Thank God It's Christmas Thank God It's Christmas "Thank God It's Christmas" is a Christmas single by the British rock band Queen. It was written by lead guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Released on 26 November 1984, the single spent six weeks in the UK charts over Christmas 1984 and new year of 1985, and peaked at number 21. The song was not originally released on any Queen studio album, appearing only on Queen's "Greatest Hits III", released in 1999, and as the B-side of the single "A Winter's Tale" from the 1995 album "Made in Heaven". However, the track was finally
Ellery Queen Nate Ford appears at a costumed murder mystery party as Ellery Queen, in a homage to the actor's late father, Jim. The name of Ellery Queen was attached to a number of games, including 1956's "(Ellery Queen's Great Mystery Game) Trapped", 1971's "The Case of the Elusive Assassin by Ellery Queen", a jigsaw puzzle in 1973 called "Ellery Queen: The Case of His Headless Highness" and a board game in 1986 called "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Game". There is also a VCR-based game from the early 1980s called "Ellery Queen's Operation: Murder" (loosely based on "The Dutch Shoe Mystery"). American