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Article: Perspective: Do they know how it captured the moment? It's a classic, but not as we know it. Richard McComb pays tribute to original Band Aid song.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2004
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Byline: Richard McComb
There are only two Christmas Number Ones that do not instill an overbearing sense of gloom and depression.
The first is Slade's Merry Xmas Everybody, which remains the definitive unseasonal celebration of joy from 1973. I say unseasonal because most Christmas songs try to be upbeat, or moodily introspective, and fail miserably on both counts.
And so it came to pass that for every Merry Xmas Everybody, there was a farmyard full of pop turkeys, from Westlife's I Have A Dream and The Flying Picket's Only You to Cliff Richard's ...