Pop music

hy you try and write a Christmas hit? Imagine being Noddy Holder. Once a year, at the first mention of mulled wine, crackles from every available radio and streaming device and the heavens open and pour cold, hard cash upon the tousled head of the eternally well-heeled former Slade frontman. The same goes for Roy Wood of Wizzard, author of the seasonally unavoidable Chris Rea’s will keep him knee-deep in port and walnuts for eternity and beyond.