London • I fell in love with “Fairytale of New York,” the indelible Christmas song by the Pogues, before I’d heard a note. I grew up in the boarded-up, bombed-out Northern Ireland of the ...

Fairytale of New York ... of the song and it resonates today. IrishCentral reported, years ago, that British music body PPL officially named “Fairytale” the most played Christmas song of ...

Listening to the crazy lyrics of "Fairytale of New York" with its man and woman arguing should be enough to prove it's a bad Christmas song. As I write this I'm listening to the "Top 100 ...

The song took two years to complete after multiple rewrites and was finally released in August 1987. In the UK and Ireland, Fairytale of New York is the most-played Christmas song of the 21st ...

‘Tis the season for the least festive song of the season. Despite its cult status, The Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York” might just be the most anti-Christmas song out there. From a New York ...

But one song of his will be remembered above all others. Fairytale of New York is a bona fide Christmas classic that is currently being played in a bar, shop or home near you – although some ...

The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" is a modern-classic Christmas song, a bittersweet ode to a bright-eyed couples' love turned sour made brighter by a gorgeous arrangement that starts as a ballad ...

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“The popularity of this list's top three songs, “Fairytale of New York”, “Last Christmas”, and “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday”, as driving songs during the Christmas ...

“I just thought it would be really interesting to see what they do with a Christmas song,” recalled Murray in the BBC TV documentary The Story of Fairytale Of New York. Whatever the reality, the song ...

U.K. streams of “Fairytale of New York” crossed 9 million over the same period, reports OCC, giving the song its biggest-ever streaming total in the country outside the Christmas period.

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