Slade’s Noddy Holder opens up on friendship with Freddie Mercury in rare TV appearance

Watch Slade’s Noddy Holder opens up on friendship with Freddie Mercury in rare TV appearance - The Independent on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00 Did you choose those clothes? Of course!

00:02 I made some of them myself. Did you?

00:04 See? Yeah. I made the top hat with mirrors.

00:07 Did you? Yeah. How?

00:08 I bought the hat in Kensington Market.

00:11 People think I bought it off Freddie Mercury,

00:14 but I went to Kenny Market.

00:15 Freddie used to have a stall there,

00:17 him and Roger from Queen, selling shirts and paraphernalia.

00:21 Right. And I went down Kenny Market,

00:23 used to buy shirts off him.

00:25 And Freddie... Can I have one of them? No, this is...

00:27 And Freddie used to say to me, "Doddy darling,

00:30 "I'm going to be a big pop star like you one day."

00:33 I said, "Get off, Freddie."

00:35 In more colourful language.

00:37 I said, "Go on, Freddie, you're never going to be a pop star."

00:40 He showed me, didn't he? Yeah.

00:42 And anyway, two stalls down,

00:44 they used to sell old Victorian memorabilia.

00:47 And I bought the top hat there and stuck my own mirrors on

00:50 and it became a famous icon of the glam rock era.

00:54 How did you stick them on? With what? Glue? Glue!

00:56 It was very heavy.

00:58 I used to wear it for three songs on the concert.