Fans remember Kirsty MacColl on 23rd anniversary of her death
“One day I’ll be waiting there, no empty bench in Soho Square.” Fans are sharing tributes to Kirsty MacColl on the 23rd anniversary of her death. The ‘Fairytale of New York’ singer, who sang alongside the recently passed Shane MacGowan on the number one Christmas hit, died in 2000, aged 41, after a shocking accident […]
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‘Fairytale of New York’: Inside the disputed origins of classic Pogues song
It could have been a very different song. In wake of the passing of legendary Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, there is already a large push to make the iconic ‘Fairytale of New York’ a Christmas number 1 once again. The song is, of course, the very distilled essence of MacGowan’s career – a heartfelt, heartbreaking, […]
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