Chris Slade

Slade was born Christopher Rees in Pontypridd, Glamorgan, South Wales. He has worked with Gary Numan, Tom Jones, Olivia Newton-John (as co-members of the band Toomorrow), and Uriah Heep. On 10 June 1969 Slade was photographed by celebrity photographer Peter Borsari at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada with Tom Jones (singer), Elvis Presley and Jones’ personal assistant, Chris Ellis. [5] He was an original founding member of Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, playing on their eight studio albums released from 1972 to 1978.

In the mid-1980s Slade played with Paul Rodgers and Jimmy Page in The Firm.[4] He has played with Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, and Gary Moore on his 1989 world tour.