“Fairytale of New York” is a drunken hymn for people with broken dreams and abandoned hopes. It is, therefore, a perfect contrast to some of the perkier perennial favourites we wheel out each ...

Singers Kirsty MacColl (1959 - 2000) and Shane MacGowan with with toy guns and an inflatable Santa in a festive scenario, circa 1987. In 1987, the pair collaborated on the Pogues' Christmas song ...

While some of our favorite '80s singers fade from memory, there isn't a year that we don't think about Kirsty MacColl thanks to her co-singing on Fairytale of New York (with The Pogues), which is ...

Shane MacGowan's death today follows years of ill health, his mother dying in a car crash and the tragic passing of fellow singer Kirsty MacColl in a speedboat accident aged 41. The legendary Pogues ...

The Pogues official social media account said: “This is something special. The first time that Fairytale Of New York was ever played live, the night that Kirsty MacColl put her stagefright behind her, ...

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LONDON — British singer and songwriter Kirsty MacColl has died after being struck by a speedboat while swimming in Mexico, her management announced Tuesday. She was 41. MacColl was swimming with her ...

Regarded for his wrenching, joyful lyricism as a bard of all things Irish, Shane MacGowan – the singer-songwriter known mostly for his work as frontman of the Celtic punk phenomenon the Pogues – was ...

December 19 -- British singer Kirsty MacColl died Monday in Cozumel, Mexico, apparently struck by a speedboat in an area reserved for swimmers. She was 41. Her management released a statement this ...

Once upon a time—hard times, as it were—in an unrelenting, kick-you-when-you’re-down New York City, a real-life couple were struggling and fighting and having a thoroughly shit time. According to ...