I am guessing it was,I have just looked up how old Noddy is and he is nearly a year younger than me,I thought he was younger than that.I have no idea when he got involved with Chas Chandler,I thought he was a Hendrix manager
I left home when I was twenty and my sister would have been about twelve when she was going to the youth club,and he would have been 19,I am not sure when they had their first hit.They were touring in the USA in 1975 when he would have been about 29,so they were well established by then.