The xx covers 'Last Christmas' with characteristic doom, gloom

"Last Christmas," the great sad-sack holiday jam by Wham!, has been covered by countless acts since the song's release in 1984. And a good number of those interpreters -- from Jimmy Eat World to Crazy Frog to Ashley Tisdale of "High School Musical" -- did what they could to add some pep to George Michael's tale of romantic woe under the mistletoe.

By Mikael Wood

December 17, 2012