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“It was a dull, boring Sunday in 1984 and we were just passing the time,” Andrew Ridgeley recalls of the day Wham! bandmate George Michael wrote Last Christmas. While Andrew watched football on the TV
“Merry Xmas, Everybody” No.1, 1973 Slade’s chart-topper was recorded in New York while the band toured the world. Flamboyant guitarist, Dave Hill – remembered for his trademark high-heel boots and dis
Three women share their stories of festive singing
CHRISTMAS comes around once a year, but not for Andy Park. For, every day for the last 32 years, the retired electrician has tucked into a Christmas dinner with all the trimmings – roughly 11,680 plat
It’s a relief after the horrors of Fortean TV Uncut (FT464:46-51) to find that Lionel Fanthorpe was given one last hurrah by Channel 4 – an “X-mas Files” seasonal special punning off the then wildly p
As I look ahead to Christmas this year, I feel that familiar cocktail of excitement and mild dread. The children are growing up fast now – and who knows how many more years of ‘magic’ we have left? La