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Your Best Christmas, EVER!

Gary provides the soundtrack to your Christmas Eve with two hours of the decade’s festive favourites, memories of your Best Christmas Ever and a tribute to Terry Hall.

1 hour, 57 minutes

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Christmas Eve 202220:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bucks Fizz

    The Land Of Make Believe

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Bryan Adams

    Run Rudolph Run

    • A Very Special Christmas (Various).
    • A&M.

  • Chris de Burgh

    A Spaceman Came Travelling

    • Now And Then.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 6.

  • Desireless

    Voyage Voyage

    • Hits Album 8, Part 1 (Various).
    • Hits Album.

  • THE MASTERMIX – TERRY HALL

    • Fun Boy Three

      The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)

      • Chrysalis.

    • Fun Boy Three

      The Tunnel of Love

      • Greatest Hits of the 80s.
      • EMI Gold.
      • 307.

    • Fun Boy Three

      Our Lips Are Sealed

      • Chrysalis.

    • The Colour Field

      Thinking Of You

      • The Singles.
      • Connoisseur Collection.

    • The Specials

      Ghost Town

      • Two-Tone Records.

    • The Specials

      Too Much Too Young

      • The Best Of The Specials.
      • Chrysalis Records Limited.
      • 10.

    • The Specials

      Do Nothing

    • Fun Boy Three & Bananarama

      It Ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do It

      • Smash Hits: The Reunion.
      • Virgin.
      • 120.

  • Madonna

    Dear Jessie

    • Madonna - Like A Prayer.
    • Sire.

  • Roxette

    It Must Have Been Love (Christmas For The Broken-Hearted)

    • The Best Rock Ballads in the World… Ever! Volume 2.
    • Virgin.
    • 213.

  • MY 80s: PER GESSLE

    • David Bowie

      Modern Love

    • Go‐Go’s

      Vacation

    • XTC

      Senses Working Overtime

    • Tom Petty

      Free Fallin’

  • GARY'S BIT IN THE MIDDLE

    • Bros

      Silent Night

      • Push.
      • Cherry Pop.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town

  • Freiheit

    Keeping The Dream Alive

    • The Best Christmas... Ever! (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • T’Pau

    China In Your Hand

    • The 80's Love Album (Various Artists.
    • Virgin.

  • Modern Talking

    It's Christmas

    • In The Garden Of Venus.
    • RCA/Hansa.
    • 5.

  • TURN BACK TIME: CHRISTMAS 1984

    • Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus

      We All Stand Together

      • We All Stand Together.
      • MPL.
      • A.

    • Wham!

      Last Christmas

      • Classic Cuts: Christmas Cuts.
      • Music Factory.
      • 110.

    • Band Aid

      Do They Know It's Christmas? (12" Mix)

      • NOW That's What I Call Christmas.
      • Now! Music.
      • 19.

  • Lisa Stansfield

    All Around The World

    • The Ivor Novello Winners.
    • EMI.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

  • Culture Club

    Victims

    • Culture Club - Greatest Moments.
    • Virgin.

  • Jackie Wilson

    Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want To Meet)

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • The Specials

    Enjoy Yourself

    • MORE SPECIALS.
    • Chrysalis.

Broadcast

  • Christmas Eve 202220:00
    BBC Radio 2