Hill is also working on a solo album, produced by Django Holder, the son of his Slade bandmate, Noddy Holder.<\/p>\n
He said Django Holder was a “fantastic” and special producer. <\/p>\n
“I couldn’t have thought of a better person to work with. It’s nice for me because Nod’s been such a good friend and encouraging me to do this,” said Hill. <\/p>\n
He added the album would probably be released in 2026, before he turns 80 on 4 April.<\/p>\n
It is biographical, with songs about members of Slade and the people “who helped [him] make it, people in the Midlands”.<\/p>\n
Mr Hill also spoke to BBC Radio WM about mental health, having been made an ambassador for mental health in the West Midlands and himself spoken about his struggles. <\/p>\n
“I’m working with Lenny Henry’s sister and she said we need a voice,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I said I’d be good at this because I understand the horrors of it. <\/p>\n
“Sadly I lost my mom over it but she saw me make it before she died.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hill is also working on a solo album, produced by Django Holder, the son of his Slade bandmate,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-270362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}