About a member of Slade becoming a JW in later life & refusing the royalties from their famous Christmas song?
Does anyone in the UK recall the JW story/urban myth
by jambon1 27 Replies latest jw friends
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nicolaou
This was Dave Hill. I knew the brother he studied with (quite a bit older than me, from one of the Wolverhampton congregations). Hill is still an active JW I believe. Don't know about refusing to accept the royalties but he did stop performing the song with the band which caused some upset.
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Frazzled UBM
That is so disappointing - I loved Slade as a kid, including their Xmas song. Maybe his mind was softened by enjoying too much of the good life in the 70s.
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tim hooper
I didn't know that. Is he on this video?
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cofty
According to this article he didn't get baptized but his wife did. He still performs the Christmas hit.
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dozy
Interesting story. I wonder why he isn't baptised - maybe the elders aren't happy with him continuing to sing the song & be in a rock band. I guess being a UBP means he can stay associating but is exempt from congregation discipline- a bit like the tennis Williams sisters.
I'm sure accepting the royalties would be ok - all he needs to say is that they are batched together with the rest of Slade's back catalogue. Anyway - after RandCam the WTBTS don't seem to have a problem in accepting royalty payments from any source.
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bigmac
yes---i heard the story about the Slade guy---but --in a radio interview in recent years he said the royalties from the record were part of his pension.
going back to the late 60's--there was a well-known "bad lad" football player in the west midlands--?? Knowles-??---who joined the cult. i saw him at an assembly.
also--"liquorice " Locking--bass player for the Shadows---met him at an early 60's Twickers
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cofty
Peter Knowles of Wolves. Don't forget Chelsea legend Bobby Tambling.
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Phizzy
Had a beer or two with Bobby Tambling years ago, he got DF'd some years ago, don't know if he ever bothered to go back. Nice modest guy, a bit of a realist about some of his fellow footballers, told it like it was.