Every nation that celebrates Christmas does shopping and gluttony. But only the British actively encourage pantomime, that ancient custom which ensures that retired sportspersons and soap stars won't starve, and also retain the inexplicable belief that the top single in Christmas week still possesses some cultural cachet.Yet as Top of the Pops fades into history, it falls to a group of Americans to remind us of our best and daftest traditions. Detroit's Electric Six, already responsible for two all-time party classics in "Danger! High Voltage!" and the playground favourite "Gay Bar", return with their distinctive version of Queen's "Radio Ga Ga"."I gave up fighting it a long time ago," concedes the band's leader and driving force Tyler Spencer, better known under his nom de rock of Dick Valentine. …
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