Top Ten Noddy Nuggets as West Midlands prepares to honour Slade Frontman

Noddy Holder receives the Freedom of Walsall today Credit: Yui Mok/PA Archive/Press Association Images

The West Midlands is preparing to honour Noddy Holder today, by presenting Slade's lead vocalist and guitarist with the Freedom of Walsall.

Noddy Holder already has a star on Broad Street's famous Walk of Stars.

  • Noddy Holder's first name is Neville

  • Noddy's autobiography is called Who's Crazee Now? and was published in 2000

  • The band's 1985 single 'Do you believe in miracles?', written by Holder, is said to be a tribute to the Band Aid founder Bob Geldof.

  • 'Merry Christmas Everybody' was Christmas No.1 in the year 1973

  • The band's first UK chart entry was 'Get down and get with it' which reached No.16 in 1971

  • Slade's first No.1 was 'Coz I love you'

  • The band's fondness for creative spelling in the song titles caused much outcry in the press for being a bad influence on schoolchildren!

  • Slade were the first band to have a song enter the UK chart at No.1 since The Beatles

  • 'Merry Christmas Everybody' stayed at No.1 for five weeks

  • Oasis covered 'Cum on feel the noise' in 1996

Top Ten facts courtesy of FunTrivia.com

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