Gypsy Roadhog often comes up on lists of Slade songs that should have been much bigger than they were. Noddy Holder was interviewed by Sky By Day in 1989 and spoke about the controversy that caused it to not reach its full potential - "The song was all about a cocaine dealer in America, but it was actually an anti-drug song. The next day in all the newspapers, Keith Richards had just been arrested for cocaine and there's all things in the paper about using silver spoons and everything. Blue Pete