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  The sad story behind the lyrics to East 17’s ‘Stay Another Day’ [old]

  On paper it should be terrible - all cheesy string sections and cliché chord progressions - and yet I think it’s precisely because of this that the song is quite wounding, as though the stereotypical elements of it reflect the shallowness and inevitability of Christmas, the chorus leaving you staring misty-eyed into your pint as the lights go up at the end of another work Christmas party. It was a bit of a risk as I didn’t know how well it was going to go down, but I wanted the lines to mean so

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  ‘Stay Another Day’: The sad story behind the lyrics to East 17’s Christmas hit [old]

  ‘It was all based on conversations I’d had with my brother’

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  The Independent

  ‘Stay Another Day’: The sad story behind the lyrics to East 17’s Christmas hit

  ‘It was all based on conversations I’d had with my brother’

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  LadBaby joined by Aled Jones and Tony Mortimer for Walkers Christmas advert

  The YouTuber appears dressed in a Father Christmas suit emblazoned with sausage rolls.

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  Tony Mortimer: 'Michael Jackson delayed Earth Song because of East 17'

  Tony Mortimer says if he'd had any idea just how successful East 17's Christmas hit Stay Another Day would be, he might never have written it. A song about loss, written a few years after his brother Ollie took his own life, he says it wasn't written with Christmas in mind. The song beat Mariah Carey 's All I Want For Christmas to the UK top spot, and Mortimer says she wasn't the only star to make way for East 17.

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  East 17 singer Brian Harvey arrested over 'malicious tweet'

  Former East 17 band member Brian Harvey has been arrested over claims he sent malicious tweets. The 43-year-old singer, who made his name in the 90s boy band, is being questioned by police in north London. The Metropolitan Police confirmed they received an allegation of malicious communications relating to a Twitter account.

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  East 17's Tony Mortimer confesses he hates 'Stay Another Day'

  Nothing quite says Christmas like four rough-looking lads from Walthamstow wearing oversized parkas, does it?

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