But for every sliver of joy there are going to be dozens of occasions where, on dark cold gloomy winter evenings you are going to have to make a considered choice between stuff like Cliff Richard's Mistletoe and wine and David Essex's 'Winter Tale'.
Terrible, terrible things lurk in any Christmas No.1 list, and some of us are going to be damaged...
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