Look! It's Marc Bolan, and he's celebrating the arrival of Word's annual online advent calendar! Just like last year, we've scoured YouTube to find the very best in Christmas clips, and each day we'll be adding another video, right up until the 25th. It really doesn't get any more festive than that.

1. Princess Leia sings as the entire cast wish everyone in the galaxy a Star Wars Christmas.
2. The Queen's 1957 Christmas Message, broadcast for the first time via the "new medium" of television. There's a lovely bit at the end where Her Maj glances off camera and grins, obviously delighted she's made it through the ordeal in one piece.
3. Sigur Rós play I'll Get A Christmas Present, better known locally as Ég fæ jólagjöf. Remarkably, this live footage comes from the last century.
4. Ahh, the nostalgia. Ooh, the celebrities. It can only be a 25-year-old Woolworths Christmas ad.
5. Perhaps the second-most-famous shower scene in cinema history.
6. Bill Nighy lurches through a festive tribute to The Troggs, surrounded by Robert Palmer's ladyband. Someone must have thought this was a good idea.
7. Fanny Craddock stuffs her arm up a turkey. TV doesn't get any more terrifying than this.
8. Perhaps the best former-Beatle-Christmas-single ever. Which means it's not Mull of Bleedin' Kintyre.
9. Every year, about this time, Kurtis Blow celebrates, with a rhyme.
10. Ritchie Blackmore explains the Satanic origins of Christmas carols.
11. Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys with a bit of country Christmas, Texas style.
12. The best version of Jona Lewie's Stop the Cavalry you'll ever see.
13. Time to ROCK. Round Ten Benson's house they're having a black Christmas.
14. Meanwhile, George is spending his last white Christmas at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
15. Oscar the Grouch hates Christmas.
16. Snoop Dogg, Word's favourite rapper, confirms that Santa does indeed head straight for the ghetto.
17. Willie Nelson, dressed as one of the three kings, brings the infant Jesus a lot more than frankincense.
18. Christmas doesn't get any more METAL than Manowar (warning: contains breasts).
19. Xxx-mas Kitten: this may well be the weirdest Christmas song in the entire history of humankind.
20. A modern Christmas classic from the Flaming Lips: Xmas At The Zoo.
21. Leather Elvis, dressed in black, sings the blues.
22. Every year, Darlene Love appears on the Letterman Show and sings this song. We'd like to repeat the tradition here.
23. Aretha Franklin sings. Really sings.
24. Santa's laughter mocks the poor. And so say all of us.
25. And a Very Merry Christmas from all at The Word.