![]() And I have to say, we went out on a high note. Our week-long M-M-Maxathon concluded on Satuday night at the Jean Cocteau with a staged table reading of "Xmas," my thirty-year-old unproduced (until now) MAX HEADROOM script. Martin! He wrote about it on his blog in 2017: Wait, a Christmas special too? OMG hahaha, I wasn't ready:īury the lede bonus: Oh, and there was another Christmas (unproduced) special and it was written by George R.R. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not long after the success of "Paranoimia," Max Headroom did a holiday special in the U.K., MAX HEADROOM'S GIANT CHRISTMAS TURKEY, and from that special, a limited edition 7" holiday single was commissioned and was released on Chrysalis records: "Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You're A Lovely Guy)." Really puts you in the holiday spirit, don't it?ġ986 was a big year for Max (and Matt ) – they already scored an international hit with "Paranoimia" (with The Art Of Noise), there was a British cult TV show called THE MAX HEADROOM SHOW in its third and final season, and they were on the verge of an American drama series, MAX HEADROOM, which started in the Spring of 1987 – and Coca-Cola commercials somewhere inbetween. When he bestrides the world like a huge co-co-co-colostomy ![]() Take his 1986 song "Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You're A Lovely Guy)," for instance. Max Headroom is certainly one of the strangest things to come out of the eighties. ![]()
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