I wouldn’t post pictures from a school on the internet mate. My wife’s school had a very strong restriction on it with the approval of all of the parents.
Let’s stop All the bitching and moaning eh merry Christmas Henry https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/new...-news/little-henry-hoping-spend-first-6392344
Mrs mop has just reminded me we’ve been together 40 years… **** another anniversary I forgot… I said if I’m still breathing on our 50th we’ll celebrate… unless I forget again …
Everybody wants to know how much I make’: Noddy Holder on Merry Xmas Everybody With the 1973 No 1 back in the charts, Slade’s original frontman chats sideburns, custard pies and royalties Rich Pelley please log in to view this image I’m about halfway through my interview with Noddy Holder – as in Slade’s “It’s Chrissstmass” Noddy Holder – and I really need to ask him that question. Except, isn’t it a bit rude? A man’s finances are his own personal kingdom … “I bet I know what you’re going to ask,” laughs Holder. “You’re going to ask me … how much money do I make each year? Everybody wants to know how much money we make!” A day doesn’t go by without someone shouting ‘It’s Chrisssstmass!’ at me at the top of their voice It’s certainly a valid question. Merry Xmas Everybody was released in 1973 (Slade’s third No 1 of the year after Cum On Feel The Noize and Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me) and has charted eight times in the 80s, twice in the 90s and every year since 2006. It’s currently number 30 in the charts, has been streamed 88m times on Spotify and has been released for the first time this year with a video, an animation that has had more than 150,000 views and counting. Surely the royalties must keep Holder rolling in top hats, platform shoes and luxury sideburn shampoo? “Well, I can’t put a figure on, because it’s just different every year,” says Holder, cryptically. “Some years it’s used in an advert or movie. There’s been all sorts of cover versions, from the Spice Girls, Tony Christie and Oasis” – Noel Gallagher recorded an acoustic version for The Royle Family’s 2000 Christmas special. “I’ll get my annual PRS [Performing Right Society] statement and the cross-section of artists who perform it on their Christmas tours is amazing. All four of the original Slade share performing rights but it just happens that Jim [Lea] and me were the main writers, so we earn more.” Oh, go on, give me a figure, I plead. “It’s like having a hit record every year. So it’s a nice pension plan, I’ll say that,” Holder smiles. The PRS has quoted £512,000 annually, but the Daily Mail reckons it’s more like a cool £1m. Merry Xmas Everybody came about after a challenge from one of Jim Lea’s elderly relatives, and was written in one sitting after a night down the pub. please log in to view this image From left: Jim Lea, Don Powell, Noddy Holder and Dave Hill in 1973. Photograph: Roger Bamber/Rex Features “Jim’s mother-in-law said: ‘How come that you’ve never written a song that could played every year for a birthday, Christmas or Valentine’s Day?’ The first song I’d ever written, in 1967, was this hippy, psychedelic song called Buy Me a Rocking Chair to Watch the World Go By, but the rest of the band said it was rubbish. Jim had this melody knocking around, so he put my hook and chorus into his verse and played it to me round his house. That night, I was drinking with the locals and my best mate, our tour manager, Graham Swinnerton – Swinny – at this jazz pub called the Trumpet in Wolverhampton. I went back to my old bedroom at my mum and dad’s, rather merry, and wrote the lyrics in one go.” Slade had just finished a big European tour in July 1973; the first ever band to play Earl’s Court. Four days later, Slade’s drummer, Don Powell, was in a car crash, killing his girlfriend and putting him on life support for six weeks. “The doctors said if he’s ever going to play the drums again, he needs to get behind a drumkit as soon as possible,” says Holder. “Our manager, Chas Chandler, decided we should head to New York, out of the limelight, to record Merry Xmas Everybody. The studio was within an office complex, so we went out on to the staircases to add echo to the choruses. People were going about their business with these four mad Englishmen screaming at the top of our voices about Christmas. It was a boiling hot New York summer in August, so hardly Christmassy. Plus Don couldn’t remember the drum part, so we had to record it in tiny pieces.” With pre-orders of 600,000, Merry Xmas Everyone went straight to No 1 for six weeks, selling over a million all over Europe. “So we did TV shows in Scandinavia, Germany, France and Belgium,” continues Holder. “The big one was Christmas Day Top Of The Pops 1973. We beat Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday to Christmas No 1 – fellow Brummies and good mates – so they snuck into the audience and pelted me with custard pies. So that’s the performance I remember.” So is Holder surprised that Merry Xmas Everybody is still as loved nearly 50 years later? “We never dreamt that it would still be so popular. I came up with the line ‘Look to the future now, it’s only just begun,’ because the country at the time was in a terrible state with electricians, bakers, miners and gravediggers all on strike. It’s just as valid today because of the state the country. Look the future, it really has only just begun. “People associate me with Christmas, like I’m Santa’s little helper. I’m sure they half expect to see me walking down the street in platform shoes and a top hat shouting “It’s Chrissstmass!” They forget we had about 40 other hit singles. A day doesn’t go by without someone shouting “It’s Chrissstmass!” at me at the top of their voice. When I’m doing my Christmas shopping, I probably get it 40 times a day. But after 50 years, it still makes me smile.”
I love this time of year. As I sit here looking at all of the joint Christmas gifts for our daughter sitting under the tree...wondering what on earth I got her this year please log in to view this image
One year turned up at my mams just before christmas with the family, we were going out shopping and asked mam if she needed anything for christmas dinner, no nothing came the reply it's all bought in already and the will be plenty of meat for everyone as she has got one of those five legged chicken things. please log in to view this image
Just had my festive email from the England Team / the FA - 'Happy Holidays' - it's Christmas you dozy ****ing idiots - stop trying to cancel a Christian festival
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/labour-love-historic-hull-pub-6392882 That’s good to see god knows who will go in it now tho. Used to go in there regularly on a Friday dinner Cracking pint of tetley Anyone remember that glass collector used to swipe your beer if there was half a pint in it sometimes! Albert?? I think
We use to play football on a midweek night round the corner from there. 20 or so aging neverbeens, after going in the pub a few times after the game the landlord asked me why we came in at the same time on the same night. I told him, he then said he’d put some food on for us in future if we were coming in regular. **** me the following week there was a spread on and every week after for about a year. I would look forward to those nights all week, the bruise’s and aches and pains not so much but the grub and ale ..abso-****ing-lutley… great days!!!!
I used to go in there every Monday night after football, he made us sandwiches and sausage rolls, the sandwiches generally had a few pubes in them, but other than that they were alright. Skagheads used to come in every week, trying to sell the bacon and cheese they just nicked from the supermarket up the road.
This mix of peas and wheat pretending to be gammon cost 5.50 in Sainsburys please log in to view this image A real gammon roast from Asda 3.85 you can get 3 for a tenner Worlds gone mad.
