{"id":662915,"date":"2026-10-23T07:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662915\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T07:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:44:08","slug":"slade-star-dave-hill-honours-wolverhampton-in-debut-solo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662915\/","title":{"rendered":"Slade star Dave Hill honours Wolverhampton in debut solo album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The album blends rock, blues and folk, capturing the energy of Hill&#8217;s live-performance roots alongside his personal journey, including struggles with mental health and the impact of the Covid-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I started to write, I knew when something was good &#8211; it would almost make me cry,&#8221; the 80-year-old added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He continued: &#8220;I was talking to Noddy Holder, [who is] probably one of my best friends in life, and he encouraged me to write my own music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Wolverhampton was where I lived. [I remember] the council estate and the cinema and growing up in the days when Doris Day was in the charts. I loved her. I used to watch Flash Gordon at the cinema.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hill also teamed up with American country music star John Berry for the album. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also told BBC Radio WM that he has plans to release two further albums in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The album blends rock, blues and folk, capturing the energy of Hill&#8217;s live-performance roots alongside his personal journey,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-662915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}