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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 ...
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.
“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.
Hozier was the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live’s” Christmas edition Saturday night, and for his second song, the Irish artist paid tribute to the Pogues’ classic “Fairytale of New ...
"A Rainy Night in Soho" is a song by The Pogues released in 1986, originally included on their Poguetry in Motion EP. Two recordings and various mixes of the song were made in the studio. Songwriter Shane MacGowan and producer Elvis Costello clashed over the final mix of the song, with MacGowan preferring a mix featuring a cornet , and Costello ...
As the stars aligned, “Fairytale” became the Pogues’ biggest hit in December 1987, boosted in part by the BBC airing a censored version of the song’s obscene lyrics, a controversy that ...
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 Keith Richards (left) and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. The Pogues collaborated with Steve Earle on the track "Johnny Come Lately" on Earle's album Copperhead Road.
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.