BEATLE LENNON'S XMAS 'GIFT'

SLADE have amassed an incredible 21 Top 20 hits - but it's their festive anthem Merry Xmas Everybody that is still most played.

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And Dave tells how the band had Beatles legend John Lennon to thank for it being recorded. In the summer of 1973, Slade were in New York and, Dave explains: "The record company wanted us to release a Christmas song. Noddy a