Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) [Top of The Pops Dec 1987]

Should have been Xmas number one

to all the casually dancing people in the audience - you met the xmas vibe head on. bless your attendance!

This is a crack, a goat, a masterpiece. Thank you. For all the goosebumps you gave and still give to me.
A love story that last only a song. Galway bay.😢😢😢

This is the perfect explanation of the life

It's too bad they weren't allowed to perform this live. Good song though.

Lip syncing

Maison fucking love you on my momma

I hate playback singing.

Love this song. But top of the pops and the lip syncing... Well times have changed. This song will live forever

Happenstance ain’t just happen. 🇨🇮🙏🏽❤️

Thank you Shane🎉

If you never done this karaoke with a pretty woman who can sing, can you really say you lived?

Love this so much

RIP you both and thanks thanks thanks ❤❤

Are they lip syncing?

Good memory of my trip to Ireland, it was in 1987. The pogues, the Dubliners,..I was a 16 year old Frenchman

Best Christmas song ever . It’s not even close.

Listening January 2025. Makes me teary ✌️RIP kristy & Shane❤️

Genauso behalte ich beide in meinem Gedächtnis!💞💞💞

I am a 63-year-old woman. Last year, in the run-up to Christmas, I heard Fairytale of New York for the first time. I didn't know The Pogues until then and thought it was a current song. I cried every time it came on the radio. I researched the group and the singer and was totally shocked that he had died on 30 November 2024 and that the band was by no means new on the market. I can't explain why this man touches me so much. My favourites are now Fairytale of New York, In the summer in Siam and Dirty Old Town. I hear he was a very likeable person. I saw an interview with Kiefer Sutherland. It's so sad that he didn't look after himself well enough. Such a great musician. RIP Shane and Kirsty

too drunk to lip sync.

I got very excited to watch this but then I remembered that Top of the Pops forced acts to lip sync 99% of the time

Using internet at age 67, adopted, discovered my real parents. I found out my father was an Irish labourer, Cafferky. Being 'English' and the bombings never liked the Irish. mmm.

So sad two of them are gone RIP

Excellent thanks to them for a beautiful rotten sons

Best Christmas song ever 💕💕💕💕🎉🎉🎉😅😅😅❤

It's THE christmas song

Those lyrics - "I' 'd could have been someone......" It's Shakespearean.

The Providence Morelli gang admitted to this crime to many contemporaries. A smart defense lawyer named Ehrmann got this evidence but no one would listen to him.

Great video, really shows off the energy of the song.

You have to wonder why Top of The Pops didn't allow the bands to actually play after they started parroting like this. He's purposely making it look like it's not live. If the bands won't play along what's the point?

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Well done Tom. Stay hard big man.

Shane hated this. " I FKN HATE IT". Shame having it at funeral. Manager worked him to exhaustion. Punks don't do what you tell us

Kirsty McCall 🙏 RIP was perfect for this song. What a voice.

I was bloody well gutted when a realy stupid song beat this to number one. One of the best christmas songs for a a long time.

Did you hear how she died? Crazy!

Not real

Fake

I think he’s lip syncing this one 😂

Merry Christmas to everyone - favorite Christmas song

When that piano starts - the old man in the drunk tank - won't see another one - always brings tears to me eyes -

He is neither playing piano nor actually singing.
Sad.

Die 80er musikalisch eine geile Zeit 🤩👏🙏

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍻🍻🍻the Actual Lyrics 🥹

I wish I belived in an afterlife. If I did heaven or hell no matter I've friends in both places, if they exist.

The best christmas song of all time.❤

One of the few versions where they don't whitewash the lyrics. Fuck the me-so-sensitive-crowd. Show it real.

Still theeeeee best MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅🏻