Duo steal UK Christmas top spot

Dark horse contenders Michael Andrews and Gary Jules squeezed ahead at the last minute tonight to beat British retro rockers The Darkness to the coveted UK Christmas No 1 spot.

Duo steal UK Christmas top spot

Dark horse contenders Michael Andrews and Gary Jules squeezed ahead at the last minute tonight to beat British retro rockers The Darkness to the coveted UK Christmas No 1 spot.

Andrews and Jules came from nowhere with their sparse cover of the Tears For Fears song Mad World to triumph in one of the closest run and most fiercely fought festive chart battles for years.

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