Day 7: 'I Want to Come Home for Christmas' - Marvin Gaye
I've been intending to include Gaye's 'Purple Snowflakes' for a couple of years, then while researching - stop laughing at the back! - that track, I found this curio from 1972.
The Viet-nam war was still raging then, of course, and in this song Gaye plays the part of a homesick POW wishing he was home for Christmas. Shortly after this track, Marvin Gaye embarked on his 'What's Going On' period, a move that catapulted him into super-stardom and enshrined his name in the annals of classic soul forever. There’s a trace of that mood already here; Gaye's impassioned, soulful voice as smooth as a White Chocolate drink from Whittards.
I knew a bloke once who was sent home from work for wearing a black shirt on the day that Marvin Gaye died; another sad indictment on the 80’s.
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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