OHMYGOSSIP — Noddy Holder never tires of talking about ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’.
Slade topped the UK charts in December 1973 with the iconic Christmas song, and although he’s been reminded of it every festive season for nearly 50 years, Noddy still loves talking about the single.
He said: “This record, my record, is going 47 years this year. That’s a hell of a time.
“But I still get a kick when young kids come up to me in the street and they say, ‘Oh, you’re that Mr Christmas, ain’t you?’ and I say, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah’, ‘You sung that Christmas song?’ ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah’. And they say, ‘We’ve just done that at our carol concert at school,’ so that’s a good legacy to have. That’s brilliant for us.”
The hit single features Noddy, 74, screaming his “It’s Christmas!” catchphrase.
And the Slade star has admitted he gets it shouted at him all the time.
Speaking to Robbie Williams on ‘At Home with the Williamses’, he shared: “The worst time it happens is if I’m in a restaurant, having a meal with my mates or my family or whatever, and they’re shouting it across the restaurant at the top of their voice.
“I’m trying to hide in a corner, sort of thing, especially around December time, you get all the Christmas parties in. Because I know the Christmas tape’s going on the sound system in the restaurant … so, I’m sort of heads down. And then, of course, somebody on their way to the bog, off the Christmas party, will pass my table.
“Then, it swiftly gets round the restaurant that I’m in, and then they all want it, you know? They all want me to sing along with it then, on a table or something.
“That gets really embarrassing, that.”
‘At Home with the Williamses’ is available across all major podcast platforms.
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