On this day, 24 December 1983 it was announced that pop group The Flying Pickets, made up of actors who had supported miners' strikes in 1972 and 74, had the UK Christmas number 1 single with their a cappella cover of Yazoo's (Yaz in the US) Only You. Flying pickets were groups of strikers who travelled around the country to picket out other workers in solidarity, and helped bring down the Conservative government in 1974. The band, who were militant socialists, later got into conflict with their