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By: Kirsty,
on 12/13/2007
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By Kirsty OUP-UK
Growing up, one of the highlights of Christmas Day was to tune into Top of the Pops so that I could hear what had made it to the coveted Christmas Number 1 slot. While over the last two or so years the number 1 single has been a result of The X Factor - basically our American Idol, complete with Simon Cowell and Sharon Osbourne - in previous years the bookies have taken a huge amount of money in bets on who would make it to the top spot. And nothing says Christmas like a novelty record or two somewhere in the running. Join Colin Larkin, editor of Oxford’s 10 volume Encyclopedia of Popular Music (which will also be launching online very soon) as he gives his expert opinion on Christmas Records of our time.
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