School kids missing their grandparents have rocked up the classic Christmas hit 'There’s No One Quite Like Grandma' to send them a message of love.
Lead singer, Abby Warner, 14, wrote their version of the 1980 Christmas number one, in just three days.
She was fed up because she had not seen her grandparents, who live 100 miles away from her home in Leeds, since February.
She joined forces with her real life 'school of rock' mates to record the 'Virtual Hugs (There's no one quite like grandma' song in isolation.
The song was written, recorded, performed and played entirely by children at the LS18rocks music school in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
The children, aged between six and 14, have released the single with no adult help and profits will be donated to charity to help combat loneliness in elderly people this winter.
Abby said: “I miss my grandparents so much. They've heard the song now and it made them cry. We just want them to know how much we love them.”
Bass player Oli Jeeves, 12, said: “All I want for Christmas is to be able to hug my grandparents but it doesn't look like it's going to be possible.
“Making this record for them and sending a virtual hug is the next best thing.
“My grandparents love the song and were all in tears when they saw the video for the first time.”
Their song was inspired by the St Winifred’s School Choir classic and recorded in one day during last month’s half-term holidays.
Abby said: “I took the sentiment of the original and applied it to this very strange year we have lived through.
"The idea is that, although we haven’t been able to be physically close to our grandparents, we have found other ways to keep them close to our hearts.
“I’ve not been able to see one set of grandparents since February and the other set, who live fairly close-by, since August.
"I can’t wait for them to hear the song – hopefully it will make their Christmas.”
LS18 Rocks was forced to close their doors in March and has spent the majority of the year delivering lessons online.
The school's musical director Jonnie Khan said: “We played them the St Winifred’s Choir song – which everybody of a certain generation can obviously remember.
"The young people had never heard it before, but there was a suggestion we could maybe do a ‘rocked-up version’.
“We set a challenge to see what lyrics they could come up with and were blown away when Abby came up with an original song that captures absolutely everything the children had been talking about.
"Jimmy then added some magic and the finished track is simply breath-taking.”
The original song was recorded by the choir from St Winifred's Roman Catholic Primary School in Stockport to mark the 80th birthday of the Queen Mother.
It knocked John Lennon’s Happy Xmas (War Is Over) off the top spot.
At their peak the choir even performed with Abba, met Margaret Thatcher and sold more than one million copies.
