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When Mariah Carey's fourth studio album and first holiday-themed album Merry Christmas came out in October 1994, it climbed to number three on the Billboard 200, but its standout song, 'All I Want for Christmas Is You', was not commercially released as a single and it was therefore ineligible for a spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Backed by...

The How and Why of 25 December: The Early History of Christmas It took three hundred years following the death of Christ before Christians began celebrating his birth on 25 December. The fathers of the early Church were not sure that birthdays ought to be celebrated. Origen (185-253/254) wrote that 'In the Scriptures, no one is recorded to have kept a feast...

You are all alone. You are not alone, but you're 'waiting for the day', as The Beach Boys once sang, when it might be otherwise. You are surrounded, now cosseted, now buffeted by family and friends, surfeited on mince pies and chocolate boxes, and seeking the respite of music, or a selection sufficiently unfamiliar that it might shoo them...