Not at all.

You see the REAL money in music comes from the publishing so Noddy Holder and Jim Lea of Slade (the songwriters) made a lot of money off of this song becoming such a smash.

Quiet Riot earned fame from this song but financially not so much in part to again not having written it but also because their recording contract was one which did not benefit them.

It is possible Slade did not like the performance of Quiet Riot but they loved every single bit of the fact that the song became a hit song and sold a lot of singles/albums and mammoth radio/MTV airplay as this earned them money.

Go out now and ask some unheard of country music singer/songwriter if they would like to have Kenny Chesney/Jason Aldea/Garth Brooks/Luke Bryan cut one of their songs and they will each answer affirmatively before you can even finish the question.

Sure, maybe deep down they will wish THEIR version of the song became the hit and ego wise perhaps it can bother when fans believe their favorite artist wrote it while the songwriter remains unknown but the bank account knows.

In fact, Slade was able to make a dent in the USA because of Quiet Riot and their success with two Slade covers as this resulted in Slade having a modest hit with 1984’s “Run Runaway” which made it to #20 and gave the band a breakthrough hit in the states.

Nobody in Slade resented that Quiet Riot recording save for perhaps wishing deep down that the USA audience had in fact discovered them rather than the cover version.