“Fairytale Of New York” was released by The Pogues in 1987. According to The Telegraph, it is the most played Christmas song of the century. It took two years for Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan to finish writing the song. “Every night I used to have another bash at nailing the lyrics, but I knew they weren’t right,” McGowan told Nine. “It is by far the most complicated song that I have ever been involved in writing and performing. The beauty of it is that it sounds really simple.”
When it came to the singers in the song, singer and songwriter Kirsty MacColl was chosen to perform alongside frontman Shane McGowan. Steve Lillywhite, who produced the final version of the song, said, “To be honest, they weren’t 100 per cent convinced that Kirsty was the right person. I spent a whole day on Kirsty’s vocals. I made sure every single word had exactly the right nuance. I remember taking it in on Monday morning and playing it to the band – and they were just dumbfounded.”
However, McGowan loved her from the start. “I was madly in love with Kirsty from the first time I saw her on Top of the Pops,” he said. “She was a genius in her own right, and she was a better producer than he was! She could make a song her own, and she made Fairytale her own.”
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Despite its popularity, the song has never reached the No. 1 spot in the US or UK. However, Spider Stacy told NME, “It doesn’t need it. ‘Fairytale of New York’ not being Number One is a bit like how neither [acclaimed footballers] Johan Cruyff nor George Best won a World Cup!”
The Pogues had a few more hits over the years, including “Dirty Old Town,” “A Pair of Brown Eyes,” and “A Rainy Night in Soho.” The band also received a lifetime achievement award at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards in 2006.
Unfortunately, MacGowan died in 2023 at the age of 65. The surviving members of The Pogues went on tour after this time.
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