Talk:Fairytale of New York
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[edit] What it's about
listen to "Fairytale Of New York" when you're sober- it's about Alcholism Not Emigration Lion King 00:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
- How about fixing the article yourself? I try to avoid getting sober unless absolutely necessary. Kappa 01:16, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
- I'd love to fix the article,but i'm off up the boozer Mate! Lion King 11:32, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Page location
Since the article on the book now resides at A Fairy Tale of New York (and in any case is less well known than the song) I'd be in favour of moving this article in place of the disambiguation page at Fairytale of New York. A disambig line could be put in place at the top of both pages, to avoid any confusion. Anyone have any comments about this? └ UkPaolo/TALK┐ 19:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
- Sounds like a good idea to me. Angmering 15:23, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
- Since there's been plenty of time since my above message, and no objections, I've now moved the article on the song to replace the dab page at Fairytale of New York and added a disambig line to the book. I trust everyone's OK with this! └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 16:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- I've also updated links to this article, so as to avoid the redirect that would otherwise have been introduced. └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 16:43, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] infobox
I've added an infobox to the article, but there's a fair bit of information which I didn't know still to add └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 08:33, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] best christmas song
If this is't the world best christmas song in the english world, I ask you who else?
There no christmas in our house without this song! --Liam 10:13, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Moved here from article
[edit] Trivia
- Despite the lyrics "The boys of the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay", the New York Police Department does not have a choir, though they do have a Pipes and Drums unit that is featured in the video for the song. According to the BBC documentary "Fairytale of New York" the band didn't know the words to "Galway Bay" and sang the Mickey Mouse Song instead, although you can't tell in the video.
- The song's music video features actor Matt Dillon playing a policeman. Dillon claims that the part was the best moment of his career.[1]
- MacGowan cannot play the piano, but in the video (at the urging of record company executives) James Fearnley reluctantly wore MacGowan's jacket and rings [2].
- The song was referenced in the song "Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night" on the album Separation Sunday by the Hold Steady. (They faked their way through "Fairytale of New York"/When the band stopped playing we howled out for more).
- The first Christmas strip of the popular webcomic Megatokyo featured two of the characters singing the song at a karaoke bar, while the other characters looked on drunkenly.
- One issue of Preacher by Irish author Garth Ennis is titled "Fairytale of New York." The issue takes place in New York City around Christmas time.
- Is the favourite Christmas song of Cliff Richard, Jack McMorrow, Matt Dillon, Dermot O'Leary, Pete Doherty, Ricky Olarenshaw, Carl Barat, Bob Geldof, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Chris Moyles, Tim Hames, Sue Johnstone, Chris Martin (who went as far as to say that if he could have written any song, "Fairytale of New York" would have been it) and The Office creators, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, with Gervais even going as far to say, when covering Jonathan Ross' BBC Radio 2 show on Christmas Eve 2005; "The best Christmas Song ever and one of the best songs ever - it's just brilliant".
Why has this been removed from the article? Icecold (talk) 02:15, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
