As we ramp up the festivities, Irish singer-songwriter Michael Gallagher suggests the key ingredients required to build a Christmas song...
Tag Archives: Christmas songs
The Swedish soft-rock duo’s lead singer reveals the ballad that graced the ‘Pretty Woman’ soundtrack was originally a Christmas song...
ACM was visited by several wise songwriters and asked for their pick of festive track and their New Year’s resolution...
Rod Stewart leads Shaun Keaveny’s all-star ensemble for 6 Music’s Christmas song, featuring Bernard Butler and Level 42’s Mark King...
Nothing raises the festive spirits like hearing your favourite seasonal tunes. Here’s our selection of the best-ever Christmas records… here...
The song which won the festive section of the 2013 UK Songwriting Contest will be ITV’s Text Santa Appeal theme...
Mission: record a selection of Christmas songs and make it fly. Impossible? Lowe ditches the sleigh bells and finds out...
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I wrote 'Start a party' for Freedom day and the nightclub scene. It all started with Gary Barlow's course, I am now on the TSA
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