Robin Hugh Gibb was a British singer,songwriter and record producer,who gained worldwide fame as a member of the pop group the Bee Gees with older brother Barry and fraternal twin brother Maurice. Robin Gibb also had his own successful solo career. Their youngest brother Andy was also a singer.
Aled Jones,is a Welsh singer and radio and television presenter. As a teenage chorister,he reached widespread fame during the mid-1980s. Since then he has worked in television with the BBC and ITV,and radio.
Stephen David Williams is an English rower and double Olympic champion. In April and May 2011,Williams walked to the North Pole and achieved the summit of Mount Everest.
Melanie Clare Sophie Giedroyc is a British actress,comedian and television presenter. With Sue Perkins,she has co-hosted series including Light Lunch for Channel 4,The Great British Bake Off for the BBC and chat show Mel and Sue for ITV. In early 2017,Giedroyc co-presented the BBC show Let It Shine.
"Fairytale of New York" is a song written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan and recorded by their London-based band the Pogues,featuring singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl on vocals. The song is an Irish folk-style ballad and was written as a duet,with the Pogues' singer MacGowan taking the role of the male character and MacColl the female character. It was originally released as a single on 23 November 1987 and later featured on the Pogues' 1988 album If I Should Fall from Grace with God.
"Happy Xmas" is a Christmas song released in 1971 as a single by John &Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir. It was the seventh single release by John Lennon outside his work with the Beatles. The song reached number four in the UK,where its release was delayed until November 1972,and has periodically reemerged on the UK Singles Chart,most notably after Lennon's death in December 1980,when it peaked at number two.
"Danny Boy" is a ballad,written by English songwriter Frederic Weatherly in 1913,and set to the traditional Irish melody of "Londonderry Air".
Chas &Dave were a British pop rock duo,formed in London by Chas Hodges and Dave Peacock. They were most notable as creators and performers of a musical style labelled rockney,which mixes "pub singalong,music-hall humour,boogie-woogie piano and pre-Beatles rock 'n' roll". For a time,Rockney was also the name of their record label,their major breakthrough being "Gertcha" in 1979,which peaked at No. 20 in the UK Singles Chart,and was the first of eight Top 40 hit singles the duo played on. They had their biggest success in the early 1980s with "Rabbit" and "Ain't No Pleasing You". They also had nine charting albums. In October 2013 they released That's What Happens,their first studio album in 18 years.
Alistair Richard Griffin is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Already an established songwriter,he first became famous as a solo artist through his appearances on the BBC television show Fame Academy 2 in 2003,where he was mentored by Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees. He subsequently had two top twenty hit singles and a top twenty album in the UK.
"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" is a Christmas song recorded by British glam rock band Wizzard. It was first released in December 1973 and,as with most Wizzard songs,was written and produced by the band's frontman Roy Wood—formerly of The Move and a founding member of Electric Light Orchestra. Despite the song's strong,long-lasting popularity,it has reached no higher than number four on the UK Singles Chart,a position it occupied for four consecutive weeks from December 1973 to January 1974. The song was beaten to the 1973 Christmas Number 1 spot by Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody",which remained at the top of the charts for five weeks,from December 1973 to January 1974.
Allegra Elizabeth Jane Stratton is a British former political aide,journalist,and writer who served as Downing Street Press Secretary under Boris Johnson from November 2020 to April 2021.
Stacey Chanelle Clare Solomon is an English singer and television personality. She finished in third place on the sixth series of The X Factor in 2009,and won the tenth series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2010. Her debut single,a cover of "Driving Home for Christmas",was released in 2011,followed by her debut studio album,Shy,in 2015. In 2016,Solomon presented I'm a Celebrity:Extra Camp, and began appearing as a panellist on the ITV talk show Loose Women.
The ACM Gospel Choir is a British gospel choir made up of students of the Academy of Contemporary Music. The group first came to public attention in the summer of 2008 when they gained 4th place in BBC One's Saturday night show Last Choir Standing. Shortly after leaving the show the choir released their first album.
Alexander John Gregory,is an English rower and a two-time Olympic Gold medallist from 2012 and 2016 in the Coxless four.
The Military Wives Choirs is a registered charity and network of 75 choirs in British military bases across the UK and overseas,bringing women in the military community closer together through singing. With over 2,200 members,the MWC network is tri-service and any woman with a military connection can join including those currently serving,veterans,mothers,sisters and daughters,empowering women from across the military community. The organisation is also a subsidiary charity of SSAFA.
The Games Maker Choir is a choir formed of Games Makers,volunteers who participated in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The choir was set up during the Olympic Games after Victoria Verbi,a university student and Games Maker on the Olympic Park,placed a call for singers in the volunteers' newsletter. Within two days she had more than 200 members and the choir went on to perform at several locations around the Olympic Park and on local radio during the Olympics.
The 151st Boat Race took place on 27 March 2005. Oxford won the race by two lengths in a time of 16 minutes 41 seconds. The race,umpired by the six-time Boat Race winner Boris Rankov,featured seven Olympic rowers. It was the first time the event was broadcast in the United Kingdom on ITV.
"One Child" is a song by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey from her second Christmas album/thirteenth studio album,Merry Christmas II You (2010). It was written and produced by Carey in collaboration with Broadway composer Marc Shaiman. Backed by a children's choir,the lyrics are about the birth of Jesus. "One Child" received a mixed to negative response from critics,many of whom disapproved of the overbearing sentiment. In the United States,the track peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Gospel Digital Chart,and on the lower regions of the South Korea international single's charts. Carey performed the song at the Christmas in Washington event in November 2010.
"Fly" is a song by Canadian singer Avril Lavigne. It was released on April 16,2015,for digital download by the Special Olympics,Inc. Lavigne released the song as a charity single for the Avril Lavigne Foundation to support the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games. The song was written by Lavigne,Chad Kroeger and David Hodges. All the proceeds from the single will be contributed to the ongoing work being done by the Avril Lavigne Foundation.
"A Bridge over You" is a charity single recorded and released independently by the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir,the choir of the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust located in south-east London. It is a mashup of "Bridge over Troubled Water" by Simon &Garfunkel and Coldplay's 2005 single "Fix You",with additional arrangement by the choir's conductor,Peter Mitchell. It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart at Christmas 2015.
