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You Boyz Make Big Noize

1987 studio album by Slade

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2025
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You Boyz Make Big Noize is the fourteenth and final studio album by the British rock group Slade. It was released on 27 April 1987 and reached number 98 in the UK Albums Chart. The album was largely produced by bassist Jim Lea, with two tracks produced by John Punter and another two by Roy Thomas Baker. It was the last studio album by the original lineup, prior to their split in 1992.

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Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Boyz, Make and Noize providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 29, 2025. The first chronological checks are 1987 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “You Boyz Make Big Noize” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.