Singer Noddy Holder says medical doctors are nonetheless “maintaining a test on me” after being given months to dwell 5 years in the past.

The previous Slade frontman, well-known for the road “it is Christmas” within the band’s 1973 festive hit Merry Xmas All people, advised Sky Information he had “lasted the course”.

In an interview with Kay Burley, the 78-year-old stated: “I did have oesophageal most cancers and that was 5 years in the past and, in the mean time, they’re nonetheless maintaining a test on me.

“I am on a degree enjoying subject in the mean time after on the time being recognized with six months to dwell.

“So I’ve lasted the course, because it had been.”

His spouse Suzan defined how Christmas Day begins with an “uncommon alarm clock” within the Holder family.

She stated: “When he shouts ‘It is Christmas!’ in your ear to wake you up on Christmas morning, it’s extremely loud.

“It’s a very uncommon alarm clock, nevertheless it works.”

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The couple had been speaking to Sky Information about hospice care and The Christie NHS Basis Belief in Manchester, the place Mr Holder was handled.

The musician, who has additionally loved a profession in performing, grew to become well-known for quite a few hits with Slade within the Nineteen Seventies and 80s earlier than leaving the band in 1992.