How is stay another day a christmas song

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Declan Cashin 18 December Share this:. Copy this link. Here's one final debate to tear the nation apart just before Christmas. There's also a clear Christmas bell chime section at the end of the track. My News. Personalise your news feed by choosing your favourite topics of interest. Create your own newsfeed. Irish News. Create my newsfeed. Open journalism No news is bad news Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you.

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Partner Publications. The latest Irish and international sports news for readers and members. A platform helping fund the type of in-depth journalism that the public wants to see. Yes No Vote. Short URL. About the author:. Contribute to this story: Leave a Comment. Send a Correction. Read next:. When people are leaving, you always wish you had one more day with them, and that's where the title came from. Mortimer was helped in writing the song by his co-manager Rob Kean and songwriter Dominic Hawken, who had once been Boy George's keyboard player.

Despite not being about Christmas, it is usually considered a festive classic. Christmas bells were added towards the end of the song, in order to appeal to the lucrative Christmas singles market. The song was released in late November, and ended up becoming that year's Christmas number one. Its music video is also very festive, as it sees the boys wearing white furry parkas while it snows in the background.

Mortimer later said: "It wasn't meant to be a Christmas single. Amid their high-octane pop hits, piano ballad Stay Another Day stood out as a highlight and remains a Christmas staple. Released in November , the song entered the charts at number seven, rising to number one the following week where it remained for five weeks, making it the Christmas number one single. While Ollie had battled with depression for all of his short life, Tony admits he never realised just how sick he was.

We were close as brothers — he was my older brother by three years — and I looked up to him. He took an overdose. But sometimes people get into a downward spiral and it gets to the point where the pendulum swings and the pain of leaving is less than the pain of staying. Thirty years have elapsed and Ollie never got to know what it is like to have a family or travel the world.