'On This Christmas Day' is a track from the Moody Blues sixteenth and last album 'December', written by bassist John Lodge, who sadly passed away this year.
Few bands rode the Zeitgeist of the Sixties like the Moodies, riding it so hard and for so long, they were still carrying their anachronistic, lush, mellotron-based, wry observations on life, love, eternal peace and understanding well into the 21st Century.
Lodge contributed two tracks to 'December', the other being 'The Spirit of Christmas' which features the awful line, 'Where did the spirit of Christmas go? / Lost in the desert all covered in snow,' leaving me little option but to plump for 'Christmas Day' as the track of choice.
Still the old LCD trippery can still see me enjoying Justin Hayward's 'Don't Need A Reindeer' which appeared on Day 10 of the 2008 Calendar for any of you still brave enough to venture there.
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