There's bands that've been going for 25 years - but not with the same line-up. No band has ever achieved that, with the same line-up for that long. We had the same line-up together for 25 years. And that's why we stuck at it as a band for so long. It was looked on as a long-term proposition. It wasn't going to be an overnight thing. We always looked on it - me in particular, as a long-term thing. If you just go in with the intention of making a fast buck, it's not going to work. It certainly wouldn't in those days, and I don't think it will today. If you want to do it as a quick killing - nothing's going to happen. But you have to be if you want to get into the rock 'n' roll business, and if you want to look at it as a long-term career. But Slade always came across as a highly motivated band. You've got to have that level of self-belief.Īs Blur say it, 'Confidence is a preference'. And you've got to have that confidence in the band. We had that sort of youthful cockiness to think that we were the best in the land. And that when we did break through it would snowball for us. But we had no doubt in our minds that we would break through at some point. It was just a matter of having the luck to have the right record at the right time to get the breaks, that was the only thing we ever doubted. But we always had amazing confidence in ourselves. NH: We-e-e-ell, it obviously crosses your mind. er, Bob Monkhouse.ĭuring your long early days of small-time bands and failed singles was there ever a time when you thought it wasn't going to happen, that you weren't going to make it? And yes - they're every bit as 'absolutely fantastic' as. That's the point of an autobiography." So what follows are further excerpts from the Noddy Holder autobiography. What I really wanted to write about was why I wanted to get into the music business in the first place. That's been well-documented in the past anyway. "So if my book is 'alf as good as 'is I'll be very happy. Surely, writing your 'life and times' is generally accepted as being the final full stop at the end of a long and distinguished career? Neville 'Noddy' Holder merely grins, "the most recent book I read was the Bob Monkhouse autobiography Crying With Laughter, which is absolutely fantastic" he explains. So come on Nod - be honest, with this book you're writing yourself into history, which must seem a little strange. I join him on a literary tour designed to promote Who's Crazee Now? through local radio chat-slots, bookshop talks and signings. ![]() You hear that same engagingly self-mocking voice in his tell-all book too, in stories about travelling from his childhood in the Black Country, through his pre-Slade scuffing bands during the 1960s - into his vital role in the over-the-top sartorial excesses of glam-rock, and its aftermath. I was screaming when I hit daylight," - that accent is still as distinctively rich across the years. And although today Noddy's sideboards might be sparser, his outfit less flamboyant - purple shirt, long black drape jacket, stretch-side black boots, with his gold-rimmed spectacles worn Larry Grayson-style on black expander-twine around his neck, when he says "I was born being rowdy. In the accent, all the way from Walsall - just north of Brum - which transmutes 'kipper tie' into 'cup of tea'. The secret, of course, is in the telling. ![]() Then the assistant says "would sir like a kipper tie?" I reply "Not 'alf, I'm parched. ![]() I try on a pair of gold lame loon pants, and I'm admiring them in the mirror when the assistant asks if I'd like to try on a silver shirt too, which I do, and that looks fantastic too. "It's set in 1974 and I'm playing the Pop Star, shopping in a trendy boutique. So right here, right now, Noddy gleefully re-tells the story against himself. He calls it his 'Noddy Holder' joke, right?" Right. NODDY HOLDER interviewed by Andrew Darlington
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