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From George Michael hogging the sleigh bells in the studio to pratfalling on the snowy video set, the beloved Christmas song is testament to the late pop star’s talent – and insecurities

MARCUS BERKMANN: I don't love all pop. It's these prejudices, more than the enthusiasms, that make me want to write about pop across the world. Who wants to know about the good stuff?

Brother pays tribute to Nairn-born drummer Mark Ellen By Donald Wilson Published: 18:30, 02 March 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper Vanity Fare on tour in 2015. A NAIRN musician who played with some of the music greats of the sixties and seventies has died suddenly at his home on the Isle of Sheppey Mark Ellen (72) was a drummer in the band Vanity Fare who had a hit with their song "Hitchin' a Ride" in 1970. Mark was the son of Robbie Ellen and former Nairn District Councillor Chrissie Ellen.

There’s a scene in Cameron Crowe’s 2000 coming-of-age film Almost Famous that acutely sums up the complicated morality of life as a rock journalist. It’s 1973 and the bushy-tailed protagonist and aspiring writer, William, is about to embark on a weeks-long tour to cover a rock band he loves for Rolling Stone. It’s his dream come true. He eagerly calls his mentor, a fictionalised version of the real-life editor of Creem magazine, Lester Bangs, to tell him the good news and Bangs promptly pours cold water on his enthusiasm. “You cannot make friends with the rock stars,” Bangs tel...