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You know the festive season is well and truly under way when in every supermarket and pub in the land you hear the raucous tones of seventies superlads Slade, betting out their 1973 hit Merry Xmas Everybody. Proving that old pop stars never die, the boys came to the Ford Central Office at Warley, Essex to pick up the keys of a Ford Transit tour bus for their forthcoming Christmas UK tour.
Band members Steve Whalley, Dave Hill, Trevor Holliday and Don Powell (but where's Noddy?) are clearly chuffed with their Transit Tournel GLX minibus, complete with Slade fist and Union Jack. The tour runs until 24 December and takes in Glasgow, Blackpool, Guildford, the Isle of Wight and Bristol.
Apparently the Slade/Ford relationship came about when the single Coz I Luv You featured in an advert for the Ford Transit. Spelling was never their strong point...The Hawk recalls another hit Cum on Feel the Noize. "So cum on feel the noize, girls grab the boys, we get wild, wild, wild..." is howl believe it went.