read a book
I don't want a lot for Christmas
  There is just one thing I need
  I don't care about the presents
 Underneath the Christmas tree
—"All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey" (1994)

Over the years Mariah's original hit has overtaken "Last Christmas - Wham!" as my Christmas music earworm. So as Radio 1 spins it yet again, I've started turning the pages of her life in her words. I personally can list many of my personal favourite tracks (from the nineties and early noughties) but I always see to come back to and turn up the volume with the Fantasy remix featuring O.D.B — "Yo, New York in the house!"

Fun Fact: "Music Box", her third album was the very first CD that I ever purchased (if curious my first cassette album was "Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Richie" and I inherited "Another Brick in the Wall Part I & II - Pink Floyd" as my first vinyl albums from my dad.)

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