"Are you hanging up your stocking on the wall?" No, Slade, of course we're not, it's October.It seems to get earlier every year, but Noddy Holder's distinctive cry of 'It's Chriiiiiiiistmas' at the beginning of the band's 1973 festive hit Merry Xmas Everybody signals the start of the season - no matter what the John Lewis marketing department and those chancers over at Starbucks with their red cups might try to tell you.The band, formed in the West Midlands in the late Sixties, are...
