10 Rock Artists That Had Hit Singles Over A Decade Apart
8. Rage Against The Machine - 13 Years
If the British public can be relied upon for anything, it's committing to a joke.
In 2009, singer Joe McElderry won the UK version of The X-Factor. As had been the case for the last five years, McElderry was expected to secure a UK Christmas number one single with his version of Miley Cyrus' The Climb.
That is, until a new challenger emerged.
English DJ Jon Morter and his wife Tracy launched a campaign to get Rage Against The Machine's Killing in the Name to number one instead, and they only bloomin' succeeded. Rage scored their first and only UK chart-topper, to the delight of talent show-haters everywhere.
Killing in the Name had only reached number 25 upon its initial 1992 release, marking a huge contrast in fortune. The last Rage song to reach the UK top ten was 1996's Bulls on Parade, leaving a 13 year gap between hits.
The fact that Britain went to such lengths to get a song that repeats the F-bomb over a dozen times to the Christmas number one spot really shows how sick everyone was of Simon Cowell in 2009.