Whatever the reality, the song was conceived in 1985 by The Pogues banjo player Jem Finer and MacGowan. Finer came up with ...
The recording of The Pogues' first-ever live performance of "Fairytale of New York" in 1987 has "even more spirit and spunk" ...
The new version was recorded live at Glasgow Barrowlands in December 1987, just as the original record was climbing the ...
The Pogues remain one of the most lucrative fixtures of the modern Christmas season, with their 1987 single Fairytale of New ...
The classic Pogues song, free of treacle but full of spirit, has become a favorite for listeners who prefer their holiday ...
The story of any song, not least of all one as popular or as recognisable as Fairytale of New York, is rarely ...
Kirsty MacColl continues to dominate the music industry around Christmas, with her smash hit Fairytale of New York alongside ...
The inside story of an evergreen Christmas classic, The Pogues' "Fairytale Of New York", told by the band themselves ...
What we are talking about is the “Fairytale of New York” homophobia discourse, which rears its head each year and was ...
NEARLY 40 years after it first stormed the charts, The Pogues’ Fairytale of New York remains one of the most popular ...