Unable to reach No.1 when it was first released more than four decades ago, Last Christmas is unable to stop reaching No.1 in the 2020s, rising inevitably and inexorably to pole position yet again this week for Wham!

First released in 1984, as a double A-sided hit alongside Everything She Wants, Last Christmas peaked at No.2 at the time for Wham!, behind Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?. It finally topped the chart at the end of 2020, returning ...