RIP Shane MacGowan

Again sad news with an air of inevitability.
Agreed best Christmas song and so glad I saw them at their peak in about 86 or 87 at king George's in Blackburn and at Glastonbury
Chaotic ,pissed up folks punk thing .

Brilliant lyricist and massive appetite
 
My wife was having a C-section nearly 4 years ago with my youngest and I was sat with her and they had the radio on really loud in the operating theatre and as they cut my wife and lifted my daughter out towards me and the wife Fairy Tale of New York had started playing on the radio, so we always say its our Ruby’s birth song.

RIP Shane
 
Henry Kissinger and Alistair Darling too. Bit of a middle order collapse once Shane's crazy innings finally came to a close. Controversial century from Kissinger.
 
The radio stations don't play fairytale anymore because of the wokies complaints about the language used.

It's a brilliant song and a sad loss now Shane is no longer with us.

RIP😔
 
RIP Shane, the original version will be sung in Heaven this Christmas as he meets up with Kirsty

IMHO, simply the best, sweetest, hardest, poignant Christmas song to which we can all relate.

Dirty Old Town was written by Kirsty's dad, I always associated it with the Spinners, the first group I ever saw as a kid, anyone remember Fylde Folk Week, early 70"s?

Grew up in Kent surprised me. A tortured poet who lived life to the full, who kept heritage folk in the Punk Era.
 
Great artist, best Christmas song without a doubt, as others have said his lifestyle did for him and Fairytale is now nailed on number 1
 
I would have thought discussing death would fit right in with the mood on AVFTT.....may even cheer a few up.

RIP Shane, luckily got to see him and the Pouges in 85 before the booze took him..........Think he played right back for us in 2006
 
I heard the sanitised version on Craig Charles yesterday afternoon. Even he commented on it, there are quite a few changes. Didn't stop me belting out the original, though
 
Tangerinemoss said:
RIP Shane, the original version will be sung in Heaven this Christmas as he meets up with Kirsty

IMHO, simply the best, sweetest, hardest, poignant Christmas song to which we can all relate.

Dirty Old Town was written by Kirsty's dad, I always associated it with the Spinners, the first group I ever saw as a kid, anyone remember Fylde Folk Week, early 70"s?

Grew up in Kent surprised me. A tortured poet who lived life to the full, who kept heritage folk in the Punk Era.
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and didnt Kirsty meet a dreadful end. sad
 
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