Composers: Mick
Jagger & Dave Stewart
First release: Music
from the Motion Picture Alfie album, October 2004
Recording date: April-May
2004
Recording location: Abbey
Road Studios, London, England
Producers: Mick
Jagger & Dave Stewart
Chief engineer:
Steve
McLaughlin
Mixer:
Peter
Cobbin
Line-up:
Drums: Virgil
Donati
Bass: Robin Davey
Electric guitar: Dave
Stewart
Lead electric guitar: Jesse
Davey
Lead vocals: Mick
Jagger & Joss Stone
Backing vocals: Claudia
Fontaine, Beverley Skeete & Faye Simpson
Piano: Jeff Bova
Hammond B3 Organ: Jeff
Bova
Brass: The
Kick Horns
Strings
Programming: Ned
Douglas
Oh yeah
I'm going to be lonely without you
Going to be a lonely, lonely Christmas without
you
My future's looking bleak, oh so down I could
weep
It's the saddest time of the year, oh yes
it is
Oh it's going to be a lonely, lonely Christmas
without you
It's going to be a lonely, lonely Christmas
without you
(...), there's nobody waiting for me
Oh but you never know, never know what's coming
round
It's the season of good will
Oh I guess I love you still
Be a lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely,
lonely Christmas without you
TrackTalk
It started as an instrumental section. Dave was in the studio and asked me to write one line to go in a particular scene in the movie. When we got back in the studio, Joss (Stone) was there and when Dave asked me if I had written any more of the songs, I realized that it was going to turn into something she was going to sing. So I went back in the dressing room, we finished it and it worked out. It suits Joss Stone perfectly.