When Queen epic made it to number one for the first time
Though Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' has topped the charts at Christmas on three occasions, the only song by the same artist to make Christmas No. 1 twice is Queen's epic 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. It first topped the Christmas charts in 1975 and pulled it off again 16 years later, following the death of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. As a result, it is one of the longest-reigning Number 1 hits of all time. The song from the band's 1975 album 'A Night At The Opera' was first released on October 31 that year. By the end of the following January it had spent nine weeks on top of the char...
Source: independent.ie