Noddy Holder

While singer Neville John “Noddy” Holder and his band Slade are mainly known in the US for the band Quiet Riot covering their songs Cum on Feel the Noize and Mama Weer All Crazee Now, in the UK Noddy and his band were monster superstars, with five songs reaching #1 and a couple dozen hits en toto.

Before his success as a frontman, Noddy also was a roadie for The Band of Joy, a band famous mainly for being the origin-point of a number of rock stars, including Noddy but also Robert Plant and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin.

In the US, Noddy and his band’s highest charting song and only major hit was Run Runaway, reaching #20 on the billboard hot 100.