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Album: Emerson, Lake And Palmer: Works 2 (1975). Charted: 2 95. Get the Sheet Music License This Song. Maye the real lesson of "I Believe in Father Christmas" isn't that it's been perverted by Commercial interests; but that there is so little left in Christmas that resembles what it was created for, that most of us have never even heard the true message of this special celebration the first place. Lianna from Sylva, NcIt is also really funny to me how many people presume to speak for Greg Lake, or anyone else.

I Believe in Father Christmas is a song by English musician Greg Lake with lyrics by Peter Sinfield. Although it is often categorised as a Christmas song, this was not Lake’s intention. He said that he wrote the song in protest at the commercialisation of Christmas. Sinfield, however, said that the words are about a loss of innocence and childhood belief. Released in 1975, the song reached number two on the UK Singles Chart. U2 (on the 2009 Starbucks charity compilation All You Need Is Love), Joe McElderry on his 2011 album Classic Christmas, Susan Boyle (on her 2013 album Home for Christmas) and Hannah Peel as the B-side of her 2014 single Find Peace. In 2005 Lake wrote a letter to The Guardian about the song, in answer to a reader question: In 1975, I wrote and recorded a song called I Believe in Father Christmas, which some Guardian readers may remember and may even own.

I Believe In Father Christmas". from the album Works Volume 2. B-side. Mostly notable of these re-releases is a 1995 EP titled I Believe in Father Christmas, which includes Lake's original single as well as the Works Volume II version. The song has been covered by other artists, including Elaine Paige (on her 1986 album Christmas), Canadian band Honeymoon Suite (on the 1989 WEA compilation album Revellion), Vertical Horizon (on the 2002 compilation Holiday: Sounds of the Season 2002), Sarah Brightman (on her 2008 album A Winter Symphony), U2 (on the 2009 Starbucks charity compilation All You Need Is Love), Joe McElderry  . Greg Lake's I Believe In Father Christmas". Retrieved 16 August 2015.

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Greg Lake was born on 10 November 1947 in the Parkstone area of Poole in Dorset, to Harry, an engineer, and Pearl, a housewife. He grew up in the residential suburb of Oakdale. Speaking about his childhood, Lake said he was "born in an asbestos prefab housing unit" into a "very poor" family, and remembered. In 1975, while still a member of ELP, Lake achieved solo chart success when his single, "I Believe in Father Christmas", reached number two on the UK Singles Chart. It has become a Yuletide perennial Several months following the break-up of ELP in 1979, Lake began to write new songs and had "put down a tremendous amount of material" for his first solo album.

From the Uncut archives this week, the creation of a very unlikely festive hi. ar-footage in the promo, a stripper in the studio and swelteringly hot recording sessions. Lake himself, co-writer and co-producer Peter Sinfield, orchestrator Godfrey Salmon, ELP tour manager Andrew Lane and manager Stewart Young tell the story of a Yuletide perennial (originally in Uncut’s January 2011 issue, Take 164). Interviews: Garry Mulholland. It’s difficult to sum up the impact of first hearing I Believe In Father Christmas as a child in 1975.

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