Elton John:
“Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher, we celebrate today ‘cos it’s one day closer to your death”, the cast sing. Four times in a row. While wearing Maggie masks.
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John’s decision to record his own rendition of “Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher,” the miners’ sarcastic holiday song, in which they celebrate Christmas only because it brings the hated prime minister one day closer to her death. This must be the most politically charged song John has ever recorded
Being senior citizen, therefore pretty much a slept I have to admit I have never heard this.