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"Merry Xmas Everybody" is played regularly at UK nightclubs and on TV or radio stations and in many supermarkets around Christmas. It is included on numerous Christmas-themed compilation albums and several of Slade's subsequent compilation albums. [11] [19] Despite the song's popularity it became the band's last number-one hit. [19]
Merry Xmas Everybody" was annually re-released for most of the eighties in the UK. Since the 21st century, chart rules changed in many territories to allow downloads of old singles to re-enter the singles charts.
Merry Xmas Everybody: Party Hits is a compilation album by the British rock band Slade. [1] Aimed at the Christmas market, the album was released on 23 November 2009 and reached No. 151 in the UK. Track listing
Merry Xmas Everybody '98 Remix (Flush Edit) 1998 Slade vs Flush - released as a CD single in 1998 Stefan Rundquist, Sven Olson Merry Xmas Everybody (Extended Remix Version) 1985 Available on 12" Vinyl of "Merry Xmas Everybody" 1985 re-issue single Lea, Peter Hammond My Oh My (12" Version) 1983 Available on 12" Vinyl of "My Oh My" single Punter
The Christmas-themed song "Merry Xmas Everybody" was Slade's last single of 1973 and became the band's last number one in the UK. [5] Prompted by a challenge from Lea's mother-in-law to write a seasonal song, the chorus was the melody from a discarded song written by Holder six years previously. It became Slade's best-selling single.
The band clocked up 21 hit singles and released 15 albums with their original line-up. Slade are particularly remembered for "Merry Xmas Everybody", [9] written by Holder and Lea. Holder recorded the single with Slade in 1973, and the song became the band's sixth number one and the third Slade single to go straight in at number one in the UK ...
The album was a success in the UK, where it reached No. 34 and was certified Gold. The later 1999 release Slade's Crazee Christmas would chart several times on the UK Budget Albums Chart between 2001-05. [2] Speaking to Kerrang! in 1985, Noddy Holder said of Crackers, "This LP features 16 tracks, eight of our own in re-worked form plus eight ...
Pages in category "Slade compilation albums" ... Merry Xmas Everybody: Party Hits; R. Rockers (Slade album) S. Slade Alive! – The Live Anthology; The Slade Box;