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That's What Friends Are For is a song from rock band Slade which was released as the second single from the 1987 album ''You Boyz Make Big Noize''. The song was written by lead singer Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea. It was produced by Roy Thomas Baker. ==Background== Following the band's moderate success with the 1985 album ''Rogues Gallery'', the band started recording their next album in 1986. The band hoped that the album, if it could become a commercial success, would catapult the band to where they felt they belonged. The first single "Still The Same" was released in February 1987 but stalled at #73 in the UK chart. "That's What Friends Are For" was the album's next single, rush-released in April 1987 shortly after the album's own release. Despite being another radio-friendly song with a pop-based sound using synthesizers and a mass-group vocal chorus, the single only peaked at #95 in the UK, spending just one week on the chart in early May that year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Official Charts Company - That's What Friends Are For by Slade Search )〕 Partly due to the band's lack of commercial success from the beginning of 1985, the song was to be Slade's last UK release under RCA Records, although RCA would agree to distribute the following Cheapskate Records single "You Boyz Make Big Noize" in July 1987, and also issued the final Slade RCA single "Ooh La La in L.A." in America and Germany only around the same time. The single came from Slade's final studio album. The song's producer Roy Thomas Baker would also produce the album track "Love is Like a Rock" from the same album however, due to his costly and time consuming style of working, he used most of the album's budget on the two tracks alone. As a result, he had to be dropped from producing any further tracks, although he did start work on a third; the album closer "It's Hard Having Fun Nowadays". "That's What Friends Are For" was recorded at Wessex Studios, which was the same studio used for the recordings of "Love is Like a Rock" and part of "The Roaring Silence".〔Slade's 2007 Salvo remastered You Boyz Make Big Noize album booklet notes〕 On 27 March 1987, guitarist Dave Hill was interviewed at Music Works Studio by fans Trevor Slaughter and Nomis, where the band were recording the future single and title track "You Boyz Make Big Noize". This interview was published in the Slade International Fan Club Newsletter of April-June 1987. In the interview Hill was asked for updates on the present position of the album and next single. Hill revealed ''"Well, the album was supposed to be released towards the end of April, but in view of the fact that "Still the Same" wasn't a hit, RCA may wait a little longer until the next single peaks before releasing the album. As you know, Roy Thomas Baker has produced two songs, "Love is Like a Rock" and "That's What Friends Are For". "That's What Friends Are For" looks to be the next single, mainly because there's a certain person up at RCA who is going wally over it. We are, however, doing a new song here now, which is a sort of 'rock rap' thing with a Beastie Boys feel to it. This track is provisionally called "You Boyz Make Big Noize"."'' In the same interview Hill was asked if he could talk through each song on the album, and for "That's What Friends Are For" he stated ''"Another track produced by Roy Thomas Baker. This is a 'scarf waver' type of number, which now looks fairly definite for the next single."'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「That's What Friends Are For (Slade song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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