FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK
Created on 19/12/2023Latest update on 19/12/2023
Artist: Pogues feat; Kirsty MacColl
Author: Shane MacGowan/Jem Finer
Label: Pogue Mahone
Year: 1987
N°1 IRE & n°2 UK, on If I Should Fall From Grace With God (and also o,n Kirsty's album Galore). The second voice was written for Cait O'Riordan, but she'd left the group (for Elvis Costello).
Covers:
- 1991:
Christy Moore [sings both parts]
- 1996:
BAP feat. Nina Hagen [as Weihnachtsnaach]
- 2000:
- 2002:
Sinéad O'Connor [with Damien Dempsey]
- 2003:
Kris De Bruyne & Dani Caen [as Nieuwjaar In Brussel]
- 2007:
KT Tunstall [with Ed Harcourt]
- 2011:
Angelo Branduardi [as Favola Di Natale A New York]
- 2012:
- 2020:
- 2023:
- 2023:
Glen Hansard, Lisa O'Neill & The Pogues [at the funeral of Shane MacGowan in Limerick, causing his next of kin start singing and dancing spontaneously through the aisles of St. John's Cathedral]
