Controversy has surrounded the Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" for decades, and songwriter Shane MacGowan said that was the ...

SNL musical guest Hozier closed the season with his hit "Too Sweet" and a cover of The Pogues‘ "Fairytale of New York" on the ...

The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" is a modern-classic Christmas song, a bittersweet ode to a bright-eyed couples' love ...

A special performance from Saturday Night Live's Christmas episode. Hozier Covers The Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York” on SNL: ...

Hozier was the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live‘s” Christmas edition Saturday night, and for his second song, the Irish ...

MacGowan named the song after the JP Donleavy's 1973 novel A Fairy Tale of New York, which Finer was reading at the time and had left lying around the recording studio. The book told tha story of ...

Kirsty MacColl tragically died while trying to save her son's life. The Fairytale of New York songstress was just 41 when she had been holidaying with her two sons, Louis and Jamie, and her ...

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Kirsty sang on a number of tracks produced by Lillywhite while they were married, most notably the song she’s best known for — Fairytale Of New York. Kirsty died in a scuba diving accident off ...

Fairytale of New York is more than just a holiday ditty it has the power to bring grown Irish immigrants to tears. Back in 2011, I was interviewed by BBC radio as part of a retrospective on the ...

The Irish singer makes his second SNL appearance showcasing his 2024 standout track and covering an '80s Christmas classic ...