Dec 2012 17
The xx take on Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’ for BBC Radio 1′s Live Lounge and as you’d expect – it’s quite the contrast. Gone is the camp-innocence of the 1984 original and in its place a typically xx melancholy. And… it kind of works. We all know behind the mince pies, mulled wine and festive knitwear everyone is just massively depressed anyway, so get involved I say…
[...] First dropped the John Talabot & Pional Blinded remix of ‘Chained’, then the bands cover of Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’ emerged and now a three-part documentary curated and produced by the [...]