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
The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World is a compilation/remix album by Boney M. released simultaneously with greatest hits package "Gold - 20 Super Hits" in November 1992. The album is a slightly re-edited and remixed version of 1986's "The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs". After the chart success of the 1992 "Megamix", the 1978 Christmas number one "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" was also re-issued as a single under the name "Christmas Megamix". "The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World" has since been re-packaged with new artwork and re-issued as