Thank God It's Christmas

"Thank God It's Christmas" is a Christmas single by the British rock band Queen. It was written by lead guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor.

Released on 26 November 1984, the single spent six weeks in the UK charts over Christmas 1984 and new year of 1985, and peaked at number 21.^[1]

The song was not originally released on any Queen studio album, appearing only on Queen's Greatest Hits III, released in 1999, and as the B-side of the single "A Winter's Tale" from the 1995 album Made in Heaven. However, the track was finally included on the bonus EP packaged with the deluxe edition of their album The Works, remastered and re-released in 2011.

No promotional video was filmed for the track, hampering its future use on music TV channels. For that reason it is a lesser known Christmas single. The song appears on several Christmas compilation albums. One of them is the original Now That's What I Call Christmas compilation released in 1985 but deleted in 1989.

It appears on the Christmas compilation LP The Edge Of Christmas in its full 12" version with the drum intro. It also appears on the US-only compilation boxed-set The Queen Collection, which consisted of a re-release of the LPs Classic Queen and Queen's Greatest Hits along with a bonus CD called Queen Talks that included this song, along with a 1989 interview with the band.

Track listings

7" Vinyl

EMI / QUEEN 5

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Thank God It's Christmas"	Brian May, Roger Taylor	4:22

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Man on the Prowl"	Freddie Mercury	3:30
2.	"Keep Passing the Open Windows"	Mercury	5:22

12" Vinyl

EMI / 12QUEEN 5

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Thank God It's Christmas"	May, Taylor	4:19
2.	"Man on the Prowl" (Extended version)	Mercury	5:56

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Keep Passing the Open Windows" (Extended version)	Mercury	6:50

Chart performance

Chart (1984)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart^[2]^[3]	21
Irish Singles Chart^[4]	8
Chart (1985)	Peak position
Austrian Singles Chart^[5]	21
German Singles Chart^[6]	57

Chart (2015)	Peak position
Danish Singles Chart^[7]	36
Poland (Polish Airplay Top 100)^[8]	39

Personnel

Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals
Brian May - electric guitar, synthesiser, backing vocals
Roger Taylor - drums, drum machine, sleigh bells, synthesiser, backing vocals
John Deacon - bass guitar

References

↑ "Chart Stats - Queen - Thank God It's Christmas". Retrieved 24 February 2009.
↑ "everyhit.com search results". Retrieved 24 February 2009.
↑ "Chart Stats -". Retrieved 24 February 2009.
↑ "irishcharts.ie search results". Retrieved 24 February 2009.
↑ "Queen - Thank God It's Christmas - austriancharts.at". Retrieved 24 February 2009.
↑ "charts-surfer.de search results". Retrieved 24 February 2009.
↑ http://www.hitlisten.nu/default.asp?list=t40
↑ "Listy bestsellerów, wyróżnienia :: Związek Producentów Audio-Video". Polish Airplay Top 100. Retrieved 28 December 2015.

External links

Lyrics at Queen official website (from Greatest Hits III)

Queen singles discography

Queen	"Keep Yourself Alive" "Liar"

Queen II	"Seven Seas of Rhye"

Sheer Heart Attack	"Killer Queen"/"Flick of the Wrist" "Now I'm Here" "Lily of the Valley" "Stone Cold Crazy"

A Night at the Opera	"Bohemian Rhapsody" "You're My Best Friend" "Love of My Life"

A Day at the Races	"Somebody to Love" "Tie Your Mother Down" "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)" "Long Away" "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy"

News of the World	"We Are the Champions"/"We Will Rock You" "Spread Your Wings" "It's Late"

Jazz	"Bicycle Race"/"Fat Bottomed Girls" "Don't Stop Me Now" "Jealousy" "Mustapha"

Live Killers	"Love of My Life" (Live) "We Will Rock You" (Live)

The Game	"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" "Save Me" "Play the Game" "Another One Bites the Dust" "Need Your Loving Tonight"

Flash Gordon	"Flash"

Hot Space	"Under Pressure" (with David Bowie) "Body Language" "Las Palabras de Amor" "Calling All Girls" "Staying Power" "Back Chat"

The Works	"Radio Ga Ga" "I Want to Break Free" "It's a Hard Life" "Hammer to Fall"

A Kind of Magic	"One Vision" "A Kind of Magic" "Princes of the Universe" "Friends Will Be Friends" "Pain Is So Close to Pleasure" "Who Wants to Live Forever" "One Year of Love"

The Miracle	"I Want It All" "Breakthru" "The Invisible Man" "Scandal" "The Miracle"

Innuendo	"Innuendo" "I'm Going Slightly Mad" "Headlong" "I Can't Live with You" "The Show Must Go On" "These Are the Days of Our Lives"

Made in Heaven	"Heaven for Everyone" "A Winter's Tale" "I Was Born to Love You" "Too Much Love Will Kill You" "Let Me Live" "You Don't Fool Me"

Queen Rocks	"No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)"/"Tie Your Mother Down"

Greatest Hits III	"Under Pressure (Rah Mix)"

Non-album singles	"Thank God It's Christmas" "Another One Bites the Dust (Small Soldiers Remix)" "We Will Rock You" (with Five) "We Are the Champions" (with Robbie Williams) "Flash (Vanguard Mix)" "Another One Bites the Dust (The Miami Project Remixes)" "Bohemian Rhapsody" (with The Muppets)

Other songs	"See What a Fool I've Been" "Death on Two Legs" "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" "I'm in Love with My Car" "'39" "Sweet Lady" "Seaside Rendezvous" "The Prophet's Song" "Good Company" "Sheer Heart Attack" "Is This the World We Created...?" "Ride the Wild Wind" "Delilah" "Made In Heaven" "Mother Love" "Let Me in Your Heart Again" "Love Kills" "There Must Be More To Life Than This"

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