Musicologist Joe Bennett explains the common components of the most enduring Christmas songs, from "Jingle Bells" to "All I Want for Christmas Is You" – which inspires David Pogue to compose his own new holiday song.

There's a Christmas song for all tastes – jolly to melancholy – so corralling them into one list is not only futile, but impossible. Still, we try.

IT’S the song you can’t escape every December – blaring from radios, pubs, shops and office Christmas parties. Almost 40 years after it was released, Wham!’s “Last Christmas” remains one of

Whether or not you consider Wham!'s "Last Christmas" a gay song depends on how you see its lyrics and its creator.