It had been almost 51 years since Status Quo made their Top 40 debut with "Pictures Of Matchstick Men". This was single number 56 for them, at the time just Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, Elton John, Madonna and David Bowie could have claimed to have more.
This was the only Christmas Top 40 hit they had and it followed that same Status Quo formula that we'd all become familiar with.
Status Quo had been considered old fashioned for quite some time by this point. They were famously banned on Radio 1 in the mid-90s for that very reason. Yet here they were outliving many of those new mid-90s acts whose Top 40 career had long been finished by this point.
They weren't finished with this either. One more Top 40 hit came in 2010 which made them the first band to have Top 40 hits in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s.
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