"Fairytale of New York" BBC Reverse Censorship Decision in 24 hours


	"Fairytale of New York" BBC Reverse Censorship Decision in 24 hours

righthand

12-18-2007 7:31 PM

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My Birthday song in political correct controversial BBC stupidity with best Christmas Song. Jean MacColl, the singer’s mother, compared the song with a play. “These are a couple of characters, Irish immigrants not in the first flush of youth and this is the way they spoke,” “Shane [MacGowan] wrote the most beautiful song and you really feel for these characters. Shakespeare was quite open about certain expressions. You cannot emasculate the song. It’s absolute nonsense.”

Yesterday marked the seventh anniversary of Kirsty MacColl’s manslaughter/murder, after she was hit by a power boat while scuba diving. She was the daughter of the folk singer Ewan MacColl.

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12-18-2007 8:06 PM

righthand

Pogues track wins Christmas poll

Thursday, 16 December, 2004, 15:33 GMT

Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and the late Kirsty MacColl, has been voted favourite Christmas song in a poll by music TV channel VH1.

The track, which went to number two in 1987, beat the original Band Aid single - recorded in 1984 - into second place. Wham's Last Christmas, also released in 1984, polled at number three and Slade's Merry Xmas Everybody - first released in 1973 - was at number four. Current chart-topper Do They Know It's Christmas? came in at number five.

Fairytale of New York gained nearly a quarter of all votes cast.

12-18-2007 8:18 PM

righthand

"Fairytale of New York" is a popular Christmas song by Irish folk-rock group The Pogues, and featuring the English singer Kirsty MacColl. The song is an Irish folk style ballad, written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan, and featured on The Pogues' album If I Should Fall from Grace with God.

The song takes the form of a drunken man's Christmas Eve reverie about holidays past while sleeping off a binge in a New York City drunk tank. After an inebriated old man also incarcerated in the jail cell sings a passage from the Irish drinking ballad [i]The Rare Old Mountain D[b]...

12-20-2007 5:19 AM

JohnWaterman

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without it.

12-20-2007 8:25 AM

mickfinn

Ditto JW.

Name and shame the twerp who initiated the censorship in the first place.

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