Timeless Christmas hit is the gift that keeps on giving for Wizzard

Roy Wood surrounded by Wizzard bandmates in 1974. He set up the glam rock group after spells with The Move and Electric Light Orchestra. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images

If you listen closely to the start of Wizzard’s yuletide standard I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday, you’ll hear the kerching of a cash register.

The sound might have been “a winning speck of cynicism in the tinselly facade” of 70s consumerism, according to the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis, but five decades on it has proved prophetic – the song accounts for nearly all of the band’s streams on Spotify.