"BBC Radio 1 will not play the original version of Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl this Christmas, because its audience may be offended by some of the lyrics" Christmas snowflakes? How appropriate.
What about those who will be offended by the interference with the original lyrics? Shane MacGowan explained last year why the lyrics are what they are. What's next BBC rewrite history because they don't like the reality?
Hopefully R2, the station listened to by 27 year olds, will continue to play the original uncensored version.Â
However, censorship of this song is not a new phenomenon ... I remember a hilarious Top of the Pops with Shane McGowan obviously trying desperately to remember what he was supposed to he miming 🤣Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't think I've ever heard it or of it. Not on Belgian or French radio anyway and not on short visits to the UK cos either I arrive when the dreadful, oozy Jeremy chap is on at midday and later on I'm whizzing (with any luck) along the M4 corridor which doesn't get FM transmissions for some reason. Â
It is an absolute classic ... a very fine piece of writing ... and a teenaged @WonkyWomble  and I have sung it very loudly whilst driving around Framlingham with the windows down 🎶 🤪Â
and I’m absolutely made up that the Pogues themselves have called out that racist homophobe Laurence Fox on this one
Where are the women in Good King Wenceslas? As a woman,I think I'm going to find that carol grossly offensive. Don't start me on We Three Kings! No queens?😮 well who knows? Were any shepherdesses washing their socks by night? We need to know!
@pansyface Couldn't work out what he was saying. Hearing aids are somewhere in the house so that's all right. Googled the lyrics. I didn't really understand them, but I can appreciate that they address the female side of the Christmas story. It never registered with me before how, apart from Mary giving birth, the rest of the story is all about males.Â
The leaves have gone from the big trees. I can see some of the London skyline now. There are buildings that weren't there last year.
I'm sure they're all office towers. The world has changed. Businesses are realising that people can work from home and they don't need so much office space. Companies have relocated to Europe. What's going to happen to all this office space? It looks like the bubble has burst in a property ponzi scheme.Â
Too much to hope they could be converted to decent living quarters for people in need of homes - once they've been checked for dodgy cladding and other seedy building practices.
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What about those who will be offended by the interference with the original lyrics? Shane MacGowan explained last year why the lyrics are what they are. What's next BBC rewrite history because they don't like the reality?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
and I’m absolutely made up that the Pogues themselves have called out that racist homophobe Laurence Fox on this one
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/fairytale-of-new-york-pogues-laurence-fox-b1744778.html
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Don't start me on We Three Kings! No queens?😮 well who knows?
Were any shepherdesses washing their socks by night? We need to know!
Googled the lyrics. I didn't really understand them, but I can appreciate that they address the female side of the Christmas story. It never registered with me before how, apart from Mary giving birth, the rest of the story is all about males.Â
I'm sure they're all office towers. The world has changed. Businesses are realising that people can work from home and they don't need so much office space. Companies have relocated to Europe. What's going to happen to all this office space?
It looks like the bubble has burst in a property ponzi scheme.Â