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Happy 72nd birthday, Dave Hill, of Slade
You know my opinion: there is no such thing as too much glam.
Dave Hill
David John "Dave" Hill (born 4 April 1946) is an English musician, who is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist in the English glam rock group, Slade. Hill is known for his flamboyant stage clothes and hairstyle. The music journalist Stuart Maconie commented "he usually wore a jumpsuit made of the foil that you baste your turkeys in and platforms of oil-rig-derrick height. All of this though paled in comparison with his coiffure, a sort of demented tonsure with a great scooping fringe. He even had one outfit around 1973 famously called his 'Metal Nun' suit but later styles were much toned down."
David John "Dave" Hill (born 4 April 1946) is an English musician, who is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist in the English glam rock group, Slade. Hill is known for his flamboyant stage clothes and hairstyle. The music journalist Stuart Maconie commented "he usually wore a jumpsuit made of the foil that you baste your turkeys in and platforms of oil-rig-derrick height. All of this though paled in comparison with his coiffure, a sort of demented tonsure with a great scooping fringe. He even had one outfit around 1973 famously called his 'Metal Nun' suit but later styles were much toned down."
But there was a dark side:
‘Mr Jolly’ Slade guitarist Dave Hill opens up about his years of depression
WITH his trademark hairstyle, flamboyant outfits and outrageous on-stage persona, to his millions of fans guitarist Dave Hill always seemed to be the life and soul of the party.
By CAROL DAVIS
PUBLISHED: 08:57, Tue, Nov 28, 2017 | UPDATED: 09:31, Tue, Nov 28, 2017
“I’m always smiling and people tell me I look as though I never have a bad day,” says Dave, 71, best known as one of the founding members of Seventies glam rock group Slade.
Yet despite selling millions of records – their classic Christmas anthem Merry Xmas Everybody has charted every year since 1973 – Dave has battled depression on and off for more than 10 years.
His newly released autobiography, So Here It Is, which charts more than 50 years in the music industry, also reveals his struggle to recover from the stroke he suffered four years ago and then an accident which badly damaged his arm.
Dave, who lives near Wolverhampton with wife Jan, first experienced depression 10 years ago after surgery for a double hernia. ... “I was really in a dark hole and on medication,” admits the father of three grown-up children – Jade, Bibi and Sam – and grandfather of three.
....
Dave Hill in the 1970s
WITH his trademark hairstyle, flamboyant outfits and outrageous on-stage persona, to his millions of fans guitarist Dave Hill always seemed to be the life and soul of the party.
By CAROL DAVIS
PUBLISHED: 08:57, Tue, Nov 28, 2017 | UPDATED: 09:31, Tue, Nov 28, 2017
“I’m always smiling and people tell me I look as though I never have a bad day,” says Dave, 71, best known as one of the founding members of Seventies glam rock group Slade.
Yet despite selling millions of records – their classic Christmas anthem Merry Xmas Everybody has charted every year since 1973 – Dave has battled depression on and off for more than 10 years.
His newly released autobiography, So Here It Is, which charts more than 50 years in the music industry, also reveals his struggle to recover from the stroke he suffered four years ago and then an accident which badly damaged his arm.
Dave, who lives near Wolverhampton with wife Jan, first experienced depression 10 years ago after surgery for a double hernia. ... “I was really in a dark hole and on medication,” admits the father of three grown-up children – Jade, Bibi and Sam – and grandfather of three.
....
Dave Hill in the 1970s
That's Dave in the gold lamé suit:
Here he is wearing CDs before there were CDs:
Gudbuy T'Jane, from a Musikladen video: