You may not know that the singer of a very popular Christmas classic was from Croydon. Born in 1959, singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl was raised in Croydon before achieving global recognition with ...

IRELAND’S TOP TEN SINGLES, DECEMBER 25, 1987 1 Fairytale Of New York The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl 2 Always On My Mind Pet Shop Boys 3 Let’s Wash Our Socks For Christmas Junkbox Band 9 Heaven ...

Hozier returned to Saturday Night Live for the show’s final episode of 2024, where he performed a cover of The Pogues’ classic Christmas song, “Fairytale of New York ... to MacGowan and the late ...

Hozier returned to Saturday Night Live for the show’s final episode of 2024, where he performed a cover of The Pogues’ classic Christmas song, “Fairytale of New York”. Fans praised the ...

While most people recognise Christmas by the last-minute shopping frenzy or snowflakes gently falling, for me and many others, it's signalled by finding ourselves at the end of an eye-rolling argument ...

Shane defended using the term, stating it was spoken by the "character" played by Kirsty MacColl ... With all this in mind, the Fairytale of New York controversy could be resolved with one ...

Born in 1959, singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl was raised in Croydon before achieving global recognition with the Irish Christmas classic “Fairytale of New York”. She was the daughter of folk singer ...