“Fairytale of New York” is one of the most beautiful Christmas carols and is almost as famous as “Last Christmas”. The band’s biggest hit, The Pogues, is so coarse that it is causing controversy again.
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Shane McGowan and Kirsty MacColl re-recorded the Pogues hit (1994 recording).
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You almost think you can see the snow falling on wet Broadway when the first piano chords of “Fairytale of New York” sound. The comforting strings do the rest to underpin the Christmas mood, even before Shane MacGowan’s gently babbling vocals begin.
It’s not for nothing that the “Fairytale of New York” applies in Great Britain as the most popular Christmas carol evert. The Anglo-Irish folk punk band The Pogues paints a gloomy picture of the Christmas season.
On Christmas Eve, the first-person narrator wakes up in sobering custody and dreams of an old companion. Together they look back on the many hopes and dreams that have shattered since their arrival in the New World. Finally, the two clochards wish each other a Merry Christmas – in the hope that it will be their last.
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