It's this time of year when all sides begin to bombard us Christmas. Shop Windows, decorations on the houses and… Christmas songs played on the station radjiowej.

I do not know whether in Poland on the radio now reigns with his Wham “Last Christmas” and another part of the three-way Lyrics “Friends of the Carp”? But I know, Wham that here the palm gives the song by The Pogues “Fairytale of New York”. Probably everyone has heard this song at least once in your life. Catchy and damage, that is not very popular in Poland.

The song was written by Irish rock band The Pogues, released in 1987 years, in a song you can hear the voice of the British singer Kirsty MacColl. “Fairytale of New York” was written by Jem Finer and Shanea MacGowan and placed on the album “If I Should Fall From Grace with God”.

The song tells the story of loneliness during the holidays, the times, when the main character (McGowan) be happy, when everything was great. All… do momentu, when alcohol and drugs spoil the idyll, when, instead of conversations between lovers are just bickering and insults. Theme song is very dołujący. So hard for me to understand how such “severe” Christmas songs can be a hit.

With this song is also connected with a story, quite Świerz. On 18 December 2007, BBC Radio 1 ocenzurowało song and cut out of the words “faggot” (Now the word fagot means the offensive pedal, once by Mitch Benn, oznaczło comedian lazy person and Liverpool's Irish slang) i “end” (Well, it's simple with this word, is simply a slut slut) , to students do not feel offended by the words of songs. The band found this treatment to be funny, and the students themselves felt offended by the fact, that their favorite song was censored. Since the decision to censored “Fairytale of New York” sparked outrage around the world so great, that the station the same day withdrew its previous decision.

And after that everything was back to normal and we can ndal entirely radios to listen to our songs “Fairytale of New York”.

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