S3E3: Noddy Holder

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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This week on Rockonteurs we meet the total tour de force that is Noddy Holder. Slade were one of the UK’s most successful bands of the 1970s with a string of unforgettable hits. In this episode he chats to Guy and Gary about those ‘crazee’ days that included driving a young Robert Plant around, his love of Little Richard, inventing part of the stage runway that all the major acts of today use and trying to avoid playing THE Christmas song to an audience of 65,000 at the Reading Festival in the middle of summer! Noddy is a legend and you can hear the band at their live best in ‘All The World Is A Stage’ – it’s as good a live box set as you’ll hear. It’s out now! Rockonteurs is produced by Gimme Sugar Productions

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0:00.0	Morning Guy.
0:01.0	Morning Guy.
0:02.0	How are we?
0:03.0	Well, I'm excited because, you know, Slade were one of my first loves.
0:07.0	Slade were my actual first love.
0:09.0	They were the first records I bought, I can honestly say, to the exclusion of T-Rex. it was like I thought you couldn't like T-Rex if you like Sla.
0:15.6	See I had hot love and and get it on come and feel the noise was probably about my third or fourth record and
0:22.3	sorry because I love you I should say that was the one I bought and I went to see them the first band I ever saw live at the Palladium.
0:30.0	Okay you win. I win. Do I? Thank you. But, so I am excited because, you know,
0:36.6	No, I'm excited. It's, it's Noddy and I've got, I didn't meet him. Well, actually, we'll save it, but
0:41.9	um, the time I met him because I was very chuffed.
0:44.5	And, but yeah, one of the great, also the man behind the greatest burp in rock and roll history.
0:50.5	That's right. I mean, also, I mean, we forget how big they were this was the biggest band since the Beatles
0:58.8	I mean absolutely huge. I think more number ones in the 70s than anyone else
1:04.3	Slade except there was like six wasn't it? Yeah, I mean I think Slade alive when in
1:09.8	It was the biggest selling album since Sergeantppers, you know, I mean it was
1:13.5	absolutely huge and one of their singles were the first single to ever go straight in at
1:17.0	number one since get back. That's right and they had three. They then had three that went straight in at
1:20.4	number one. Anyway, enough of us.
1:21.8	Oh, oh! Welcome to the rock on tours.
1:26.6	Okay guys, I'm ready. But it's a big tune for sure. I actually wrote that originally for
1:31.4	Tina Turner. Of course I had gone and found Joni Mitchell,
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