Few rock songs have enjoyed an afterlife quite like Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name did. Its adoption by a Facebook campaign in December 2009, intended to put the blocks on X Factor winner Joe McElderry claiming that year’s Christmas No.1 spot, was a phenomenal success. Killing... raced to the top by racking up more than half a million downloads, leaving McElderry behind and becoming the fastest-selling digital single ever.
The feat was all the more remarkable given that the track was 17 years old and peppered with potty-mouthed expletives – and the fact that Rage Against The Machine, who recorded it, had little to do with this second coming
