Last Christmas

If we keep on throwing toys out without rhyme nor reason, we're going to be drowning in rubbish,” says toy mender Antonio Martinez Rivas.

because it’s a way of recycling toys so you don’t keep buying more,” said Mr Hinojal. “Some tell me: ‘Don’t change it’. “It’s a real art, and we’re leaving with a sense of nostalgia and sadness but also really glad that we were able to come,” she said, adding that she’d seen a small slide projector and a papier mache horse like the ones she had as a child. “There are those who think like that just as there are those who talk to their dolls.” “We are the only ones working on every type of toy” in Spain, said Mr Rivas, a Madrid native who learnt from his father how to repair toys. “Now, it’s me they are going to repair,” he tells a customer in his gravelly voice, alluding to his ongoing battle with cancer.

'Tis the season for holiday jams, and synth-pop band Future Islands has embraced that mentality by covering Wham!'s “Last Christmas.” The cover can be heard ...

The cover also has an added addition of icy synth that gives the song something special. [acting](https://music.mxdwn.com/2022/07/04/news/future-islands-samuel-t-herring-to-make-acting-debut/) in Apple TV+’s drama series The Changeling which was his debut into the world of TV entertainment. [new single](https://music.mxdwn.com/2022/02/16/news/future-islands-share-energetic-new-track-king-of-sweden-announce-international-calling-out-in-space-2022-tour-dates/) and going on tour in November throughout Europe and the UK.

Last year, at the Ikea in Rostov-on-Don, South Russia, I splashed out on some especially good Christmas decorations. I had an eight-year-old, half-Russian ...

In Rostov children will be sledging in Gorky Park and the square in front of the cathedral filling up with Christmas trees. Now in Italy, my fourth country this year, I can see the Mediterranean from my balcony, and instead of taking my daughter to school through snow, ice and streets named after Soviet heroes, we walk along the coast. Perhaps I should have trusted in the Latin temperament (the Georgians without doubt being the Italians of Eastern Europe) and risked the journey seven months back. In the aftermath of Putin’s invasion, I couldn’t take it in at all. It was a time unlike any other – a mixture of freedom, confusion, connection and loss – and one that felt strangely meant to be. He accepted Putin as a fact of life and though not angrily against the war, wanted no part in it. One Russian boy – beautifully-mannered and (I supposed) silver-spooned, became my smoking partner out on the balcony. After Putin’s mobilisation in September the hotel – usually so quiet – filled up to capacity with them. Getting out of Russia at all with them seemed miraculous, and the early days in Yerevan, Armenia – my first stop – were a strange mixture of relief, grief and fluttery dislocation. There was no going straight back to England: the cats needed blood tests, documents, and a long wait for clearance. There was no room for baubles or fairy-lights in my luggage, and not much to celebrate either. Last year, at the Ikea in Rostov-on-Don, South Russia, I splashed out on some especially good Christmas decorations.

Tomas Mazetti and wife Hannah hate the song so much they want to banish it to the history books.

"Some people seem to love to hear the song 500 times a day. Hannah and Tomas, a writer, said they want it to be known they "don't hate Wham!" "It started last Christmas - pun not intended - when we asked friends how much they would be willing to pay never to hear the song again.

Tomas Mazetti, 55, and his wife Hannah, 33, have already raised a staggering $62,100 to banish the Christmas classic from history books. Hannah's hatred for the ...

"I’m sorry, but this is the way it has to be," she said. "They said that there are even worse songs that should be taken off before this - like Mariah Carey’s 'All I want for Christmas' - and that if we don’t like it, we could wear headphones, and that it is strange to want to remove something beautiful for the rest of humanity just because we don’t like it." She added: "Some people love to hear the song 500 times a day – and those people are our enemies." A couple who hate 'Last Christmas' by Wham! "It is because it is being played 5,000 times per day, but we felt something had to be done to support the people that suffer like us." "Someone told us it was theoretically possible to buy the rights to the song and take it off all streaming platforms!

The actor, who is currently starring in the University Concert Hall panto in Limerick, proposed to his girlfriend Brenda over the festive season last year ...

My heart really goes out to the cast and the crew of the Toy Show. We all live in the complex and we’re all just with each other. But Brenda's family are just brilliant and they look after me and my mum so well." Obviously with the travelling crowds coming down from Belfast and Cork and they’re not getting refunds of their hotel…it’s just a disaster." "So myself, my mum, we’re going to go down and spend it with Brenda and her family and her house in Kilcullen. But look, opening night people go out and it’s bound to happen.

Tomas and Hannah Mazetti have already raised over £50000 to banish the song forever.

Hannah and Tomas, a writer, said they want it to be known they 'don't hate Wham!' but reckon the song is overplayed. She continued: "It started last Christmas - pun not intended - when we asked friends how much they would be willing to pay never to hear the song again. "50 per cent get really angry and 50 per cent get really happy," Hannah said. He was only in now and then, so he didn’t fully appreciate the agony the rest of the staff felt when 'Last Christmas' played for the 111th time of the working day." So far, 327 people have pledged $62,100 (£51,553) to get rid of the song for good. so much they're raising money to buy the song rights to take the tune off the air forever.

The group's song is titled Food Aid, a parody of Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? track from 1984. The song's music video shows Martin Lewis singing ...

They, too, will be donating the profits to a charity: Fareshare. This is by far the best the YouTube sensation's chances have looked all year and may bring about their fifth consecutive number one single. The list of songs will be announced in descending order, so the official number one may not be revealed until closer to 5pm.

The song, which is raising money for UK food banks and the Band Aid trust, sold 65,000 copies to beat Wham's much-loved Last Christmas. LadBaby, aka Mark and ...

"And if that isn't in the form of a song, it doesn't mean we won't show up somewhere else." To do it five times, in successive years, is unprecedented and frankly incredible." Wait until we go somewhere else and can't do that, too." If you have a story suggestion email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). You think we can't sing? "All we can say is thank you." "I'm sorry! "It's unbelievable, isn't it?" "We want to do whatever we can at Christmas to support food banks," added her husband. "A massive apology to The Beatles, and to all The Beatles' fans," said Mark. Their track, Christmas Drillings, was also raising money to fight food poverty in the UK, and featured vocals from KSI and grime legend JME. Martin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company, said: "Securing one Christmas number one is a huge achievement in itself.

Social media star Mark Hoyle and his wife Roxanne, known as LadBaby Mum, claimed the top spot with their single Food Aid, which reworks the Band Aid song Do ...

“Thank you to all the people who have downloaded, all the people who believed in us and brought a bit of Christmas magic. A massive apology to The Beatles, and to all The Beatles’ fans… “We want to say thank you to everyone who has supported us for the last five years.