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
Stop the Cavalry Stop the Cavalry "Stop the Cavalry" is a song written and performed by the English musician Jona Lewie, released in 1980 and now heard as a Christmas song. The song peaked at number three in the UK Singles Chart in December 1980, at one point only being kept from number one by two re-issued songs by John Lennon, who had been murdered on 8 December. In an interview for Channel 4's "100 Greatest Christmas Moments", Lewie said that the song was never intended as a Christmas hit, and that it was a protest song. The line 'Wish I was at