TWELVE SONGS OF CHRISTMAS (HB)

Every December, Britain waits for the one chart result that still matters: the Christmas number one. This book tells the story of this uniquely British obsession through a dozen chart-toppers, beginning in 1950 with Gene Autry's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Along the way are the Beatles' sixties dominance, Slade and Wizzard's glittering seventies takeover, Band Aid's global phenomenon, the Spice Girls hat-trick and the reality-TV era of Christmas chart battles.