Watch Toyah and Robert Fripp's stomping cover of Slade's 'Merry Xmas Everybody'

8 December 2025, 12:07

IT'S FRIPPPPMASSSSSS!

Lockdowns are thankfully long in the past, but one of the few plus sides of that crazy time is still with us today: Toyah and Robert Fripp's Sunday Lunch.

For those who haven't yet have the experience, new wave superstar Toyah Willcox and her other half, King Crimson guitar legend Robert Fripp, bash out a classic tune for our listening and viewing pleasure.

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The duo always get dolled up in amazing outfits and wigs, and since the start of December have been looking especially seasonal.

On the most recent episode, hosted as ever on Toyah's YouTube channel, Willcox is dressed in elfish green and Fripp is bopping around in a Christmas top and Santa hat.

And they have belted out one of the all-time great Christmas single - Slade's 'Merry Xmas Everybody'.

Toyah and Robert Sunday Lunch - Merry Christmas!

Even though they hacked the classic track down to less than 90 seconds, they more than did the song justice.

'Merry Xmas Everybody' was written by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea and recorded by Slade in New York the sweltering summer of 1973, before being released that winter.

It beat Wizzard's 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday' to the top spot and has endured as one of the greatest Christmas songs of all time.