Fairytale of Salford

Dirty Old Town

Merry Christmas.

Today would have been Shane MacGowan’s 66th birthday had he not passed away on 30th November this year. There will be plenty of people today listening to his best known hit, Fairytale of New York, which he recorded in the summer of 1987 along with Kirsty MacColl. It was released as a single in time for Christmas that year (though The Pe…