Welcome to my Christmas song
I’d like to thank you for the year
I somehow never heard Elton John’s “Step Into Christmas” before 2014. I don’t know how I missed it for forty Christmases. When I finally did, it came as this lovely discovery of middle age. It’s such a happy song, with a vision of the season, wry and sincere at the same time, relishing the past and looking forward to the future. When the ad nauseum Christmas music radio stations play it, I turn it up. I love that song.
What could this awesome song have been like in context? When was it was first released?
“Step Into Christmas” was released in the Christmas season of 1973.
Oh.
The Library You See in Dreams 