Serge Pizzorno on the Christmas song he'd most like to cover

23 December 2025, 09:00

Serge from Kasabian's favourite Christmas songs

The Kasabian frontman discussed all things Christmas with Radio X, including what song he'd most like to give the cover treatment.

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Serge Pizzorno revealed to Radio X that the Christmas song he'd most like to cover is Stop The Calvary by Jona Lewie.

Quizzed at Christmas 2023 by Johnny Vaughan about which festive song he'd like to rework, the Kasabian frontman mused: "It's sort of painful [to hear Christmas songs], especially now when Christmas starts really early, [...] but I'd probably go War Is Over by [John] Lennon just because... it's a bit dreary so it might need a little bit of energy, so maybe that."

However when Johnny suggested the 1980 Jona Lewie track, he replied: "You know what, change that. I'm having that. That's the one!"

Interestingly, that very song has just been covered by The Futureheads on their new album Christmas!

The Leicester rocker also took the 4 -7 Thang through his Christmas plans and revealed he'd sorted with a tree, which comes complete with lights.

He said: "The tree went up yesterday night. It all works, which is nice."

However Serge caused some controversy by revealing had an artificial tree, adding: "It was not cheap Johnny, let me tell you that mate!"

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