“I still had a gigantic hole to fill in my life,” he says. He began backing away from the music business. By the end of the 70s he had converted to Islam – and had changed his name, to Yusuf ...
who eventually took the number one with Last Christmas. Our obsession with Christmas music really started in the 70s, with hits like Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody and Wizzard’s I Wish It Could ...