Slade’s Noddy Holder diagnosed with cancer five years ago, wife reveals

Noddy Holder performing on Top of the Pops in 1973. His wife said he ‘continues to be his mischievous, irrepressible self’. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images

Noddy Holder, the frontman of Slade, was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer five years ago, his wife has revealed.

Doctors told Holder that he had six months to live, Suzan Holder wrote in Cheshire Life magazine on Thursday, but she said Holder, 77, had responded well to experimental chemotherapy and “coped with amazing good humour and breath-taking bravery”.