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This title will tell the whole story by covering a dozen Christmas number ones, stretching from ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ in 1950 – a song that feels like it’s been around forever – to Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’, which finally made it to number one in 2023, thirty-nine years after it was first released. Each chapter will talk about the background behind each song, the songwriter and the performer. Not all of them will be Christmas songs – the Beatles dominated the Christmas number one slot in the sixties, and the Spice Girls likewise in the late nineties, but none of them were Christmas songs.
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This work opens in 1979 with the abduction of a young boy outside a Glasgow football ground. Nine years later, the boy’s brother, Aaron Murray, is on the cusp of that moment when adolescence becomes adulthood. His own journey of grief and recovery has been guided by an angel, ‘The Precious Gift’ – perhaps imagined, perhaps real – who has blessed Aaron with redemptive, messianic powers. These have enabled him to see through the past and present, joining the dots between a vast array of characters; ballerinas, soldiers, poets, burlesque dancers, East End gangsters and the Vampire of Derry over five decades, all tied up in each other’s fate. As Aaron’s visions span cities and decades, from wartime Paris to the Troubles in the 1970s, Mexico City in the 1980s to – of course – Glasgow, Boyhood builds to an extraordinary, intense, climactic moment of redemption.
The Good Time 