Stay Another Day

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Stay Another Day is a pop song by the British boy band East 17 . The song was released in late 1994 and achieved coveted status as the number one Christmas hit on the UK singles chart. The song also rose to number 1 in the charts of Sweden, Ireland and Denmark, making it the band's biggest hit. The song was used in the pilot of the BBC drama series Dirk Gently .

background

Stay Another Day was the third single from the album Steam , East 17's second album, and the first ballad that the band released. Tony Mortimer , the group's main songwriter, dealt with the suicide of his brother Ollie in the song. He was assisted in the composition by his co-manager Rob Kean and the songwriter Dominic Hawken. The arrangement of the song contains bells at the end, with which a conscious attempt was made to appeal to the lucrative Christmas single market.

Video

Two music videos were shot for the song: One video consists of recordings of the band members singing the song in a studio, the other shows the band in white, furry parkas and black leather jackets against a black background. A woman in a dress and veil also appears while it is snowing. The latter video is usually shown around Christmas, while the first version is shown outside of the Christmas season.

Cover versions

On December 16, 2002, the girl group Girls Aloud released a cover version of the song.

On December 3, 2019, London Recordings uploaded a new version of the song to YouTube , performed by the Waltham Forest Youth Choir , with Mortimer on piano. Mortimer himself appears in the video. The video supports the British campaign Against Living Miserably .