Release
Upon release, Holder was interviewed for the Slade Fan Club Newsletter of April, May and June 1976. Holder stated "Really proud of the album. We think it's our best, but we always say that everytime we bring another one out. However, there is something special about this one."
Holder also stated the album was one of Slade's best because it is a work of blood, sweat and tears as opposed to a quick, rushed job in between gigs and it is their most experimental work of the time.
Years later, when singer Noddy Holder was asked for his favourite Slade album he stated "my favourite Slade album would be 'Nobody's Fools'. That is the only one I can really sit down at home and listen to from start to finish".
For the Slade Fan Club Newsletter of April, May, June, 1976, Jim Lea stated "I am really proud of the album and believe it is the best album we have ever done. I have no especial favourite track on the album - I love them all. I'm sure you will see quite an American influence on a lot of the tracks and we believe the hard work we put in, in America had paid dividends."
During a fan club interview with Holder in mid-1976, Lea stated "This is the only album of all the Slade albums that I can sit down and play. Before I've been fed up with them by the time they came out. But I honestly like playing this one at home."
Lea was asked his opinion on the fans statement that every track could be a potential single. "Well, it's all down to taste, but we've had friends and people we know coming up and saying "oh, I think that should be the next single" or "this should be the next single", everyone seems to like different tracks. I think the ones we had out ("In For a Penny" and "Let's Call It Quits") proved to be pretty good singles."
According to the Slade fan club magazine, at the time of release, L.A. and other parts of America were positive towards Slade and so it seemed there was a good chance that "Nobody's Fools" was going to make the Billboard Hot 100.
In the Slade Fan Club Newsletter for July, August and September 1976, it was stated that the St. Louis sales market for Slade was bigger than any other artist on the Warner Bros. record label in the area at the time.
In an early 1986 Slade fan club magazine interview, guitarist Dave Hill was asked if using female backing vocals on the album caused the limited success of the album. Hill replied "Yeah, I think that had a bit of a negative vibe with some of the fans. I think that they didn't like women singing on our records. As much as we enjoyed the idea, it had a bit of a negative response. We quite liked the sound of some of the black singers over there, you see. When you're successful, people pick on things."
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