Of all my favourite artists, and there are many, one that hasn't to date been a STAR TRACK is R.E.M. Deliberately sounding like the Beach Boys, with a video portraying Christmas scenes and lights, on their song 'At My Most Beautiful' - sub-captioned on YouTube: in pictures.

And while on the subject of pictures....
HISTORIC NOTE >>> 50 years ago today Apollo 8* blasted off from Cape Kennedy into outer space. Three days later the crew witnessed and photographed an Earthrise and we all saw our beautiful planet. So I dedicate todays track to the one and only Planet Earth.

*James Lovell was part of that crew that only orbited the Moon. Five missions later he commanded the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission and missed out on walking on the Moon.