“Fairytale of New York” is a duet between MacGowan and the ... Finer’s music matches the complexity of the lyrics by using suspended chords and a switch to a minor key in the chorus ...

Hozier returned to Saturday Night Live for the show’s final episode of 2024, where he performed a cover of The Pogues’ classic Christmas song, “Fairytale of New York”. Fans praised the ...

So too was its musical structure. Like all great pop songs, Fairytale Of New York has very few chords, in this case just D, A, G, Bmin and an Asus4. Want all the hottest music and gear news, reviews, ...

Fans of The Pogues had hoped Shane MacGowan’s festive hit “Fairytale of New York” will become a No.1 in time for Christmas, following the musician’s death on 30 November. However ...

He wrote from London. I fell in love with “Fairytale of New York,” the indelible Christmas song by the Pogues, before I’d heard a note. I grew up in the boarded-up, bombed-out Northern ...

Fairytale of New York brings you all of your favourite Christmas songs, including Driving Home for Christmas, White Christmas, Oh Holy Night, A Winter's Tale, Silent Night and of course The ...

“Fairytale of New York” is a drunken hymn for people with ... bitter delivery of those opening vocals is played out over romanticised piano chords. Then to those wonderful, jaunty strings ...

Have you ever heard a better opening to a song than that one, from “Fairytale of New York” by MacGowan’s Irish folk-punk band, the Pogues? In just four lines, he’s drawn an indelible scene ...

Among a catalogue of raucous hits, The Pogues' 1987 Christmas melody Fairytale of New York struck a chord with the public and cemented the band's place in rock and roll history. The irreverent ...

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 ...