Talk:Fairytale of New York

message: listen to "Fairytale Of New York" when you're sober- it's about Alcholism Not Emigration Lion King 00:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: What it's about

message: 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)
replies: text: Sounds like a good idea to me. Angmering 15:23, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

text: 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)

text: 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)
thread_title: Page location

message: 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)
thread_title: Infobox

message: ===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.
* 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 .
*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)
thread_title:  Moved here from article 

message: * 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.
* 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 .
*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)
thread_title: Trivia

message: There's no chart info outside of the UK. Was this a hit at all in the US? Are they aware of the song?--Tuzapicabit (talk) 10:14, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The song got airplay on college radio when it was first released, but never charted here in the USA -- Foetusized (talk) 18:57, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

text: It's 2022 and we are still not aware of this song in the US. Sounds like a real downer, wonder why it's such a UK Christmas favorite. 2600:1700:7C50:B2C0:E1BD:800:9970:C10A (talk) 16:57, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charts 

message: One bit of the article says the title was chosen after the song had been recorded, another says MacGowan settled on the title back in 1985.  Does anyone know which is correct? MFlet1 (talk) 11:45, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  which bit of the article says the title was chosen after the song was recorded? I am responsible for writing most of this version of the article, so I will check my sources and try and sort it out if there is a conflict. Richard3120 (talk) 18:16, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It's the last sentence of the "Composition" section.  Thanks -  MFlet1 (talk) 15:01, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Cheers, you are absolutely right - that and the 'Legacy' section were the only two I didn't alter, which is why it slipped past me! I'll go through the whole article when I have time and check it properly... for starters I can see one factual error that I've made. Thanks. Richard3120 (talk) 20:16, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Should be fixed now. Richard3120 (talk) 16:42, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Song title 

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message: Reference to Mitch Benn was removed in 989728936 with no explanation, and too many lines have changed in this one commit
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:I think there is a point to the removal, though... it's a personal opinion expressed on a personal podcast, so it's not an independent source. It hasn't been reported anywhere else, and there's no proof that Benn's explanation is true. Richard3120 (talk) 16:56, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
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message: The list of chart positions from every annual appearance of the song is now getting rather long. Is it worth having one section listing the chart peaks from its original release, then another one showing the peaks for the entire download/streaming era (i.e. since 2005)? Something similar has already been done with "All I Want For Christmas is You". Mark and inwardly digest (talk) 17:55, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a good idea. The section isn't too unmanageable at this point, but it's only gonna keep getting bigger each year. Since Christmas fell on a Monday this year, chances are it will still chart next Friday, so I'll leave it until the beginning of January to make these changes, unless someone else wants to. Only modification I'd make to the above is to still retain the individual chart positions for each physical reissue (1980s, 90s, 2005 and 2012), and combine everything else. Homeostasis07 (talk/contributions) 19:52, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chart history