Day 23: 'Run with the Fox' - Chris Squire and Alan White
I'll admit I'd not heard this until I started these threads a few years back and started to get a large number of emails suggesting it for the Calendar. At first I was a bit sceptical; I was never a big fan of Yes and a Prog rock Christmas song looked as if it would stray dangerously into Greg Lake territory but, hey! I've come to quite like it and I can get with the 'Are you hopeful Are you haunted / By the ghost of Christmas Past / Face the future undaunted / Step aside or take your chance' lyric this year. It's also got a killer bassline and the refrain from 'On Christmas Night all Christians sing' to recommend it.
I'm only sorry I didn't run with it last year as I'd intended, as I could have pointed you to a YouTube video link but, sadly, it's been removed to be replaced by a strange dude in a Santa hat playing the bass. Worth checking out though as I can't find the track on Spotify and I notice Google seems to credit the track to Yes, making me wonder if there's some type of copyright dispute going on.
Anyway, King Crimson's Pete Sinfield wrote the lyrics but there's nary a 'veil of tears' in sight, while Squire takes lead vocal in a distinctly Jon Anderson style. It's been around since 1981 and sounds like it, but worth checking out if you're still searching for a Time and a Word.
Born at an early age a mere defenders' spit from the Boleyn ground, Billy Blagg has seen every West Ham game from 1898 onwards. Blagg was mentioned by Kenneth Wolstenholme in 1966 as one of the people on the pitch during the famous Hammers win over West Germany that lifted the World Cup and he returned to the pitch again for the 1975 FA Cup Final but stayed on the terrace for 1980 FA Cup victory. Blagg, 26, now lives with his eighth wife and innumerable children in a small semi-detached with chintz curtains in Dagenham, Essex and still attends every Hammers match and training session.
Born at an early age a mere defenders' spit from the Boleyn ground, Billy Blagg has seen every West Ham game from 1898 onwards. Blagg was mentioned by Kenneth Wolstenholme in 1966 as one of the people on the pitch during the famous Hammers win over West Germany that lifted the World Cup and he returned to the pitch again for the 1975 FA Cup Final but stayed on the terrace for 1980 FA Cup victory. Blagg, 26, now lives with his eighth wife and innumerable children in a small semi-detached with chintz curtains in Dagenham, Essex and still attends every Hammers match and training session.
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