Welcome to my World - Don Powell (Slade)

Don Powell, the drummer for the hard rock group Slade for over fifty years, talks about his life, from the beginning and until now. The succesfull years with Slade. Host of the program is Stig Ulrichsen. Powell started drumming on a borrowed Olympic kit as a youngster. He moved up to a deep blue Hayman set for his work with Slade until the early 1970s. From there he changed to Ludwig, but in the mid-2000s he switched to Pearl as the original Ludwig firm had changed ownership. At 1 am on 4 July 1973, when Slade were popular in Europe and number one in the UK Singles Chart with “Skweeze Me Pleeze Me“, Powell was badly injured in a serious car crash at Compton Road West, Wolverhampton, in which his 20-year-old fiancée Angela Morris was killed. Hear his fantastic story in this program.