FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK is 25!

**Fri Nov 14, 2014 9:58 pm**

Welshie wrote:Right then all! Its November the 14th 2014.
I saw an advert for a Christmas Album on TV last night: There was a few bars of Fairytale on it, sooooo whose going to be the first to hear it on radio/tv being played as a Christmas song? When you do how about letting us know on here?
Cheers
Welshie aka as Aled

Good idea Welshie................

http://pogues.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=10441

**Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:55 am**

OOPs it would appear there may be another thread on this, sorry Father, .....But i can't seem to get to the thread the link doesnt work.....could you give me a bit more please.
Cheers
Aled

**Mon Nov 17, 2014 4:01 pm**

Board Index - In The Media - First Fairytale Of The Season.

**Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:20 am**

Welshie wrote:OOPs it would appear there may be another thread on this, sorry Father, .....But i can't seem to get to the thread the link doesnt work.....could you give me a bit more please.

In what way does that link not work? Please be descriptive.

**Wed Nov 19, 2014 4:10 pm**

Thanks you star Fr Mcgreer

**Fri Nov 28, 2014 10:15 am**

I always understood the song was named after the book that Shane's father was reading (or one of his favourite books).

Reading the Wikipedia entry though it suggests it was Jem who was reading it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairytale_of_New_York

I suppose both could be correct.

**Sat Nov 29, 2014 12:02 am**

So......that means that Jem is Shane's father then?

**Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:40 am**

soulfinger wrote:So......that means that Jem is Shane's father then?

Wasn't that Darth Vader?

**Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:09 pm**

http://ift.tt/1QiRzuX

**Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:17 pm**

feliks wrote:The tragi-comic tale of love gone sour and shattered dreams eloquently depicted in the Christmas classic Fairytale of New York is the focus of this edition of Soul Music. James Fearnley, pianist with The Pogues recounts how the song started off as a transatlantic love story between an Irish seafarer missing his girl at Christmas before becoming the bittersweet reminiscences of the Irish immigrant down on his luck in the Big Apple, attempting to win back the woman he wooed with promises of 'cars big as bars and rivers of gold'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s9d1h

**Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:41 pm**

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**Wed Dec 08, 2021 9:31 am**

hi. does anyone have the official sheet music to this? in particular the instrumental irish tin whistle part and when they join in with the singing? thanks

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