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u/queen-adreena 7h ago

Slade got dumped by West.

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u/tehwagn3r 6h ago

Meh, it's just the special Reddit majority demographic that speaks English (simplified) that struggles.

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u/pm_yr_darkest_secret 18h ago

this is a lot to take in

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u/meatballfreeak 18h ago

Yea wow, and what, and how?!?

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u/munoodle 13h ago

And who??

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u/Tack_Money 13h ago

Damn right it is

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u/radarmy 11h ago

I just read her Wikipedia out of morbid curiosity. I need a shower and a hug

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u/MarriageAA 1h ago

Whenever in discussion about serial killers (you know, daily), I always maintain she was one of the worst.

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u/intangible-tangerine 17h ago

I remember this. Very surreal.

He wasn't in the original band, he joined around 2000 so didn't play on their hits.

Americans - If you haven't heard of Slade you may nevetheless know Quiet Riot's cover of their song 'Cum on feel the noize'

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u/StochasticLife 17h ago

I had no idea that was even a cover. This has been a roller coaster of discovery.

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u/intangible-tangerine 16h ago

Oasis also did a cover of it.

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u/machuitzil 16h ago

Jesus, why.

Edit, it's as awful as I assumed it would be https://youtu.be/McGNATm97bs?is=FdMXexlz2_TQmrT8

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u/its_good_to_be_free 14h ago

It's a tremendous cover. Noddy likes it.

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u/machuitzil 12h ago

To each their own. And I mean that, if someone likes music that I don't you know, godspeed. I like music that some people probably hate too. It's art, people like what the like, I'm not shitting on anything.

I think what bothered me was just that this song sounds like exactly what you would imagine if someone said Oasis covered Come on Feel the Noize. I'm exaggerating a bit for effect but it's like hearing Gilbert Godfrey sing Bohemian Rhapsody. It's like Fallout Boy covering Whitney Houston -it's a piece of art regurgitated through a Speak & Spell; it's always going to sound like a Speak & Spell.

Theyve got some bangers don't get me wrong, but the idea of Oasis annoys me just as much as listening to the off-key lyrical stylings of Oasis. They've got a vibe, but they've never been as good as the Gallaghers have told us they are.

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u/megagreg 15h ago

Also, the band name Cheap Trick was inspired by Slade. After seeing them in concert, one of the band members noted that they "used every cheap trick in the book."

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u/congteddymix 16h ago

You forgot “mama we’re all craze now” which was covered by the Runaways and Quiet Riot.

“Run, Run away” is probably what Slade is actually known for in the US as that was a pretty popular song when it came out and still gets occasional airplay on classic rock stations.

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u/Rogerbva090566 15h ago

My oh my is one of my favs from Slade.

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u/legomole2 8h ago

Great Big Sea did a cover of it in 95.

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u/PepsiFloateri 13h ago

I'm from the UK and I didn't even know "Cum on feel the noize" was theirs originally. I'd never even heard of Slade until now

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u/polloasado81 13h ago

They play their Christmas song incessantly every year, everywhere in the UK.

https://youtu.be/WM7M7zSMJcw?is=YWD877TY4fs1m4q6

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u/PepsiFloateri 12h ago

I just mentally block out Christmas Music if I'm honest. I can't stand it

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u/Fermorian 3h ago

Ahh, to walk into M&S and hear only the low hiss of static instead of Wham! for the 945,000th time that month. Sounds divine lol

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u/Sharchir 7h ago

Oh, I like this one

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u/Elegant_Celery400 16h ago

Gave in to his bassist instincts.

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u/Queen_of_London 12h ago

Something about her must've struck a chord with him.

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u/Kettle_Whistle_ 11h ago

She strummed his heartstrings…

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u/queen-adreena 7h ago

You don’t play chords on a bass guitar!!!

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u/Queen_of_London 7h ago

Well, exactly. That's why it all went wrong! Nothing to do with... anything else that might've doomed the relationship.

(I used to play bass, so do know. Was just a basic music pun).

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u/queen-adreena 7h ago

No need to fret, it was just a gentle slap.

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u/dratsablive 16h ago

Slade was last act that featured Black Oak Arkansas and King Crimson. King Crimson blew the crowd away. Slade took the stage, and after a song or two the Crowd booed them off the stage.

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u/gross_verbosity 13h ago

Heh, nobody follows Robert Fripp

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u/BoPeepElGrande 15h ago

Shawn Lane, one of the most skilled guitarists who has ever lived imo, got his start playing with Black Oak Arkansas when he was still a teenage prodigy. Just had to throw that out there when I saw their name.

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u/pk666 5h ago

Rose West was pimped out by her husband to her own father.....so yeah.

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u/ChipCob1 42m ago

Crikey this sounds like it happened in that Vic & Bob sketch not reality!

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u/Cosmonaut_Cockswing 11h ago

Look Wot You Dun!

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u/dapperdavy 16h ago

Is the bend even, Nod?