10 Least Festive Christmas Songs Ever
2. Chris De Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling
This track is a long way from Chris De Burgh’s other big hit, Lady In Red, and so much the better for it. It’s also a long way from anything you might usually associate with Christmas. Instead, this proggy number reframes the birth of Jesus as a sci-fi fantasy.
Turns out, the star guiding the three wise men to the virgin birth was a spaceship, hovering above Bethlehem. Its pilot? An angel faced alien from a distant planet who strikes fear into the heart of mother and child before filling the air with “the sweetest music.”
Later, before flying away, he promises his song will begin again, “when two thousand years of your time has gone by.” So maybe it was 1999 by Prince? That got played a lot for the new millennium.
It’s all good fun, especially when DeBurgh gets all impassioned towards the end, singing about thousands of people, “standing on the edge of the world,” but the song is about as festive as an episode of Star Trek.