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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 ...
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 ...
Tiger Feet is a popular song by the English glam rock band Mud, released in January 1974. [3] Written and produced by the songwriting team of Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn, it was the first of three number No. 1 singles for the band, in the UK Singles Chart. [4] followed later that year by "Lonely This Christmas", and then in 1975 by "Oh Boy!"
Mud had the best-selling single of 1974 with "Tiger Feet", which spent four weeks at number-one.The glam-rock group had three other top 10 hits this year, including the year's Christmas number-one single, "Lonely This Christmas", which also topped the chart for four weeks.
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 one is announced by BBC Radio 1 on the Friday before Christmas. [4]
Michael Donald Chapman OAM (born 13 April 1947) is an Australian record producer and songwriter who was a major force in the British pop music industry in the 1970s. He created a string of hit singles for artists including the Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Smokie, Mud and Racey with business partner Nicky Chinn, creating a sound that became identified with the "Chinnichap" brand.
"Lonely This Christmas" b/w "I Can't Stand It" 1 — — 1 1 13 — 1 1 — BPI: Platinum [7] Non-album single 1975 "The Secrets That You Keep" b/w "Still Watching the Clock" 3 28 — 3 12 20 28 3 4 — BPI: Silver [7] Mud Rock Volume 2 "Oh Boy" b/w "Watching the Clock" 1 58 5 3 17 22 2 1 6 29 BPI: Silver [7] "Moonshine Sally" b/w "Bye Bye ...
Mud had a string of hits written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, including two which topped the UK Singles Chart in 1974, "Lonely This Christmas", and "Tiger Feet", and, re-punctuated as Oh Boy, a chart-topping cover of "Oh, Boy!" (originally performed by Buddy Holly). They disbanded in 1979.