1986 in British music cover of the disco song "Don't Leave Me This Way". The band included singer Jimmy Somerville who had previously enjoyed success with Bronski Beat, and later started a solo career. The Christmas number one single was something of a surprise, a re-issue of Jackie Wilson's 1957 single "Reet Petite". Wilson had died in 1984, but the song been re-issued after being used in a television advert for Levi's, with a new video made of a Claymation version of Wilson. Having first been released 29 years earlier, it broke the record for the longest time between a single being released and
Twenty Years (song) Twenty Years (song) "Twenty Years" is a song by English alternative rock band Placebo, included on their 2004 best-of compilation release "". It was the only entirely new song to be released as a single (although "Protège-Moi", a French-language re-recording of an earlier song, was released in France). In the UK, it peaked at number 18 in the UK Singles Chart. In Australia, the song was ranked at 95 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004. The song was one of two songs (along with "The Bitter End") performed by Placebo at the Paris leg of the international Live 8