Noddy Holder remembers the exact time when he finally realised how massively – make that unbelievably – popular Slade had become in Britain.
It was the morning of July 5, 1973, and the story made front-page headlines on just about every UK national daily newspaper: Slade drummer Don Powell had been seriously injured after crashing his Bentley the night before. A passenger in the vehicle – Powell’s girlfriend and soon-to-be wife, Angela – had been killed. Powell had to be dragged from the mangled wreckage and taken to intensive care.
