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In December 2024, a parody version was released entitled "Freezing This Christmas".A backlash against the means-testing of the Winter Fuel Payment by the Labour government in July 2024, it had lyrics by Chris Middleton, a freelance writer from Newcastle, and was performed by Dean Ager, a singer and Frank Sinatra and Michael Bublé impersonator, under the name Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers ...
"This Christmas" is a song by American soul musician Donny Hathaway released in 1970 by Atco Records. [3] The song gained renewed popularity when it was included in 1991 on Atco Records' revised edition of their 1968 Soul Christmas compilation album [4] and has since become a modern Christmas standard, with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers reporting that it was the ...
Mud are an English glam rock band, formed in February 1966. Their earlier success came in a pop and then glam rock style, while later hits were influenced by 1950s rock and roll and rockabilly, [1] and they are best remembered for their hit singles "Dyna-mite", "Tiger Feet", which was the UK's best-selling single of 1974, and "Lonely This Christmas" which reached Christmas number 1 in December ...
The parody song is based on Mud’s 1974 Christmas No 1 “Lonely This Christmas” and took aim at prime minister Keir Starmer’s decision to strip 10 million pensioners of the winter fuel payment.
Run-DMC, "Christmas in Hollis" The 1987 Special Olympics charity album, A Very Special Christmas, had some incredible contributions from A-list artists like Madonna, Whitney Houston, Bruce ...
"8 Days of Christmas" was released as the lead single from Destiny's Child's 2001 holiday album of the same name. The R&B hit was cowritten by Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, and Errol McCalla Jr. and ...
The Christmas number one is considered especially prestigious. [2] [3] Christmas number-one singles have often also been the best-selling song of the year, though in recent years they have been released by reality television contestants and charity efforts. The Christmas number is announced by BBC Radio 1 on the Friday before Christmas. [4]
The quintessential Christmas crush song, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" finally hit No. 1 in 2019—25 years after its initial release! 2. Nat King Cole, "The Christmas Song"