2011

Ever since Slade’s biggest hit Merry Christmas Everybody in 1973, people have associated me with Christmas – this is me at a carol concert at Manchester Cathedral – and some probably think I hibernate the rest of the year. When we recorded it we were very popular, but no way did I think it’d still be going strong 47 years later. I get dead chuffed when kids come up to me saying, ‘You’re the man who sings that Christmas song.’ It’s also produced a nice pension plan for Slade. I quit the band in 1992 and we don’t have much contact now, but I see Dave now and then.