Must Be Dylan - The Facebook Campaign
Do you remember a time when the battle for a Christmas Number One used to be a fun chapter in the music diary? An event which captured all of our imaginations and sparked many debates about which one hit will prevail; families huddled around the radio on the Sunday evening before Christmas tuning into the chart countdown. The disappointment when your prediction for the chart topper limped in as a new entry at only number 3. A flurry of novelty hits and also genuine pop performers all vying for the most prestigious of pole positions; who will be the crowned the king of the UK Christmas pop charts?Below are just a few examples of classic Christmas number ones, songs which (love them or hate them) captured not just the spirit of Christmas, but also the apparent eccentricity of the British public.
Slade - "Merry Christmas Everybody"
Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
Cliff Richard - "Mistletoe & Wine"
Pink Floyd - "Another Brick In The Wall"
Renée and Renato - "Save Your Love"
Mud – “Lonely This Christmas”
Now here are three of the most offensive offerings in the last four years out of the Cowell Empire.
Shayne Ward - "That's My Goal"
Leon Jackson - "When You Believe"
Alexandra Burke - "Hallelujah"
Alas, the way in which the music buying general public are exposed to new artists has altered, seemingly irreversibly, from a rational aural experience to an irrational virtual-reality televised one. This new, almost Orwellian way of exposure to ‘music’ has never been more powerful and contagious than it is every December when millions of subjects are influenced to buy the winning record of a TV show.
For the majority of this decade, Simon Cowell has ensured that this once fun event no longer occurs, just so he can line his belly-bound trouser pockets with millions of pounds handed over at shop-tills the width and breadth of the country in a zombie-like fashion by a public brainwashed after 12 weeks of indoctrination every Saturday night.
This is why I have decided to kick-start a campaign to show the bleach-toothed effete one that the UK’s music loving population is fed-up with his wretched disingenuous monopoly.
Introducing… Bob Dylan's - "Must Be Santa"... Last year, Jeff Buckley gave us all hope that common sense and love of music will one day prevail. The appreciation and awareness of Buckley’s outstanding version of Hallelujah introduced a whole new audience to his talents, and also gave way to contempt for Cowell and the sadly more popular Burke version. This year there is no more powerful an icon than Bob Dylan who, at the age of 68, has created one of the catchiest and most spirited Christmas records since the glam hey-day of the Seventies. Not only that, he has also made a video that when, accompanied with the music, will cheer up even the most miserable of Scrooges.
So all I ask is that between the 14th & 20th December 2009 (or before if you must), people will visit iTunes or Amazon and download this remarkable record and get it to number one. Remember all proceeds of this record go to the following charities:
Feeding America will receive Dylan's royalties from sales in the USA.
Crisis will receive Dylan's royalties from sales in the UK.
United Nations' World Food Programme will benefit from all other sales.
If you still not convinced I will leave you with one simple question:
Wouldn’t you rather help the poor, hungry and unfortunate people of the world than pay for Cowell’s next multi-million pound lavish self-indulgent birthday bash or 60-a-day cigarette habit?
DEADLOCK: We are taking you to the public vote Cowell!!!!
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