Plans to create a statue celebrating one of the UK’s most loved bands have been unveiled. <\/p>\n
A 3m (9.8ft) statue of rock band Slade aims to reflect how big they were in their heyday and their influence on the music industry.<\/p>\n
“They were always very proud of being from Wolverhampton, so it’s about time Wolverhampton shows it’s proud of Slade as well,” Phil Dan, from the city’s Music Heritage organisation, said.<\/p>\n
Artist Luke Perry, who designed the statue, said he incorporated their celebrated top hats and flares into the statue so people could instantly think “music and glam-rock”. Since forming in 1963, Slade achieved worldwide success with 17 consecutive Top 20 hits. <\/p>\n
Merry Christmas Everybody and Cum On Feel the Noize were two of their biggest hits.<\/p>\n
Fans travelled from all over the world to attend the monument’s announcement at Wolverhampton Arts Centre on Saturday, with one saying it showed they were “finally being acknowledged”. <\/p>\n
Andy Boden, also from the Wolverhampton Music Heritage, said that the statue would celebrate the legacy of the band and bring it to the public’s attention.<\/p>\n
“They were Black Country heroes, they’ve maintained their connections to the city, so it’s important that this becomes a place people can pay tribute to,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans to create a statue celebrating one of the UK’s most loved bands have been unveiled. A 3m…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-776424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776424","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=776424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}