The story behind The Pogues’ Fairytale of New York and why it took two years to write

It’s the Christmas carol for people who hate Christmas carols. There’s none of the loved-up gooeyness you find in Mariah Carey‘s All I Want For Christmas Is You, and it completely dodges the dulcet tones of Michael Bublé‘s Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.  Instead, this carol aims for a raucous concoction of banjo strings…

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