Entertainment Briefs: The Pogues Named As Most-Played Christmas Song

When the Pogues lost out on the 1987 Christmas Number 1 to the Pet Shop Boys, Shane MacGowan ungraciously said they’d been ‘beaten by two queens and a drum machine’.

Now, however, the punk band has a reason to celebrate.

Fairytale of New York has been named the most-played Christmas song of the century, in shops, offices, radio and more recently TV.

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