Day 10 - 'Rockin' around the Christmas Tree' - The Fab Four
"Blagg, Why do you do this every year and torture yourself - and us?", they ask me. Well, this is why...
How good is this? Not a Beatles tribute band but rather a homage group, think The Rutles plus, who record - wait for it! - only Christmas records in a Beatles pastiche style. Yay!
This is the regular 'Rockin' round the Christmas Tree' as recorded originally back in the '50's by Brenda Lee but probably more readily recognised by younger readers as a No: 1 for Mel and Kim - Kim Wilde and Mel Smith not the other ones - in a seasonal 'comedy' spoof. Here though it is done in such a way that it actually sounds like Twist 'n' Shout. Genius!
There's a 'One-Two-Three-Four' count-in like the opening to 'I Saw her Standing There' and the band launch into a glorious Beatles sound-alike before finishing with a screamed 'I got Christmas on my fingers!' a parody of Lennon's scream after 'Helter Skelter'.
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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