Stay Another Day Stay Another Day "Stay Another Day" is a 1994 pop song recorded by British boy band East 17. It was released in late 1994 and became their only number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the Christmas number one of 1994, and also topped the charts in Sweden, Ireland and Denmark. It remains their biggest hit. The song was used in the pilot episode of the BBC drama series "Dirk Gently". "Stay Another Day" was the third single from East 17's second album "Steam", following up "Around The World" and the album's title track. It was their first ballad,
Stay Another Day written by the band's lead songwriter Tony Mortimer and is about his brother Ollie, who had 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. Christmas bells were included towards the end of the song to appeal to the lucrative Christmas singles market. The most familiar arrangement is unusual among pop records in that it uses almost no drums, apart from some timpani during the introduction and towards the end of the track. Two music videos were made for the song. One video features