Poppy has today (October 15) shared a fierce cover of Wham!’s festive classic, ‘Last Christmas’ that’s been produced by Jordan Fish. Check it out below.
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The cover was performed as part of a Spotify session and was shared by Fish, with the former Bring Me The Horizon member describing it as a “banger” and adding: ‘Christmas came early”.
The track is a heavy guitar-filled rendition of the 1984 Christmas classic that includes some emotive, stripped-back harmonies towards the end. You can listen to it here:
Poppy worked with Fish on her sixth album, ‘Negative Spaces’, and described him as “such a creative force” during an interview with NME in 2024. Poppy added: “Jordan is very good at tracking performance…We both have an appreciation for heavy music and more saccharine pop music. I think the commonalities in our tastes unite for this record.”
Fish also spoke to NME previously about his work with Poppy on ‘Negative Spaces’, the first full-length album released that he produced in its entirety.
“Poppy wanted to do big rock songs, which I can do, I guess,” he told us. “She started off doing this erratic, genre-shifty music…it’s not really my expertise to constantly change tempo,” he explained. “In my mind, she hadn’t really put together a body of work that felt super coherent, so that was the challenge – putting her lyrics and flavour over more conventional song structures. It was a painless process [because] she’s not particularly stressed about what she’s making.”
Meanwhile, Wham! landed the 2024 Christmas Number One spot on the UK Official Charts – something that coincided with the single’s 40th anniversary.
The iconic holiday track was penned and produced by the late George Michael, with the aim of bagging Christmas Number One back in 1984. However, the pop track was kept off the top spot by Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’, a song that would go on to become the second best-selling single of all time.
It wasn’t until 2023 that ‘Last Christmas’ finally earned the festive top spot. Wham! also made history that year by setting the record for the longest-ever journey to the UK Christmas Number One, which was 39 years.
In 2024, ‘Last Christmas’ once again earned the Christmas Number One spot in the UK during the single’s 40th anniversary year. The victory also saw Wham! make Official Charts history yet again, marking the first time a song has earned two consecutive Christmas Number One victories.
Speaking to the Official Charts about Wham!’s victory and making history again, Andrew Ridgeley said: “37 years to get to Number One, 39 years to Christmas Number One, and then like London buses they all come along at once! I’m especially pleased for George, he would have been utterly delighted, his fabulous Christmas composition has become such a classic, almost as much a part of Christmas as mince pies, turkey and pigs in blankets.”
Wham! joined the likes of Queen, Spice Girls and The Beatles as one of only a few acts to achieve the Official Christmas Number One multiple times.
