Chris De Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling Reaction

[@geoffjoffy]

An amazing song I first heard in 1975. I was 13.

[@richardchin2633]

If you are lucky enough to find a video of Chris de Burgh performing 'A Spaceman Came Travelling' with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall on Christmas Day (around ten years ago), please listen to it - it's extraordinarily beautiful!

[@Malfie657]

Thanks for featuring this slightly different take on the nativity story, and you're right about Chris' voice too it's very smooth.

[@Newfie-zc7ug]

Nobody tells stories like Chris ! Nobody . Peace and Love

[@judyduguay8673]

My all time favorite of this artist

[@colrhodes377]

This is one of my favourite Christmas songs. As you've probably guessed, I'm an out and out rocker but this song sends shivers through me

[@dard683]

one of the best songwriters of the lasy 60 yrars

[@angiewegenerdjmetalamazon4468]

That was a song I listened to back in the 70s. Love it, thanks for the reaction! :D

[@jamespasifull3424]

Well, it's just as believable as the story we've been given for the last 2 millennia!! 👽

[@kevcall]

Great reaction to a song we hear every year

[@hanierfamily]

It's a first for us.

[@kevcall]

@@hanierfamily I guess in the UK we take it for granted the US would be listening to the same songs. Happy Xmas! 🎄

[@brucemckay1611]

You can’t here Chris doing the la la thing without blissing out

[@brucemckay1611]

I’m just mortified, spellcheck changed (hear) to (here) I swear, auto correct is out to get me. And they’re still working on AI? Pretty scary

[@hanierfamily]

Happens to us all the time.

[@jungleking9703]

The lyrics say that he halted his craft and it hung in the star like a star, but it also goes on to say hebfollowed a light thatvled him to the house so im not so sure that the star of Bethlehem was the spacemans craft orbit was the light of another star.

[@robertbagley9199]

Brilliant, now I just need Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses to complete my set lol

[@thomasalmond3311]

Hi Robert, up until a few years ago I used to think that Christmas Wrapping was by Bananarama!!!.

[@jalontf2]

Could have easily been a Moody Blues song. Hopefully the spaceman didnt pay the ferryman...

[@sandgrownun66]

So jezus was an alien?

[@marcelotto6825]

No. The spacemen came to celebrate the birth of Jesus on earth.

[@sandgrownun66]

@@marcelotto6825 According to some old book. Weren't humans supposedly created by god in his/her/its image? Where's the mention of him/her/it creating another race of beings? Also, why were they made much more technologically advanced than we were?

[@CrispyCrow555]

​@@sandgrownun66 De Burgh read Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Däniken. The book made him think "what if the star of Bethlehem was a space craft and what if there is a benevolent being or entity in the universe keeping an eye on the world and our foolish things that we do to each other?" Chris was also a fan of Irish poet William Butler Yeats, whose work "The Second Coming" avers that every 2,000 years or so there would be a major cataclysmic event happening, de Burgh saw the birth of Christ as "such an event and then 2,000 years later there would be a similar" one. He imagined "the nativity scene, the thing hovering over and I could see the shepherds in the fields and this weird, ethereal music was drifting into the air and they were 'what the heck is that'?"

[@sandgrownun66]

@@CrispyCrow555 What's this thing about 2,000 years? Modern humans have been on this planet for 100,000 years. What happened in the previous 98,000 years, and what's so special about the last 2% of human existence?

[@supreme3376]

This is modern type of about of birth of Jesus

[@Andy-ix2ox]

You do realise that this is not a Christmas song? Not that it is not a great song and a great story!

[@Lord_Numpty]

It’s about the Nativity, it by definition is.

[@Andy-ix2ox]

@@Lord_Numpty I don’t quite understand your point, if you want to be pedantic you could say that it is an alternative narrative to the nativity but you are unlikely to find the Salvation Army singing it on Christmas eve while waving a bucket at passers by now are you?

[@TheMimic79]

It is a Christmas song

[@10293]

@@Andy-ix2ox Still doesn’t change that it is a Christmas song, it just isn’t about typical Christmas stuff but as it’s about the nativity, it IS a Christmas song.