![]() ![]() ![]() Toggle mute Use shift and the arrow up and down keys to change the volume. Skip to previous Play current Skip to next. ![]() One of the better Christmas novelty tracks, and much more listenable than you might expect. The Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion Next up. Strachan throws the Christmas kitchen sink into the electric piano-led production, which features horns, bells and a choir, but manages to give the track room to breathe. In contrast with the technical wizardry behind the vocal locs from Max is a very seasonal arrangement courtesy of producer Keith Strachan, who would later play a prominent part in the 1988 Christmas number one. Written by the writers behind the Channel 4 show, it's quite a straight Christmas song lyrically, albeit with an irreverent edge. The character's popularity led to him featuring on a hit single with The Art of Noise, Paranoimia, in 1986, which no doubt led Chrysalis Records to release this solo Christmas single, in which Max urges the listener to send some Christmas love back to the selfless St Nick. Bryce, the engineer behind these adverts, uses the wonderful line, 'I only invent the bomb, I dont drop it. They were advertisements that make old people watching them explode. Debuting in 1985 in TV movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into The Future, the character went to host a Channel 4 music programme, and later featured in his own US TV drama series. These were part of the fictional subject matter of the first Max Headroom TV Show. Max Headroom - Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You're A Lovely Guy)īilled as the World's first computer generated TV host, Max Headroom was actually actor Matt Frewer behind complex prosthetic make-up and digitally-manipulated speech patterns. On the side B disc label, tracks B2 and B3 are incorrectly credited to 'The Art Of Noise With Max Headroom' instead of 'The Art Of Noise'. ![]()
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