Single:
I Believe In Father Christmas entered the Australian singles chart* on 22 December 1975 and peaked at #98.
Songwriters:
Greg Lake, Sergei Prokofiev, Peter Sinfield
Producers:
Greg Lake, Peter Sinfield
Record label of Australian release:
Atlantic
1975 video:
The video for the record was shot on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, and in the Dead Sea Scrolls caves in the West Bank, and includes footage from the Vietnam War.
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Official 50th anniversary video released in November 2025:
Wikipedia:
Written by Greg Lake with King Crimson co-founder Pete Sinfield, I Believe in Father Christmas was originally intended as a protest at the commercialisation of Christmas, but has since, decade after decade, been recognised by fans for its timeless message of peace and unity during the holiday season.
The instrumental riff between verses comes from the Troika portion of Sergei Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kijé Suite, written for the 1934 Soviet film Lieutenant Kijé.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Believe_in_Father_Christmas
Lyrics:
They said there’ll be snow at Christmas
They said there’ll be peace on Earth
But instead it just kept on raining
A veil of tears for the Virgin birth
I remember one Christmas morning
A winters light and a distant choir
And the peal of a bell and that Christmas Tree smell
And eyes full of tinsel and fire
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