Random music news for Monday, April 15, 2024
Here’s a site where you can leave a phone message for anyone on the planet. And here’s music news for April 15, 2024. More music news? Look here. BONUS: Here’s Frank Sinatra at
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Pogues
The Real Story Behind The Pogues’ Christmas Classic, “Fairytale of New York”
One of the most beloved modern Christmas songs of all time is “Fairytale of New York” from the Pogues with a guest appearance from the late Kirsty MacColl–even though it’s really not about Christmas at all.
The song was born sometime in 1985 when Jem Finer, the Pogues’ banjo player, started messing about with an idea. He showed it to singer Shane McGowan who like it but didn’t really know what to do with it.
For the next two years, Jem and Shane struggled with the song. Coming up with the lyrics was especially difficult. The original idea was to tell the story of a sailor heading to distant seas, but that didn’t work. The song was abandoned.
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What if “All I Want for Christmas is You” were sung in the style of “Fairytale of New York?”
A weird thought experiment, no? Here are the results as presented by Brittlestar.
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Dublin lined the streets for Shane MacGowan’s funeral procession. Plus a couple of Shane’s favourite cocktail receipts (DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!)
Shane MacGowan got a right Irish sendoff with his funeral procession as people lined the streets of Dublin to pay their final respects. At one point, the crowd broke into a rendition of
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RIP Pogues Singer Shane MacGowan. His body finally gave out.
Years ago, I drew the assignment of introducing The Pogues from the stage at the old Concert Hall in Toronto. The band was late coming on because no one could locate singer Shane
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 967: 20 short stories about Joe Strummer
When Joe Strummer died on December 22, 2002, no one could believe it. First of all, the guy was only 50. Second, here was someone who ran marathons. Third, he’d been a strict
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Ongoing History Daily: The Pogue who waved his junk at trains
Shane MacGowan, the once dentally-challenged heavy-drinking frontman of The Pogues has been mates with Bono for years. He tells a story of a visit he made to Bono’s guest house on the south
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Ongoing History Daily: The Pogues’ signing bonus
There are many stories about the Pogues, the punky Irish band with the dentally challenged Shane McGowan down front. One of the best has to do with how they were signed to their
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Random music news for Thursday, August 11, 2022
If you feel that the world is spinning faster than ever before, you’re not wrong. Literally not wrong. Now try some music news for August 11, 2022. RIP Motown writing legend Lamont Dozier.
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Random music news for Monday, December 20, 2021
Have you noticed more road rage these days? Some people have. Keep that in mind after you browse through music news for December 20, 2021. Evanescence’s world tour has been halted because a
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Random music news for Thursday, November 18, 2021
A phone for dogs? What will they think of next? How much do artists get paid from streaming platform these days? Read this This looks interesting: Encore, an interactive live music streaming app.
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