Fairytale of New York

[acd80]

Hub said:

How much do you think one of these 'classic' Christmas hits that gets played every year earns them in royalties? Is Jona Lewie really well off for example?!

Apparently, Shane McGowan gets in the region of 100k per annum for his share of the royalties from FONY.

However, according to RTE (and if the royalties are split 50:50), he earned £180k from that song alone in 2013.

http://www.rte.ie/ten/news/2013/1224/494619-shane-...

He obviously doesn't spend a penny on dental insurance!

[droopsnoot]

Hub said:

How much do you think one of these 'classic' Christmas hits that gets played every year earns them in royalties? Is Jona Lewie really well off for example?!

Recent thing in the paper (well, the Express) that said Noddy Holder gets around £500k per annum in royalties for his song, though yesterday they'd updated that to £620k. Roy Wood was saying that because of downloads and piracy he doesn't get much at all for his song, though I am struggling to see how they would differ because of that.

[marcosgt]

"Last Christmas" by Wham! rules, clearly

http://www.youtube.com/embed/E8gmARGvPlI

M.

[MikeT66]

I like it - and certainly prefer it to Wham/Shakin' Stevens/latest Band Aid offerings, etc. Prefer Greg Lake's 'I Believe In Father Christmas', though.

On another note, Rob Halford's "Winter Songs" was a very pleasant surprise though - actually a great Christmas album with some surprisingly good (some very subtle, some totally OTT!) remakes of traditional and new Christmas tracks.

[Urban Sports]

It's on every hour on Radio City Liverpool, love it.

[Johnnytheboy]

Chimune said:

Watched a really interesting doc about it last year. Apparently they had it written for years but couldn't find the right voice for kirstys part, until kirsty arrived !

The version I heard is that they spent years wandering round Irish pubs looking for someone as bad as Shane.

I hate all Xmas music, but this more by far than the rest.

Oh god I agree with singlecoil again, I need a lie down.

[otolith]

Antidote to the sugar.

Also, while they're playing that, they're not playing Mariah fking Carey.

[ReallyReallyGood]

The ReallyGood household has Smooth Christmas tuned in to digital radio, Christmas songs 24hrs a day. Loving it. FoNY is massively overrated.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

RobinOakapple said:

Shane McGowan is full of st, in my humble opinion, and FoNY is a terrible song. It amazes me that anyone likes it, but they do so maybe they can hear something I can't?

Agreed. Loved Kirstie McColl but that was the worst thing she ever did. Complete dirge.

[bennyboydurham]

Playing it in 12 seconds...

[rehab71]

Ozone said:

singlecoil said:

Nearly everybody loves it. I hate it.

I thought it was just me.

I don't find a song about 2 drunks slagging each other off Christmassy (sp) at all.

Have a third! I fking hate it!

[gtidriver]

And another, I also hate this song, fking depressive.