Various Artists Christmas Album
On October 30th, exclusively on vinyl, we present THE essential collection of Christmas Songs - together, for the first time on one double LP - a value-packed 35 fantastic festive favourites sounding better than ever. The perfect gift that every vinyl collector will love or the perfect soundtrack to your own Christmas celebrations. Side One celebrates the season with pop classic after pop classic. Queen kick things off with ‘Thank God It’s Christmas’ followed by timeless ’70s smashes: Elton John’s ‘Step Into Christmas’, Slade with ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’, Greg Lake’s epic ‘I Believe In Father Christmas’ and Paul McCartney’s ‘Wonderful Christmastime’. It then draws to a close with the 2-million selling ‘Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord’ from Boney M. and Johnny Mathis’ #1 ‘When A Child Is Born’. The biggest selling Christmas single of all time gets the second side underway, Band Aid with ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’, and leads into the single it replaced at #1, the stunningly beautiful ‘The Power Of Love’ from Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Jona Lewie’s ’Stop The Cavalry’ and Mel (Smith) and Kim (Wilde) with their take on ‘Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree’ give way to some of the best soulful seasonal tracks from The Jackson Five, The Ronettes and Darlene Love and finally on this side, The Waitresses’ ‘Christmas Wrapping’ a true contemporary classic
