Paul Morley's Showing Off… | Music

We all have our own favourite seasonal songs. Mine work for a bleak midwinter – and for a profound, optimistic oneI've made it a rule that I can only start playing my favourite Christmas songs after 5 December, even if the supermarket ads have already been anticipating Christmas Day for weeks. That will give me about three and a half weeks before it begins to seem wrong to be playing these songs, written for, about, because of, Christmas, whether that is Christmas as a deeply contemplative rel...

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