Xmas No 1 song
December 28th, 2011 at 12:00 pm by David FarrarStuff reports:
A choir of wives of soldiers serving in Afghanistan topped the British singles charts this week, beating X Factor winners Little Mix to the Christmas No. 1 spot and outselling the rest of the top 12 put together.
Wherever You Are by Military Wives, a song written using excerpts from letters sent between military couples, sold 556,000 copies, the Official Charts Company said.
All proceeds from the single go to The Royal British Legion and the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen Families Association.
A nice reminder of how so many military families have to spend Xmas apart, doing their duty.
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December 28th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Could not agree more. Made me very emotional when I first heard it.
Vote:December 28th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
I imagine that lots of Afghan wives and mothers would get emotional about this video, too.
Vote:December 28th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Luc ..
If Afghani women instead of cringing beneath Burkas, were as strong as British women.
There would be no need to be emotional.
Vote:December 28th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
adam, woman are emotional with or without a burqua, it’s what makes them the weaker sex.
/sarc
Vote:December 28th, 2011 at 7:36 pm
Tell that to a Grimsby Fish Wife
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Vote:December 28th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
We saw his other three programs of choirs and he is very good at community building.
Good on him for this one too.
Shame on us for installing Islamic constitutions in Afghanistan and Iraq, now all the non Muslim citizens will legally (constitutionally) get treated as shit and we (NZ) helped set it up.
Vote:Fail!
December 28th, 2011 at 11:08 pm
Mick
“We” didn’t install “Islamic constitutions”: it was the choice of the (mainly) men “we” chose to decide on the form of said document.
As ye reap…
Vote:December 29th, 2011 at 8:10 am
This video is great. It showcases two divergent philosophies:
Liberalism: the military is irrelevant, people who fight are bad, we should all hold hands and sing John Lennon.
Conservatism: sometimes war is necessary to defeat bullies and evil.
Americans honour their soldiers regardless of the politics, but we don’t in NZ. We’re equivocal, ambivalent; but as 2012 progresses, nations will be increasingly forced to decide whether we fight militant islam to defend western culture (which is what Afghanistan is all about) something even the Syrian League is being confronted with in Syria right now.
Vote:December 29th, 2011 at 3:30 pm
Ugh!! I fought off nausea until about 1 minute in with the line “Light up the darkness, my prince of peace” when the bile rose up from my stomach.
Vote:Why is it every christmas U.K. has the most awful songs making #1?
How great it was last year when brits with musical taste staged a revolution (of sorts) and put Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the name of” at #1.
Back to the awfulness this year sadly.
December 30th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Maybe you should consider just foading bc. Take that bastion of terrorist cuddling luc with you.
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