“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...