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  The Guardian

  Santa Claus is coming to frown! Why the best Christmas songs are sad and slow

  Who says festive numbers have to be merry? Marvin Gaye’s prisoner-of-war lament is a touching treat – while Prince’s track about a guy getting over a yuletide death with banana daiquiris is the jewel of the genre

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  Evening Standard

  ‘So here it is, Merry Christmas!’ Noddy Holder wakes his wife every December 25 shouting his Slade catchphrase

  The singer’s partner Suzan has suffered through this for 32 years.

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  BANG Showbiz

  Noddy Holder's wife is haunted by Merry Xmas Everybody during festive shopping trips

  Slade legend Noddy Holder's wife Suzan is haunted by 'Merry Xmas Everybody' whenever she goes out to do her Christmas shopping.

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  Chris Tarrant on getting flat for Ukraine family who ‘enhanced’ his home life

  The 76-year-old host also said he has not watched Jeremy Clarkson’s revival of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

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  Evening Standard

  Things to do in London for half term: How to have your best school break yet

  Urban crazy golf, an intergalatic science adventure, a treasure hunt in the wilderness (well, Morden Hall Park) — there are a million reasons to put down the iPad, says Jochan Embley

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  The Telegraph

  Noddy Holder: ‘You can’t evaluate how much I made from Merry Xmas Everybody’

  Neville “Noddy” Holder MBE, 76, is the musician who found fame in the early 1970s as the lead singer of Slade. The group had 13 UK Top 40 albums and 24 UK Top 40 singles, including six No 1 hits, among them Coz I Luv You, Mama Weer All Crazee Now, Cum on Feel the Noize and the million-plus seller Merry Xmas Everybody.

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  BANG Showbiz

  Merry Xmas Everybody is a nice pension plan, says Noddy Holder

  'Merry Xmas Everybody' is a "nice pension plan", according to Noddy Holder.

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  The Guardian

  ‘Everybody wants to know how much I make’: Noddy Holder on Merry Xmas Everybody

  With the 1973 No 1 back in the charts, Slade’s original frontman chats sideburns, custard pies and royalties

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  Evening Standard

  Christmas albums 2021 - our roundup of the crackers and the turkeys from Norah Jones to Gary Barlow

  We’ve listened... so you don’t have to

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  Evening Standard

  Christmas No 1s: Seven classic UK chart battles

  From Mariah Carey to, erm, Mr Blobby

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