Coz I Luv You

"Coz I Luv You" is a song by the British rock band Slade, released in 1971 as a non-album single.

It was written by lead vocalist Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea, and produced by Chas Chandler.

One evening, Lea turned up at Holder's home with his violin and an idea for a song after hearing "Nine By Nine" by the John Dummer Blues Band.

The pair wrote the song in half an hour and began the successful songwriting partnership of Holder/Lea, which would go on to write the bulk of Slade's material.

"Hot Love" was in the charts at the time - Marc Bolan, and I said something like that, dead simple and we wrote the song in half an hour.

"[13] "Coz I Luv You" was released on 7" vinyl by Polydor Records in the United Kingdom, Ireland, across Europe, Scandinavia, Yugoslavia, Israel, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil and Japan.

[19] "Coz I Luv You" was later featured in the 1998 film Velvet Goldmine and in the launch advert for the Ford Transit.

[citation needed] The song also features in the 2004 film El Lobo (also known as The Wolf), a political thriller revolving around the Spanish terrorist group ETA.

[22] New Musical Express said the song "should satisfy both the mainstream pop and the heavy brigade", describing it as a "rousing hard-hitting number, generating bags of electricity and urgency, but nevertheless blessed with a strong melody line and a chorus".

[23] In 2011, The Guardian retrospectively said: "It was all about the stomp: "Coz I Luv You"'s bootboy rhythm anchored its swirling, menacing violin line and the two combined to give this single its frightening, primitive edge.