Christmas 1987 Frank Koustrup

Edited version of Frank Koustrup Fan Club OFFICIAL 1987 Christmas Tape.

Christmas 1987 is a satire of the popular music business — fan clubs, merchandise, gimmicks. This composition takes a cue from The Beatles’ Christmas records. Commercial phrases such as “For Christmas gift-giving ideas”, “Just can’t wait for Christmas”, build to a shameless, hyperventilated plug for a Greatest Hits record. Rolling echoes devolve into a looping mantra that “Rock and roll is dead”.

  • Year of composition: 1987
  • Genre: Electroacoustics
  • Format: Fixed media
  • Duration of the submitted work: 2:45
  • Production: Hope Street (home)
  • Premiere: 1988, Performed at the CEC Diffusion festival in Toronto – the shortest composition on the program, but with the longest title

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Also part of Greatest Hots.

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