Season's Greetings! Each day in December leading up to Christmas, we'll be presenting another nugget of pop-Christmas magic: some of it good, some of it terrible, some of it by Bryan Adams. Enjoy!

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Another Lonely Christmas

Prince and the Revolution, 1984

Revolution-era Prince sings to his dead girlfriend, reminiscing about swimming and gambling (well, pokeno). We’re not sure if it was pneumonia or strep throat that did her in, but Prince admits to spending the last seven years drinking himself blind on banana daiquiris and admiring her younger sister. Fa la la la la, la la, la la.