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Celebrating Slade’s ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’, 50 years on
I was barely six years old when ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’ became Slade’s third single of 1973 to go straight in at the top of the UK charts. But I have vague memories from around then, and the Radio Times listings … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andy Strickland, Cathy Cassidy, Daevid Goral Barker, Dave Hill, Don Powell, guildford, Hammersmith Odeon, JC Carroll, Jim lea, Johnnie Walker, Merry Xmas Everybody, Noddy Holder, Pete Keeley, Record Mirror, Slade, Spenwood books, Suzi Quatro, Sweet, The Beatles, The Jam, Top of the Pops, Wild! Wild! Wild! A People’s History of Slade, Wizzard
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Room at the top – The Loft and beyond with Andy Strickland
Three and a half decades after they dramatically broke up, mid-song, on a London stage on the final night of a nationwide tour, The Loft continue to inspire, with interest in this influential four-piece seemingly perpetual and having just led … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alan McGee, Andy Strickland, Bill Prince, Cornwall Coliseum, Danny Kelly, Dave Morgan, Davey Goldsworthy, Gideon Coe, Isle of Wight, Jesus and Mary Chain, John Peel, London, Microdisney, Penetration, Pete Hadfield, Polytechnic of Central London, Record Mirror, Simon Barber, The Caretaker Race, The Chesterfields, The colourfield, The Fall, The Go-Betweens, The Living Room, The Loft
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