Ricky Warwick shares heavy festive single ‘All I Want For Christmas… Is Christmas!’ with The Cult’s Billy Duffy and Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott

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The Cult‘s Billy Duffy and Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott.The new track follows the announcement of Warwick’s upcoming solo album Blood Ties, which will be out on March 14 via Earache Records.“Christmas always seemed magical to me when I was young.

We didn’t have a lot of money, but we had a lot of family,” the Black Star Riders and Thin Lizzy frontman said in a press release. “I always hoped, in vain, that it would snow on Christmas Eve, the only day of the year when my parents could get me to go to bed early so Christmas Day would arrive faster!“My old man would put Perry Como’s Christmas album on which I pretended to hate but secretly liked as it made everything seem right.

We weren’t a particularly religious family, but my two sisters and I would religiously watch Christmas Top Of The Pops. I was mesmerised by the Glam Rock brilliance of Slade and Roy Wood’s Wizzard.

Those festive feelings never diminished as I grew older and I tried to pass them down to my own kids.“Christmas just seemed to be simpler back in the day… Pretty much like most things… We sadly seem to be so out of touch with ourselves and each other now.