Personally Speaking: 'Industrial beauty has an emotional impact'.In fact I like Bradfield’s version so much that I get out my guitar every year and try to copy it – it’s not just the turkey which gets murdered in my house. I like the Wham! song, but I far prefer the cover version once performed by James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers on TFI Friday, which can easily be found on YouTube. This Christmas there’s a social media campaign to finally get Last Christmas to the top of the charts. Wham! hold the record for the biggest selling song not to reach number one, with Last Christmas. Last Christmas is the highest selling number two single in chart history, but in 1984 nothing was going to keep the Band Aid charity song Do They Know It’s Christmas from number one. So what is the best Christmas song? According to Spotify, the most streamed festive tune is Mariah Carey’s classic, All I Want For Christmas, which was number two in the UK charts in 1994, closely followed by Wham! and Last Christmas, which also peaked at number two. The disgraced singer – who once fled from spitting punk fans who showered him in ‘gob’ at the Victoria Hall in the 1970s – has been quietly scrubbed off Christmas track listings. Incidentally, good luck finding Now – The Christmas album playing in any stores this year: Track seven features Gary Glitter singing Another Rock N Roll Christmas. I can even listen to Mistletoe and Wine without turning into a gibbering wreck. I defy anyone to take pleasure from Paul McCartney singing Wonderful Christmastime when you’re forced to listen to Now – The Christmas Album, constantly, eight hours a day, five days a week, on repeat, from early November.
But that’s mainly because I used to work in a shop. Christmas starts only when Noddy Holder says it does.īecause how can the festivities start until Christmas songs, such as Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody, begin to invade the airwaves?įor a long time I hated Christmas songs.
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