You can relive your youth - Dave Hills Slade are on the O2 Academy on the 12th of December! (Still rocking at 77).I went to try & get in to see Slade of a ticket tout not a ticket to be found Dave Hill fell off the stage & broke his leg
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The two best band members missing - Jimmy Lea has sadly been ill with Parkinson's disease for a few years - Noddy Holder did not want to know a reunion as Dave asked him many times - as the pair of them have their pension in writing the famous Christmas song - Noddy & Jim were the main musicians in that band IMO -
So no I would not be itching to go as its not even nostalgia with the two main band members missing - its not even nostalgia - plus a lot of live bands now from the past have the music played via the amps - even the Eagles -
I would have liked to have seen them in there pomp - they were a great live band - I was disappointed not to get a ticket at the Liverpool stadium back then ....
They were a good band ...
….Elliot St, looking towards Lime St;
Fixed that for you mert
….1969, top of Meadow Lane;
Saw Hawkwind once at Portsmouth Guildhall. Or could have been Southampton Gaumont. Does anyone remember when bands used to play in theater sized buildings. Saw Genesis, Police, Thin Lizzy in the above.
….i saw Elton John at the Empire circa 1974. My 97yo Mother-in-Law told me she saw Nat King Cole on the Empire, that’s so impressive. It was only in the early 70’s that Stevie Wonder was playing in Liverpool night clubs, crazy to think of that now.
Are you sure Jimmy Lea has Parkinsons?? No mention of it round here and I saw him in some photos on Facebook last week he put up, are you getting him mixed up with Glenn Tipton from Judus Priest who is suffering from it?
Neil Sadaka on his comeback tour in the UK in the 1970s was on at the Shakespeare club - My late parents went to see him on their 50th wedding anniversary he did a full show - he did his recordings of his hits by a future band who he advised to form their own band as they were great producers in a small recording studio in Manchester they became 10cc....
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….weirdly, I also saw 10cc on The Empire in the mid-70s.
Thought I read he had it a few years ago sorry it was not parkingsons it was this -
Yes, Jim Lea, the former bassist for the band Slade, has been ill. He was diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer -
he was a fantastic musician played most of the lead guitar roles for Slade plus up there with the Who's bassist Entwistle who he modeled himself on - Frank Zappa once stated what the hell is Jim Lea doing in Slade a fantastic base guitarist.....
Allegedly, The Carpenters (she was suffering with Anorexia and was sometimes less than professional) had one of those 1yr long gigs at Vegas with Neil Sedaka as the opening warm up act
He kept getting better reviews...with again allegedly, some people walked out when he finished, not waiting to see the star turn.
Her brother fired him.
Great violin player too!!, Don't know why Zappa had to diss Slade, great glam rock group