This story outlines how the Pogues unlikely Christmas hit "Fairytale of New York" came to be. 

"He calls her a slut and a junkie, she calls him a punk and a maggot... and there’s an underlying, albeit dark humour through it all. As it closes the chorus each time, you can picture the two characters staggering around the city, screeching at each other."

Fairytale of New York: How The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl made the classic Christmas song