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
Christmas in the Stars second 45 from the album was released by Polygram on the RSO label, "R2D2's Sleigh Ride" backed with "Christmas in the Stars", also with a picture sleeve. This album was one of the music industry's first non-classical-or-jazz projects to be recorded and mixed digitally, and when "What Can You Get a Wookiee for Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb)" reached No. 69 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1980 it was only the third digitally recorded single in the chart's history. In November 1990, Polydor Records Japan released a 3-inch CD single featuring the songs "R2-D2 We Wish