BBC 'refuses to play live version of Fairytale of New York' as track starts fresh bid for Christmas number one - The hit ...
Nearly 40 years after it first stormed the charts, The Pogues’ Fairytale of New York remains one of the most popular ...
When the Pogues’ Christmas song Fairytale of New York was released in 1987, it solidified the band’s status in rock and roll history. And nearly forty years later, the song is still as well-known as ...
NEARLY 40 years after it first stormed the charts, The Pogues’ Fairytale of New York remains one of the most popular ...
From heartfelt tribute and folk storytelling to laugh-out-loud comedy, powerful theatre and nights of pure musical nostalgia, ...
The story of any song, not least of all one as popular or as recognisable as Fairytale of New York, is rarely ...
Everything that encapsulates Christmas is presented in the slurred, poetic ramble of The Pogues' lead singer Shane MacGowan, ...
When are The Pogues not The Pogues? That’s the question plaguing Jem Finer, one of the Irish folk-punk band’s founding members, as he strides around Hampstead Heath, his little dog Bonzo trotting on ...
Shane MacGowan lived the kind of life that didn't just inspire music - it bled into it. Wild, poetic, fragile, defiant and ...
Bob Dylan's cover of The Pogues' classic "A Rainy Night in Soho" has won the approval of those closest to Shane MacGowan, who died in November 2023. Dylan took to the piano for the well-received cover ...
Some moments are so profound you are stopped in your tracks and all the surrounding circumstances become forever etched in your soul. I’m sure it’s happened to you. People of a certain age remember ...