The Pogues’ Shane MacGowan on what he really thinks of Fairytale of New York

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Johnny Depp and feelings on editing the lyrics of Fairytle Of New York.Long and sometimes excruciating. It was a good laugh having screaming matches with Julien Temple but I’m used to that.I don’t hate Fairytale!

I am just a bit sick of it. I think it’s ridiculous. It was pink speed, not acid. But it was very, very trippy. I often carried a paint box, I painted a lot.

Loads. There was a DMT trip when I met the devil – that was frightening. I told him he was a smelly, horrible bastard and I didn’t want anything to do with him.

I invoked Our Lady and the saints and the Holy Ghost. He tempted me with getting my dead family back. Don’t experiment with DMT and stuff like that, even I couldn’t handle it.