![]() ![]() The lyrics were left to Holder, who wrote the song at his mother’s house one night after a drunken night at a pub. Lea took a melody that Holder had written a few years earlier and combined it with a song he had been working on at the time. ![]() Holder and Lea decided the song should be Christmas-themed, so in the summer of 1973, they began crafting the song. Noddy Holder and Jim Lea, the band’s two main songwriters, felt pressure to make that third single irresistibly good. A few months later, the band repeated that feat with “Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me.” The record company pushed the band for a December single in the hopes the band could have a third single enter the charts at the top spot. “Cum On Feel The Noize” was the first single to enter the British charts at Number 1 since The Beatles’ “Get Back,” and was the seventh single in history to do so. In 1973, English band Slade was one of the most popular bands in its home country. You can listen to the songs in a Spotify playlist. Read about it here and see the list of previous songs here. A new post about a different song is posted each Monday. This is the 85th post in a weekly series. ![]()
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