Graeme Thomson

Christmas songs that will reduce your gas bills

The most cost-efficient option for this year is to snuggle up to songs that emit a genuine in-built warmth

Natalie Cole with her father Nat King Cole, c.1970. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images  
issue 17 December 2022

It’s unlikely that Irving Berlin was pondering the energy price cap when he composed the seasonal standard ‘I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm’ in 1937. ‘I can’t remember a worse December, just watch those icicles form,’ he wrote, a sentiment many of us can surely relate to right now – but wait! ‘What do I care if icicles form,’ he continues.

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