The Pogues’ “Fairytale ... chords on a piano as he and Doherty trade off the rare complimentary lyrics MacGowan and MacColl sang to each other: “You were handsome/You were pretty/Queen of ...

Since November 1987, when the Pogues released “Fairytale of New York,” it’s been a recurring ... complexity of the lyrics by using suspended chords and a switch to a minor key in the ...

The Pogues' great achievement was to successfully bring together traditional foot-stomping Irish music with the crashing chords of ... the MacGowan-penned Fairytale of New York which made number ...