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"Fairytale of New York" is a song written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan and recorded by their London-based band the Pogues, featuring English singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl on vocals. The song is an Irish folk -style ballad and was written as a duet, with the Pogues' singer MacGowan taking the role of the male character and MacColl playing ...
Jem Finer co-wrote the band's highest-charting single, "Fairytale of New York". Spider Stacy wrote the song "Jack's Heroes", a tribute to the Republic of Ireland national football team. The band recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "When the Ship Comes In" on their final studio album. The Pogues covered the song "Honky Tonk Women", written by ...
If I Should Fall from Grace with God is the third studio album by Celtic folk-punk band the Pogues, released on 18 January 1988. [1] Released in the wake of their biggest hit single, "Fairytale of New York", If I Should Fall from Grace with God also became the band's best-selling album, peaking at number three on the UK Albums Chart and reaching the top ten in several other countries.
“Gorgeous version of ‘Fairytale of New York’ by Hozier & backup singers that did Shane MacGowan & Kirsty MacColl proud,” wrote Sinead O’Brien on X. “In honor of the delicate changes, I ...
Hozier returned to Saturday Night Live for the show’s final episode of 2024, where he performed a cover of The Pogues’ classic Christmas song, “Fairytale of New York”.. Fans praised the ...
“Fairytale of New York” is now the odds-on favorite to be this year’s U.K. “Christmas No. 1” — an annual, much-hyped chart coup across the pond — in the wake of MacGowan’s death.
The Pogues' most commercially successful song, "Fairytale of New York" from If I Should Fall from Grace with God, was written as a duet for O'Riordan and MacGowan, but the band eventually recorded it with Kirsty MacColl singing the female part. O'Riordan and Costello are mentioned in the lyrics to "Fiesta" from If I Should Fall from Grace with God.
Shane MacGowan, the singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of Celtic punk band the Pogues who found success with the 1987 song “Fairytale of New York,” died on Thursday. He was 65.