"In 'Fairytale Of New York' by 'The Pogues', ""the boys of the NYPD choir were singing ............"", which song?"
"Dillon, who was sober, had to intervene and reassure the police that there would be no problems. The chorus of the song includes the line ""The boys of the NYPD choir still singing 'Galway Bay'"". In reality, the NYPD (New York City Police Department) does not have a choir, the closest thing being the Pipes and Drums of the NYPD's Emerald Society who are featured in the video for the song. The NYPD Pipes and Drums did not know ""Galway Bay"" and so sang a song that all of them knew the words to – the ""Mickey Mouse March"", the"
"Fairytale of New York ""Fairytale of New York"" is a song written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan and recorded by their band the Pogues, featuring singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl on vocals. The song is an Irish folk-style ballad and was written as a duet, with the Pogues' singer MacGowan taking the role of the male character and MacColl the female character. It was originally released as a single on 23 November 1987 and later featured on the Pogues' 1988 album ""If I Should Fall from Grace with God"". Originally begun in 1985, the song had a troubled two-year development history,"
"MacGowan called it ""the sort of weird impossible name that always wins a race"". ""Fairytale of New York"" remains The Pogues' best known and best-selling single. It was named after J.P. Donleavy's 1973 novel ""A Fairy Tale of New York"" which Finer had been reading in the studio when the song was first written. The song dated back to 1985 when Finer had written the original melody and lyrics, about a sailor looking out over the ocean, but he admitted that his lyrics had been terrible and MacGowan had come up with a better storyline of a couple arguing in"
"""Fairytale of New York"". Another inspiration was Sergio Leone's film ""Once Upon a Time in America"", which MacGowan and whistle player Spider Stacy would watch over and over again in the tour bus. Apart from shaping the ideas for the lyrics, MacGowan wrote a slow, piano-based introduction to ""Fairytale of New York"" influenced by the film's score by Ennio Morricone: the intro would later be edited together with the more upbeat original melody to create the final song. As 1986 went on, however, the Pogues encountered various problems that brought a halt to their recording activity. Their record label Stiff"
"same time, while 'Mel & Kim' released a cover of ""Rocking Around The Christmas Tree"" - however, this referred to comedian Mel Smith and singer Kim Wilde rather than the girl group of the same name, proceeds went to the charity Comic Relief. A very popular Christmas song released this year was a collaboration with Irish band The Pogues and singer Kirsty MacColl, with the song ""Fairytale of New York"". With its bitter tale about the breakup of two lovers, it was very different from other Christmas songs around. In the end, it was the Pet Shop Boys who had"
"""Fairytale of New York"" (with bass player Cait O'Riordan singing the female part of the duet) and a cover version of The Lovin' Spoonful's song ""Do You Believe In Magic"". Both tracks were intended to feature on the EP, but were eventually left off it. The tracks were later issued on ""Just Look Them Straight in the Eye and Say... POGUE MAHONE!!"" ""Planxty Noel Hill"" refers to Noel Hill, a renowned traditional Irish musician who, at the time of the release of the band's second album, ""Rum Sodomy and the Lash"", claimed that The Pogues were disrespecting the whole Irish"
"Christmas (Creeper EP) Christmas is the fourth extended play (EP) by English punk rock band Creeper. Released on 8 December 2017 by Roadrunner Records, it features cover versions of two popular Christmas songs – ""Fairytale of New York"", originally recorded by The Pogues, and ""Blue Christmas"", most famously recorded by Elvis Presley – as well as an original track called ""Same Time Next Year?"". The EP was preceded by the release of ""Fairytale of New York"" as a single on 1 December 2017. Creeper's ""Christmas"" EP was announced on 1 December 2017, with the band's recording of The Pogues' ""Fairytale"
"the Irish immigrant down on his luck in the Big Apple"" — and Irish Gaelic footballer Alisha Jordan, who was inspired by the song's words to recover and to not be overcome by facial injuries she received when a stranger attacked her in a New York City street. Note: Shanne Bradley was one of MacGowan's bandmates in his previous group The Nips. Live tracks recorded at Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, 1987 Fairytale of New York ""Fairytale of New York"" is a song written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan and recorded by their band the Pogues, featuring singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl on"
"New York City at Christmas time. MacGowan had always intended the song to be sung as a duet, originally with O'Riordan providing the female vocal part, but despite attempts to record ""Fairytale of New York"" in January 1986 during the sessions for ""Poguetry in Motion"", the band were unhappy with the results and abandoned the song. During the sessions for the third album at RAK in May 1987, MacGowan recorded new guide vocals for the song but with O'Riordan's departure it now had no female vocalist. Lillywhite took the tapes home and recorded his singer-songwriter wife Kirsty MacColl singing the"
"Lillywhite worked with the Pogues, producing ""Fairytale of New York"". His wife, Kirsty MacColl, provided the lead female vocal for the song, which became the band's biggest hit. The single narrowly missed being the UK Christmas number one single, but was still one of the biggest selling records that year. The song ""Cotton Fields,"" from the Pogues' 1989 album ""Peace and Love"" (also produced by Lillywhite), includes a reference to ""Steve Lillywhite's drunken mix"". During the 1990s, Lillywhite produced the multi platinum albums ""Under the Table and Dreaming"", ""Crash"", and ""Before These Crowded Streets"" by the Dave Matthews Band. In"
"climbing to #12 a week later. MacColl's collaboration with the Pogues, ""Fairytale of New York"", remains a perennial Christmas favourite. In 2004, 2005 and 2006, it was voted favourite Christmas song in a poll by music video channel VH1. The song was re-released in the UK in December 2005, with proceeds being split between the Justice for Kirsty Campaign and charities for the homeless. The re-release reached number 3 on the UK charts, and spent five weeks in the top 75 over the Christmas and New Year period. It reached the top 10 for the third time in its history"
"2004 to 2009 for further tours, including headline slots at Guilfest in England and the Azkena Rock Festival in Spain. In May 2005, MacGowan rejoined The Pogues permanently. That same year, The Pogues re-released ""Fairytale of New York"" to raise funds for the Justice For Kirsty Campaign and Crisis at Christmas. The single was the best-selling festive-themed single of 2005, reaching number 3 in the UK Charts that year. In 2006, he was voted 50th in the ""NME"" Rock Heroes List. He has been seen many times with The Libertines and Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty. MacGowan has joined Babyshambles on"
"relatively popular in the UK and Ireland, it remains largely overshadowed by a collection of chart hits recorded in a bid to be crowned the UK Christmas number one single during the 1970s and 1980s. Band Aid's 1984 song ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" is the second best selling single in UK Chart history. The 1987 single ""Fairytale of New York"" by The Pogues, a rock band from London, is regularly voted the British public's favourite ever Christmas song, and it is also the most-played Christmas song of the 21st century in the UK. British glam rock bands had major"
"86 weeks on the official UK Top 75 (as of w/e 20 December 2018), making it the fifth most charted song of all time. In late 2012 it was declared a UK million-seller. On 22 December 2005, The Pogues performed the song on a ""Friday Night with Jonathan Ross"" Christmas special on BBC One in the UK, with the female vocals taken by singer Katie Melua. ""Fairytale of New York"" was announced as Britain's ""favourite Christmas song"" in a 90-minute special on ITV on 22 December 2012, following a nationwide survey of ITV viewers, despite not being a Christmas song,"
"by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra (with a vocal by Bing Crosby), and the High Hatters. The song has been used in other movies, including ""Monkey Business"" (1931), where the Marx Brothers steal Chevalier's passport and sing this song to try to prove they are Chevalier as they attempt to pass through US Customs. The song is a well-known standard, recorded by many artists, though Chevalier's versions (in English and French) and Frank Sinatra's version are best known. The song was referenced in the 1963 comedy ""A New Kind of Love"", starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and featuring Chevalier"
"heaping helping of puns and double (and triple) entendres."" The New Yorkers The New Yorkers is a musical written by Cole Porter (lyrics and music) and Herbert Fields (book). Star Jimmy Durante also wrote the words and music for the songs in which his character was featured. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1930. It is based on a story by cartoonist for ""The New Yorker"", Peter Arno, and E. Ray Goetz. The musical satirizes New York types, from high society matrons to con men, bootleggers, thieves and prostitutes during Prohibition. The musical includes Porter's famous, sad song about a"
"""Fairytale of New York"" by the Irish folk-punk band The Pogues playing a cop who escorts lead singer Shane MacGowan into the ""drunk tank"". In 2007, the band Dinosaur Jr. hired Dillon to direct the video for their single ""Been There All The Time"" from the album ""Beyond"". That year, he guest-starred on ""The Simpsons"" episode ""Midnight Towboy"". Early in 2015 he played the role of a Secret Service agent in the FOX 10-episode series ""Wayward Pines"". In November 2016, Lars von Trier announced that Dillon would play the lead role in his upcoming thriller ""The House That Jack Built""."
"song that has the monkey and the weasel in the song, as the monkey is shown chasing the weasel, but it had them switch their body parts as part of a series of ""What if..."" cartoons directed, produced, designed, and animated by Cliff Roberts. In a 1997 episode of ""NYPD Blue"" titled ""The Truth Is Out There"", detective Andy Sipowicz is bothered by the fact that he sang ""Pop Goes the Weasel"" to his child but had no idea what it meant. Throughout the remainder of the episode, the detectives ask various suspects and witnesses what the song means but"
"by New York gospel choir, The New Voices of Freedom, appears on the soundtrack to the 1988 Bill Murray film ""Scrooged"". It was recorded following U2's performance of ""I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"" with the choir at Madison Square Garden, which appears on the band's 1988 album ""Rattle and Hum"". To promote the release of the single in 1998, Island Records distributed ""Sweetest Thing"" chocolate bars, wrapped to look like the single, throughout Europe. They have become a very valuable collectors item among U2 fans during the 2000s. The song reached number one in both Canada and"
"New York (Snow Patrol song) ""New York"" is a song by Northern Irish alternative rock group Snow Patrol. The track is the third single from the band's sixth studio album, ""Fallen Empires"". It was released as a digital download on 20 December 2011 in the US. Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody struggled with writer's block when penning ""Fallen Empires"". Speaking to Q magazine, the singer explained how a chance meeting with R.E.M. vocalist Michael Stipe at a Californian studio rejuvenated his writing process. He recalled, ""I couldn't even write my name on a cheque. It was that bad at the"
"Manhattan (song) ""Manhattan"" is a popular song and part of the Great American Songbook. It has been performed by the Supremes, Lee Wiley, Oscar Peterson, Blossom Dearie, Tony Martin, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme, among many others. It is often known as ""We'll Have Manhattan"" based on the opening line. The music was written by Richard Rodgers and the words by Lorenz Hart for the 1925 revue ""Garrick Gaieties"". It was introduced by Sterling Holloway (later the voice of the animated Winnie the Pooh) and June Cochran. The song describes, in several choruses, the simple delights of Manhattan"
"""Fairytale of New York"", a performance of ""Roll with It"" by Oasis in which Noel and Liam Gallagher exchanged roles with Noel miming to Liam's singing track and Liam pretending to play guitar, and John Peel's appearance as the mandolin soloist for Rod Stewart on ""Maggie May"". During their performance of ""Don't leave me this way"" The Communards singers Jimmy Somerville and Sarah Jane Morris swapped lyrics for part of the song towards the end. The miming policy also led to the occasional technical hitch. A famous example of this is the performance of ""Martha's Harbour"" in 1988 by All"
"Jet Boy ""Jet Boy"" is the closing track and second 7"" single from the New York Dolls' self titled debut album. It was written by Dolls lead singer David Johansen and guitarist Johnny Thunders. The lyrics are simply about a jet boy who stole his baby. There is little explanation as to what a jet boy is other than to say that he flies around New York City. Tony Glover of ""Rolling Stone"" described the song as ""Marvel Comics meets the Lower East Side."" The New York Dolls famously performed ""Jet Boy"" on ""The Old Grey Whistle Test"" on 27"
"three dates. Japan is the last place they all played together before MacGowan was originally sacked in 1991, and they have a strong following there. They played a date in Spain in early September. The reunited Pogues played dates in the UK with support from the Dropkick Murphys in late 2005, and re-released their 1987 Christmas classic ""Fairytale of New York"" on 19 December, which went straight in at No. 3 in the UK Singles charts on Christmas Day 2005, showing the song's enduring popularity. On 22 December 2005 the BBC broadcast a live performance (recorded the previous week) on"
"the UK in 2016. As of September 2017 the song has sold 1,217,112 copies in the UK, with an additional 249,626 streaming equivalent sales, for a total of 1,466,737 combined sales. In the UK, it is the most-played Christmas song of the 21st century. ""Fairytale of New York"" has been cited as the best Christmas song of all time in various television, radio and magazine related polls in the UK and Ireland. Although there is agreement among the band that ""Fairytale of New York"" was first written in 1985, the origins of the song are disputed. MacGowan insisted that it"
"New York City Boy ""New York City Boy"" is a song by British music group Pet Shop Boys. It was released in September 1999 as the second single from the forthcoming album ""Nightlife"". In the UK, the single peaked at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart. In the US, the song hit number 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart and number 53 on the Hot Singles Sales chart. The music video for the song features the legendary New York nightspot Studio 54. The second B-side, ""Casting a Shadow"", was written for BBC Radio 1 during the 11"
"as an edited version in 1970. ""Rolling Stone"" magazine ranked Darlene Love's version of ""Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"" (1963) first on its list of The Greatest Rock and Roll Christmas Songs in December 2010. Carey's ""All I Want for Christmas Is You"", co-written by Carey and Walter Afanasieff, was No. 1 on Billboard's Holiday Digital Songs chart in December 2013. ""Fairytale of New York"" by The Pogues is cited as the best Christmas song of all time in various television, radio and magazine related polls in the U.K. and Ireland. Approximately half of the 30 best-selling Christmas songs by"
"If I Should Fall from Grace with God (song) ""If I Should Fall from Grace with God"" was a single released by The Pogues in February 1988, from the album of the same name ""If I Should Fall from Grace with God"" (released in January 1988). It followed the band's Christmas classic, ""Fairytale of New York"", but did not enjoy the same widespread success, stalling at Number 58 in the UK singles Chart. The video for the single was filmed at a live show. An earlier recording of the song, performed at a slower tempo, appeared on the ""Straight to"
"Valle Hippodrome, in Rome. The song's lyrics talk about the group's affection for their homeplace, New York City. It also alludes to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The song samples ""Sonic Reducer"" by The Dead Boys, and also features a brief sample of ""New York's My Home"" by Robert Goulet. The Goulet sample was cut from the ""Solid Gold Hits"" version of the song. In the pilot of Succession, Kendall Roy is introduced singing along to the song on headphones. An Open Letter to NYC ""An Open Letter to NYC"" is a song by American hip hop group the Beastie Boys."
"The New Yorkers The New Yorkers is a musical written by Cole Porter (lyrics and music) and Herbert Fields (book). Star Jimmy Durante also wrote the words and music for the songs in which his character was featured. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1930. It is based on a story by cartoonist for ""The New Yorker"", Peter Arno, and E. Ray Goetz. The musical satirizes New York types, from high society matrons to con men, bootleggers, thieves and prostitutes during Prohibition. The musical includes Porter's famous, sad song about a prostitute, ""Love for Sale"", which was banned from the"
"Maker"" in its 1985 Christmas issue: MacGowan had decided to name the song after J. P. Donleavy's 1973 novel ""A Fairy Tale of New York"", which Finer was reading at the time and had left lying around the recording studio. In the same ""Melody Maker"" interview MacGowan expressed regret that the song had not been completed in time to be released for Christmas that year, and hinted that the track would appear on an EP that the Pogues were due to record shortly. In January 1986 the group recorded the song during the sessions with Costello that would produce the"
"The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil ""The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil"" is a song by the American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane. Written by Paul Kantner, the song initially appeared as an RCA Victor single, and then subsequently as the first track of their third album, ""After Bathing at Baxter's"", in a substantially remixed version. The title of the song refers to Winnie the Pooh as well as the folk singer Fred Neil. Parts of the lyric are taken from A. A. Milne's first book of children's poetry, ""When We Were Very Young"". The first"
"out its ""obscene"" lyrics, and announced that he would no longer play the song during his show. The BBC subsequently restricted the song to evening airplay. When the band made statements in a ""Daily Express"" interview confirming the possibility of sexual connotations in the lyrics, the BBC banned ""Relax"" entirely. The ban only increased interest in the single, causing it to become the number-one song in Britain only two weeks later. In December 2007, BBC Radio 1 began to play a version of The Pogues' popular Christmas song ""Fairytale of New York"" that censored the words ""faggot"" and ""slut"" from"