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☆ The Real Story Behind Shane MacGowan’s ‘Boys of the N.Y.P.D. Choir’
  + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Michael Wilson | More About Michael Wilson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
“Fairytale of New York” also immortalizes a specific group of people doing a specific thing:“The boys of the N.Y.P.D. Choir,” Mr. MacGowan belted, “were singing ‘Galway Bay.’”Years later, the truth can be told: The boys of the N.Y.P.D. Choir did not know the words to “Galway Bay.”Also, there was no N.Y.P.D. He spun a tale that felt grounded in a real place and conjured from iconic streetscapes, where the wind goes right through you and it’s no place for the old. People who have never set foot in the city can imagine the drunk tank, and the man and woman kissing on the corner and dancing through the night.
Persons: Shane, Frank Sinatra, York ”, ” Mr, MacGowan, ’ ”, Mr, ” Organizations: Galway, Pogues Locations: New York, York, Galway Bay
☆ In Dublin’s Pubs, Raising a Farewell Pint to Shane MacGowan
  + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Ed O Loughlin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Christmas came early this year in Dublin, but too late for a beloved adopted son. On the last evening in November, a wet Thursday, cars at the rush hour stop lights blared “Fairytale of New York” on a thousand radios. From the sidewalk, you could hear drivers and passengers singing along: “The boys from the N.Y.P.D. choir still singing ‘Galway Bay,’ and the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day.”The song’s renowned lyricist and co-writer, Shane MacGowan, the British-born frontman of the punk-folk band the Pogues, died earlier that day. Ireland — his greatest muse, and ancestral home — was coming to terms with a death that had, thanks to MacGowan’s well-known addictions to alcohol and drugs, long been foretold.
Persons: Shane MacGowan, —, MacGowan Organizations: Galway, Christmas, Ireland, Big Apple Locations: Dublin, York, ’, British
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