What is "rogues gallery"

n. (alternative spelling of rogues' gallery English)

A rogues gallery (or rogues' gallery) is a police collection of pictures or photographs of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes. The term is also used figuratively for any group of shady characters or the line-up of " mugshot" photographs that might be displayed in the halls of a dormitory or workplace or on an online mugshot publishing website.

Rogues Gallery is the twelfth studio album by the British rock group Slade. It was released on 29 March 1985 and reached number 60 in the UK charts. The band tried hard to make this album contain radio-friendly hit singles and quality material, but because the album was released more than a year after their two Top 10 singles had been riding high, many critics claimed the momentum and public interest in Slade were waning. In fact, this album contained more singles than any of their others, including their Seventies efforts.

The album was released in the US on the CBS label, with the band's 1981 UK hit " Lock Up Your Daughters" (the original of which had appeared on the Till Deaf Do Us Part album four years earlier) replacing " All Join Hands." The tracks also had a slightly different sequence.

Noddy Holder explained in a New Zealand television interview at the time of release that the band had set out to write an album where every track could be a single. The band believed they achieved this and Holder stated the band hoped to release all tracks as singles somewhere in the world.

Rogues gallery may refer to:

• Rogues gallery, a police collection of pictures or photographs of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes
  • In comics, a specific superhero's recurring and most notable enemies are sometimes referred to as a rogues gallery (see List of Batman Family enemies for one such example). The enemies of The Flash even formed a group called The Rogues
• Rogues' Gallery (1944 film)
• Rogues' Gallery (TV series), a British series from the 1960s
• Rogues' Gallery (1968 film), a 1968 mystery film
• Rogues Gallery (album), a 1985 album by Slade
• Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys, a 2006 album
• The Rogues Gallery, an accessory booklet for the first-edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game
• Rogue's Gallery (radio), an old-time radio program that aired in the 1940s and early 50s with private detective Richard Rogue being portrayed at various times by Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Paul Stewart, and Chester Morris
• Rogues' Gallery: The Secret History of the Mogul and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum, a 2009 book by Michael Gross
• Rogues' Gallery Cipher, an alternate name for the Vigenère cipher