Noddy Holding is vying for a second Christmas number one, decades after picking up the accolade with Slade. The 76-year-old first topped the charts in 1973 with Merry Xmas Everybody.
But Noddy has now spent this week recording his part of a new charity single. The singer narrates a diary entry by a First World War soldier after the Christmas Day truce of 1914, reports The Mirror.
It includes the lines: "The brutal war had stopped. There was no noise, no screams, just silence."
