"Stay Another Day" is a 1994 pop song recorded by East 17. It was released in late 1994 and became their first number-one single, reaching the top of the charts in UK, Sweden and Ireland. "Stay Another Day" was the second single from East 17's second album Steam. It was their first ballad, written by the band's lead singer Tony Mortimer about his brother Ollie, who committed suicide. Mortimer was aided in the composition by his co-manager Rob Kean and songwriter Dominic Hawken, who had once been Boy George's keyboard player. "Stay Another Day" included Christmas bells towards the end of the song to give it a Christmassy feel and appeal to the lucrative Christmas singles market. The most familiar arrangement is unusual among pop records in that it features almost no drums, apart from some timpani toward the end of the track.
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