Behind the music Slade drummer Don Powell


Don Powell Slade drummer visits The Beatles Story The Beatles Story, Liverpool

Legendary Slade drummer Don Powell has been allowed home from hospital just 48 hours after a four-and-a-half-hour operation for bowel cancer. By Ian Harvey Published May 21, 2022 Last updated.


Behind the music Slade drummer Don Powell

We haven't done one since the magazine folded in 1984, but when the opportunity arose to interview Don Powell, the drummer of Slade, it made sense to revive the form. He was a most agreeable and entertaining subject, with loads of great memories. Slade in a New York hotel, 1973: (l-r) Noddy Holder, Don Powell, Jim Lea, Dave Hill.


BBC Radio Derby Andy Potter, Slade drummer Don Powell and TV with Daniel David Webber, Slade

Biography Don was born on 10 September 1946 in Bilston, Staffordshire - and christened Donald George Powell. He had a fairly normal childhood. When his young his parents obtained their very first home - a council property in Bilston - an industrial area of the West Midlands. His parents were Walter (Wally) and Dora Powell.


Slade's Don Powell returns to Wolverhampton to mark special anniversary Express & Star

Ben Beaumont-Thomas. Thu Feb 6 2020 - 10:50. One of pop's most enduring partnerships has come to an end, not with a bang but an email. Don Powell, the drummer with the glam-rock band Slade, says.


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Noddy Holder and Jim Lea quit the group way back in 1992, and more controversially drummer Don Powell was forced from the band by Hill in 2020 after half a century in Slade. The story is that Hill unceremoniously dumped Powell via an email, but in a Q&A session with fans, Noddy Holder has sought to set the record straight, saying that it is.


Slade drummer Don Powell prepares to publish his autobiography Birmingham Mail

Don Powell, the drummer with glam rock band Slade, says he has been fired from a group that has existed in one form or another since 1964, by guitarist Dave Hill. "It is with great sadness.


Slade split up after 50 years as drummer Don Powell is sacked by email Ents & Arts News Sky News

Don Powell. Actor: Slade in Flame. Don Powell was born on 10 September 1946 in Bilston, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Slade in Flame (1975), Das war der wilde Osten (1992) and Slade: My Oh My (1983).


Don Powell Slade drummer visits The Beatles Story The Beatles Story, Liverpool

Donald George Powell (born 10 September 1946) is an English musician who was the drummer for glam rock and later hard rock group Slade for over fifty years. Early life As a child, Powell joined the Boy Scouts where he became interested in the drums after being asked to join the band on a Sunday morning parade.


I still can't remember tragic crash, says Slade drummer Don Powell Express & Star

22:00, Wed, Nov 2, 2022 Bookmark Don Powell was the drummer for rock band Slade (Image: Getty) To this day, that tragedy remains a blur. In 1973, Slade were at number one with Skweeze Me,.


Glum rocker! Veteran Slade drummer Don Powell is axed... so he sets up a rival band with same

The original Slade line-up featuring Don Powell (second from right) Why you can trust Sky News Slade's original drummer has been sacked from the glam rock group after being a member for more than 50 years. Don Powell, 73, had been a member of the group, which is best known for its Christmas hit Merry Xmas Everybody, since the 1960s.


Britische band Slade am 9. Februar 1985 in München. (LR) Jim Lea, Dave Hill, Don Powell und

Guitarist Dave Hill is now the only remaining original member of the band, with drummer Don Powell announcing last year that he'd been fired over email after over 50 years with the group. Read.


Slade drummer Don Powell 'fired by email' after 57year partnership Pop and rock The Guardian

Published May 14, 2021. Last updated May 16, 2021. Don Powell. He emails five minutes after the interview ends. He always does. Don Powell, Slade legend, all-round good bloke, keeper of beats.


Slade legend Don Powell to meet fans at Wolverhampton book signing Express & Star

Don Powell, the Slade drummer who has worked alongside guitarist and fellow Slade co-founder Dave Hill since 1963, has announced his departure from the band in a statement on his website.


Slade drummer Don Powell talks ahead of anniversary shows Express & Star

Legendary Slade drummer and co-founder Don Powell has been diagnosed with bowel cancer. The Slade Are For Life - Not Just For Christmas Facebook page has shared a photo of Don Powell in hospital where he has undergone an operation today (Thursday 19th May) after his diagnosis just a week ago.


Slade drummer Don Powell fired by bandmate Dave Hill in 'cold email' Express & Star

Legendary Slade drummer Don Powell and his friend of decades, co-legend Bev Bevan of Electric Light Orchestra and The Move have made a few phone calls and ga.


Slade split up after 50 years as drummer Don Powell is sacked by email Ents & Arts News Sky News

It was the morning of July 5, 1973, and the story made front-page headlines on just about every UK national daily newspaper: Slade drummer Don Powell had been seriously injured after crashing his Bentley the night before. A passenger in the vehicle - Powell's girlfriend and soon-to-be-wife, Angela - had been killed.

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