Safe and sound. Tom Brokaw and his wife, Meredith Lynn Auld, narrowly made it out of their New York City apartment building after a fire broke out on New Year’s Day.
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Debbie Harry and Jesse Malin took the stage at a benefit concert for the Joe Strummer Foundation on Saturday (Dec. 14) to deliver a rollicking cover of the Pogues' 1987 hit "Fairytale of New York."
In a nod to the Clash co-founder's brief stint touring with the Celtic punk band in the late '80s, the duo handily stepped into the shoes of Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan and late singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl.
"They've got cars big as bars/ They've got rivers of gold/ But the wind goes right
Safe and sound. Tom Brokaw and his wife, Meredith Lynn Auld, narrowly made it out of their New York City apartment building after a fire broke out on New Year’s Day.
The state of New York has offered up a $3.5 million grant in order to help with the construction of a Hip Hop museum in the Bronx, according to the New York Post. The museum would be the first like it in the world. With a total price tag of $80 million, the Universal Hip Hop Museum is set to open in 2023 in the genre, culture and movement's birthplace, the South Bronx.
Recorded in the summer of 1987 and released later that year, The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" famously never made it to number one in the U.K. first time around, held off the top spot by Pet Shop Boys’ version of “Always On My Mind.” The song, which took over two years to write and features the late, great Kirsty MacColl, has come close several times in the
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Need further proof that it's the most wonderful time of the year? After Mariah Carey's Christmas show at New York's Madison Square Garden on Sunday night (Dec.
Shane MacGowan has defended the use of the word f****t in his iconic Christmas favourite Fairytale of New York. Some radio stations now only play an edited version after complaints about the lyric in the 1987 hit.
It was New York's turn to celebrate the holiday season on Friday night (Dec. 13), as iHeartRadio's Jingle Ball lit up Madison Square Garden with the likes of Lizzo, Camila Cabello, Jonas Brothers and birthday girl Taylor Swift.