Poor Christmas is an unidentified synth-rock song recorded from a German radio station in October 1987. The recording and subsequent push to find the artist behind the track was done by René M (AKA DeDiniDevil/MellieTerry).

HISTORY

In October 1987, René M recorded the song from a German radio broadcast onto cassette. The identity of the station is not known, but possible candidates include HR 3 (Hessen 3), Radio FFN and NDR 2.

René has claimed that the song was potentially titled "Poor Christmas" or "Your Christmas" and performed by a band whose name was something like "The Face", "The Grace", or "The Faith".

In the early 2000s, René created a website under the username DeDiniDevil. The site featured a "wanted" section dedicated to identifying unknown songs from his collection. "Poor Christmas" likely appeared on this site around 2001.

On 16 September 2007, a user called René R (not OP) posted the song onto SpiritofRadio.ca. He claimed that he had been looking for over 3 years, but the post remained inactive.

On 31 March 2015, OP uploaded the song to YouTube.

On 25 November 2021, OP uploaded a new transfer of the original recording.

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