This song was a hit around Christmas 1990 just as I was starting my second year at east 15 acting school and was living in Loughton in a flat above Safeways!
Despite the fact that the boys appear to have ‘borrowed’ the chord structure from Pachabel’s canon and written a song about an incident where English and German soldiers left the trenches in December 1914 at the start of the Great War to create a Christmas truce and play football in no man’s land, this is a truly memorable song and one that I have on my ipod and still play today.
Although this is not a ‘Christmas’ song as such that fact that it retells a Christmas story of such power and sadness (a story which was denied by the authorities for so many years and has only relatively recently been acknowledged as true) accompanied by such a familiar melodic structure makes it a true classic.
Listen to the song….
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