Stay Another Day band Maps covered the song and gave it away as a free mp3 download online. In 2003 at Keele University Students' Union, Chesney Hawkes and his band performed an (intentionally farcical) punk rock version of "Stay Another Day" in response to East 17 cancelling their appearance later in the night. The song was not performed in full as the band could not stop laughing when they tried to perform it. In 2012 metal band THE HELL covered the song as a Christmas single and is offered as a free download on their bandcamp account. In 2013, Bastille included it in
Last Christmas unrequited love". Wham! already had two number one songs in the UK Singles Chart in 1984 and news that they were planning a Christmas single meant that a battle for the coveted Christmas number one spot in the UK seemed set to be between Wham! and the year's other big act, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, who had achieved a third number one in early December with "The Power of Love". However, the Band Aid Single helmed by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, produced the number one single "Do They Know Its Christmas" Wham!'s offering peaked at number two for much