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Shane MacGowan's 'Fairytale Of New York'

Shane MacGowan's 'Fairytale Of New York'

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Glen Hansard, right, leads the Pogues at Shane MacGowan’s funeral

You may not know that you need to see this clip below, but I tell you, friend, you do. It’s Glen Hansard, Lisa O’Neill, and the surviving members of the Pogues sending off the Irish band’s frontman Shane MacGowan at his Tipperary funeral, with a rousing rendition of “Fairytale of New York.…

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