{"id":332012,"date":"2025-12-23T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332012\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:18:07","slug":"brighton-writers-joy-at-two-christmas-hits-30-years-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332012\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton writer&#8217;s joy at two Christmas hits 30 years apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The man who co-wrote this year&#8217;s Christmas number one song for Kylie Minogue was responsible for another festive chart-topper almost 30 years ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brighton-based songwriter Richard Stannard said both this year&#8217;s top of the charts  XMAS and 2 Become 1 from the Spice Girls have &#8220;a special place in my heart&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The writer, producer and publisher, known as Biff, wrote on Instagram: &#8220;Never thought I&#8217;d be posting this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He thanked the &#8220;amazing fans&#8221; and said: &#8220;Only possible with the help and love of incredible friends and creatives.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man who co-wrote this year&#8217;s Christmas number one song for Kylie Minogue was responsible for another festive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-332012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}