The Pogues have released the first ever live performance of Fairytale Of New York from Glasgow Barrowland in 1987, featuring Kirsty MacColl’s debut duet and restored by Steve Lillywhite for a new ...
In 2016, George Michael died on Christmas Day, just as Wham!’s wistful “Last Christmas” was chiming on seemingly every radio station and at every holiday party. Now the voice of another beloved — if ...
NPR's Scott Simon explains why The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" is a holiday song for those who have troubles and ...
Kirsty MacColl and Shane MacGowan collaborated on the Pogues' Christmas song Fairytale of New York - Tim Roney/Getty Images It’s a song about alcoholism and a darkly dysfunctional marriage, it’s ...
According to Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan — the Irish icon who died at 65 early Thursday — the story behind his band’s Christmas-in-the-drunk-tank classic “Fairytale of New York” began with Elvis ...
The singer, who died a week before Christmas in 2000, was surfacing from a scuba dive off the coast of Mexico when she was ...
‘You scumbag, you maggot’: For broken romantics, nothing says Christmas like ‘Fairytale of New York’
Have you ever heard a better opening to a song than that one, from “Fairytale of New York” by MacGowan’s Irish folk-punk band, the Pogues? In just four lines, he’s drawn an indelible scene with ...
This morning, November 30, news broke that The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has died at 65 years old. The iconic Irish rocker’s wife, Victoria Clarke, confirmed his passing on Instagram, and The ...
Shane MacGowan onstage with the Pogues in 1986. Paul Natkin/Getty Images Shane MacGowan, The Pogues founder and singer-songwriter who in the 1980s melded Irish musical traditions with the ferocious ...
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Kirsty MacColl's son opens up about Fairytale of New York singer's tragic speedboat death 25 years on
Louis Lillywhite has spoken about his mother Kirsty MacColl's tragic death in a speedboat accident in Mexico on December 18, ...
The Pogues' iconic Christmas song "Fairytale of New York" is now the odds-on favorite to achieve Christmas Number One in the UK amid lead singer Shane MacGowan's recovery from a lengthy period in ...
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EXCLUSIVE: 'Mum's tragic speedboat death gives me flashbacks 25 years on' says Kirsty MacColl's son
On the 25th anniversary of her death in a horrific speedboat accident, Kirsty MacColl's son Louis remembers his mum ...
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