High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Return to Base.... was an album by the British rock group Slade. It was released on 1 October 1979 and did not enter the charts. The album`s cover didn`t help matters either. It`s said that the band were so low on money at the time they didn`t have the funds to hire a photographer, so all the album got was a plain red cover with the title stamped at the top. The 1993 Polydor CD reissue added all four band member`s signatures on the front cover.