It's Chriiiiiiiistmaaaaaaaaas!!!You have to wait to the very end of Slade's seasonal classic to hear Noddy Holder's inimitable (and not particularly Christmassy) screech. It happens after about 30 repeated choruses, in fact - but it's always worth it in the end. Okay, its not Mozart. It's not George Michael either. But it did go straight in at No.1 when it came out in 1973 - fifty years ago. Love it or loathe it, there's nothing quite like it.So now, Last Christmas, with that immortal video directed by Andy Morahan - and discussed at some length in the excellent Wham! doc on Netflix that came out this year - has finally made it to No.1 too. Big congrats to the Andys (Morahan and Ridgeley).But this year, we want to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with some Seventies glam rock from Noddy and the boys. Because it sounds like its made by a bunch of lads who have just been reprieved from the naughty step. They're having a whale of a time. Hope you have lots of fun too.Peace On Earth!

Seasons greetings and happy holidays, one and all. We hope you have a very enjoyable and properly festive time, even with the current uncertainties, over the coming days. As usual we're posting our Christmas greeting with a favourite Christmas video. For a long time it was that one by Bing Crosby and David Bowie, a meeting of the generations even more unlikely than Ed and Sir Elton. More recently, we've opted for other well-loved classics, and this year it's one of those big ones from the '80s. It also happens to have a pretty bonkers video...So enjoy The Pretenders' 2000 Miles, from 1983, with Chrissie Hynde as a Salvation Army officer surrounded by stuffed animals in a fake snowstorm, with bandmates who appear to have randomly picked stuff from the wardrobe department, and slowly becoming waxworks. Or something.I mean, there is no way of knowing what is going on, really...Peace On Earth!

Yes it's Christmas, so as our own festive tradition demands, here's David and Bing...We wish you all the very best at this most wonderful time of the year.Peace on Earth!