Noddy Holder (Slade) - Tear Into The Weekend (1988)

In 1988, Noddy Holder was approached about recording the lead vocal for a Pepsi Cola advert. The track was aimed at America and Canada but only ended up being used in Canada - playing on over 25 radio stations daily. Holder told the Slade fan club in 1988, "It had already been written and they asked me to put the vocal to it. It is a rock &roll type tune in the &Weer All Crazee Now&mould. I got a phone call out of the blue, they sent me the lyric and offered me some nice money, so I couldn&refuse! Some guy in their production team was a fan in the seventies, and remembering the voice, thought I would fit the bill. It didn&take very long [to record] at all. In fact I went into the Redwood Studios in London and put my vocal to a backing track that had already been pre-recorded. As I was leaving, some session backing singers came in to finish it off."