Christmas day. My favourite Christmas song though sometimes my loyalty leans towards the Pogues "Fairytale of New York". This brings back a strange New Years Eve party I ended up at in 1974. It was somebody I can't remember but I got on well with him because he came from the North of England too. The party was a few young people and a bunch of oldies which was a crap mixture. however the magic thing about the party was that it was the most English party I'd ever been to. This song was playing and it hadn't been released in Australia yet. (we missed out on most Xmas songs because of timing). Pork pies, Guinness beer, grannies with fags, dancing to Gary Glitter. It was a real Lancashire knees up. For a party that looked horrible from entrance by the end I was having a real laugh. It was like a house in Blackpool had been beamed over to Box Hill North just for one night. Even the vinyl singles had massive holes in them for the spindles.
Anyway now Merry Xmas is the opening song on all mix Xmas CDs I make.
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