John Lewis have embraced All The Small Things for this year’s Christmas advert (Picture: PA)
The John Lewis 2022 Christmas advert has landed, giving us a heartwarming story – and yet another cover version we’ll all be singing for weeks.
This year’s campaign, titled The Beginner, shines a light on care experienced children, as it follows one man’s quest to connect with a teenage girl who is being fostered by his family.
The soundtrack follows a long tradition of covers in John Lewis Christmas advs, which have ranged from Sir Elton John’s Your Song through to The Beatles’ Golden Slumbers, Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know and last year’s effort, Phil Oakey and Giorgio Moroder’s Together In Electric Dreams.
What music is featured in this year’s advert? Here’s what you need to know…
Who sings the John Lewis Christmas advert 2022?
This year’s John Lewis Christmas ad features a rendition of the pop-punk favourite All The Small Things.
The version in the advert is by American singer and actor Mike Geier, who is best known for performing as his alter ego, the melancholy clown Puddles Pity Party.
Geier, 58, has been performing in bands since the 90s – including Elvis Presley tribute band Kingsized – but sprung to prominence as Puddles in 2013, after recording a cover of Lorde’s Royals with the musical collective Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox.
Mike Geier is best known for his alter ego Puddles Pity Party (Picture: Daniel Knighton/Getty Images)
That version has had over 32million views on YouTube, with Lorde saying that it was her favourite cover of the track.
Geier has since toured across as Puddles – including playing dates in the UK, US, Australia and Belgium – as well as bringing the sad clown to the America’s Got Talent stage in 2017.
In that instance Puddles – who initially wowed the judges with a cover of Sia’s Chandelier – reached the quarter-finals, only for his cover of Royals to get the dreaded buzzer from Simon Cowell.
More recently the character has appeared in residency at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, as well as appearing in an episode of Roseanne spin-off The Conners.
Who originally sung All The Small Things?
All The Small Things was originally a hit for US pop-punk band Blink 182.
Their version of the song was released in late 1999, making it as far as number six in the US Billboard Chart and doing even better in the UK, where it soared to number two in March 2000.
The track – taken from the band’s album Enema Of The State – has sold over 1.2m copies in the UK, being certified as double platinum – while it was one of the biggest-selling singles in the US in 2000, shifting over half a million copies.
Blink 182 – featuring members Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker – have sold over 55m albums across the world, with their other hits including What’s My Age Again?, The Rock Show, I Miss You, Feeling This and Always.
Blink 182 are heading out on the road next year with their original line-up (Picture: Blink 182)
They underwent a change in line-up in recent years, with DeLonge being replaced by Alkaline Trio singer Matt Skiba – but recently announced that they were reuniting to record new music, as well as going on a world tour from March 2023 that includes UK dates in Glasgow, Belfast, Birmingham, Manchester and London.
The band’s reunion with the full line-up comes amid exciting times for its members: Travis recently married reality star Kourtney Kardashian, and Mark received the all-clear from cancer.
The bassist announced he had been diagnosed with stage four lymphoma in June 2021, and months later revealed he had been given the all-clear.
The bassist announced he had been diagnosed with stage four lymphoma in June 2021, and months later revealed he had been given the all-clear.
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