Once upon a time a band set out to make a Christmas song. Not about snow or sleigh rides or mistletoe or miracles, but lost youth and ruined dreams. A song in which Christmas is as much the problem as it is the solution. A kind of anti-Christmas song that ended up being, for a generation, the Christmas song. With the recording of “Fairytale of New York”, The Pogues and Kirsti MacColl (1959-2000) created a modern Christmas Classic