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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 ...
The band remained stable enough to record If I Should Fall from Grace with God with its Christmas hit duet with Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale of New York". "Fairytale of New York" was released as a single in 1987 and reached No. 1 in the Irish charts and No. 2 in the British charts over Christmas (the time of peak sales).
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.
Kirsty MacColl and Shane MacGowan in the video for "Fairytale of New York," 1987. (YouTube) “Hope springs eternal on one of the unlikeliest classic Christmas songs ever,” Annie Zaleski wrote ...
Fairytale of New York" is a 1987 song by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl. Fairytale of New York may also refer to: A Fairy Tale of New York, 1973 J. P. Donleavy novel; Between Two Ferns: A Fairytale of New York, a 2012 television special "The Fairytale of New York", a nickname for tennis player Emma Raducanu's record-breaking run at the 2021 US Open
Between 1985 and 1987, MacGowan co-wrote "Fairytale of New York", which he performed with Kirsty MacColl, and remains a perennial Christmas favourite; in 2004, 2005 and 2006, it was voted favourite Christmas song in a poll by music video channel VH1. [19]
A Fairy Tale of New York is a novel by Irish American writer J. P. Donleavy, published in 1973. The plot concerns Irish-American Cornelius Christian's return to New York after studying in Ireland . The novel was based on Donleavy's earlier work Fairy Tales of New York , a successful stage play published in 1961.
Kirsty Anna MacColl (/ m ə ˈ k ɔː l /, mə-KAWL; 10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) was a British singer-songwriter, daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl.She recorded several pop hits in the 1980s and 1990s, including "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" and cover versions of Billy Bragg's "A New England" and the Kinks' "Days".