The making of Wizzard's I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day – a classic interview from the vaults

In our latest visit to the archives of Rock's Backpages – the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism – we unwrap Johnny Black's account, first published in Q magazine in 1996, of the making of I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday by Wizzard. The song was famously pipped to the Christmas No 1 post by Slade's Merry Xmas Everybody in 1973Mike Burney (sax): I'd been doing really boring big band gigs on the ballroom circuit, so when Roy offered me a job in Wizzard I was just knoc...

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