The song, which was released in 1987 by the British band The Pogues and featured singer Kirsty MacColl, tells a tragic tale of a couple ... brain swelling. Fairytale of New York came out when ...

The song — taking its title from J.P. Donleavy’s 1973 novel “A Fairy Tale of New York,” which Finer was reading at the time — was first recorded in January 1986, with the Pogues’ then ...

More than a million votes were cast and The Pogues' Fairy Tale of New York was eventually declared the winner. Richard held the competition over several days on Twitter. All the Crimbo classics ...