‘What Are We Gonna Get For ‘er Indoors’ by Dennis Waterman and George Cole – reached #21 in December 1983.

Face it – the British number ones at Christmas are a joke: Teletubbies in 1997; boy-bands, girl-bands, Cliff Richard, and charity records. At least in the 70s it was done in a tongue in cheek fashion!

But the Christmas number one can, sometimes, beat the hype; consider ‘Stan’ by Eminem – knocked off the top spot for Xmas 2000 by Bob the Builder (‘Can We Fix It’).

For me it has to be that awful old cliché – Slade with ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’: a timeless (almost!), out of tune, screamed classic!

Flood.