ROY WOOD’S WIZZARD
I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY
PEAKED at No 4 in 1973. Currently No 23.
SONG’S EARNINGS: Not clear, but in 2014 songwriter Wood said ‘there are too many ways to get [the song] free’.
SINCE THEN: The Brummie bandleader — then aged 27, now 71 — is winding up his annual UK winter tour. Lives in Derbyshire.