Fairytale of New York - still censored

[dipsydoodle]

Radio 1 censors Pogues' Fairytale

Kirsty MacColl sang with the Pogues on the 1987 hit

BBC Radio 1 has said it will stand by its ban on the word "faggot" from the Pogues' 1987 Christmas hit Fairytale of New York to avoid offence.

The word, sung by the late Kirsty MacColl as she trades insults with Shane MacGowan, has been dubbed out.

But MacColl's mother, Jean, called the ban "too ridiculous", while the Pogues said they found it "amusing".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7149525.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltiY-BqvOIU
and live version here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrAwK9juhhY

What makes it even more farcical is that BBC Radio 1 edits it and BBC Radio 2 don't.....:rofl:

It has been the #1 favorite Christmas song here for years and years.

[Kolesar]

1. The studio and the magazine with the Top Ten list collude to pump the song every Christmas

You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot

Rhyme does not get any better than that. Cleveland has a respectable Pogues' cover band who does a Christmas show every year and covers that song.

[dipsydoodle]

2. The real reference

is to food and maybe you've <not you literally> got to be English or Irish to grasp that. See here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food) The issue is alternative missuse of the word which is isn't our, I'm english , problem. If it really is/was an issue then why not delete fairy too. :shrug:

It doesn't need pushing here at Xmas because the Pogues and Kirtsy remain popular anyway. We've got some cover bands too but there is no real substitute for Shane. Here's another classic : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au30c9ZMIPg Sadly the Dubliner's Ronnie Drew died this week.

The Dubliner's came to fame outside of Ireland with Seven drunken nights and from memory that was edited at point of recording - the original words were not actually "you silly old fool" ............lol. For history see here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Drunken_Nights