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Hozier Brings Christmas Vibes to ‘Saturday Night Live’ With Emotional Performance and Changed Lyrics to ‘Fairytale of New York’
Hozier was the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live‘s” Christmas edition Saturday night, and for his second song, the Irish ...
The Mirror20d
Heartbreak behind Fairytale of New York: Shane MacGowan 'madly in love' with Kirsty MacColl
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 ...
Irish Central25d
"Fairytale of New York" is not just a Christmas song, but also an immigrant ballad
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 ...