For all those people who think buying Rage Against The Machine to try make it number one single in the UK for Christmas this year is going to improve things. Take a look at some of the past number ones for this period. Do we really want to go there again?

1980 St Winifred’s School Choir “There’s No-one Quite Like Grandma”

1982 Renée and Renato “Save Your Love”

1983 The Flying Pickets “Only You”

1985 Shakin’ Stevens “Merry Christmas Everyone”

1986 Jackie Wilson “Reet Petite”

1988 Cliff Richard “Mistletoe and Wine”

1990 Cliff Richard “Saviour’s Day”

1993 Mr Blobby “Mr Blobby”

1994 East 17 “Stay Another Day”

1995 Michael Jackson “Earth Song”

1996 Spice Girls “2 Become 1”

1997 Spice Girls “Too Much”

1998 Spice Girls “Goodbye”

2000 Bob The Builder “Can We Fix It?”