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The Kirsty MacColl web site
INTERVIEW
This appeared in the Daily Record newspaper in January 1988.
Billy Sloan.
It
has taken two years, but at long last the Pogues have hit the big time. For
their current smash single Fairytale In New York (sic)
was written in 1985, and the band dumped it because the original version didn't
make the grade. But a few months later they resurrected the song and,
with a little help from Kirsty MacColl, who duets with lead singer Shane MacGowan,
the Pogues are enjoying the biggest success of their incredible career.
In the great video sequence for their fiery vocal joust, Kirsty and Shane don't spare each other's blushes, but it's all just a big act. They're really great mates. And she was only too happy to give the Pogues' pin-up singer a quick kiss under the mistletoe after the band's recent festive concerts at Glasgow Barrowland. "Really, I can't stand him", joked Kirsty, "e's horrible, ain't he?". And Shane laughingly told me "I'm mad about Kirsty. But then again, I'm not married to her."
The pretty singer - who had big hits in her own right with There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis and A New England - met the Pogues through her husband, top producer Steve Lillywhite, who is working on the band's next studio album If I Should Fall From Grace With God. She and Shane immediately hit it off in the studio, and that paved the way for Fairytale In New York to become a smash hit. Kirsty had no hesitation about leaving her young sons - Jamie, three, and 15-month old Louis - at home in London to appear on stage with the Pogues in Glasgow. "The audience at the Barrowland is the best in the world" she said.
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