For a man who disliked American-inflected pop, Ewan MacColl wrote some matchless international hits. “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”, covered by the Chicago soulstress Roberta Flack, is as ...
"Dirty Old Town" being sung by a Dublin bartender? Nothing better. It’s a scene familiar to plenty of pub patrons - at the end of the night (and a feed of pints) someone is bound to begin an earnest ...
Dubliners burst into spontaneous renditions of Dirty Old Town and Fairytale of New York by The Pogues awaiting the funeral procession of the band’s beloved frontman Shane MacGowan. The cortege will ...
Pete Doherty made a rare TV appearance on Channel 4 comedy talk show The Last Leg on Friday night (24 February). The Libertines frontman, 43, performed The Pogues’ 1985 classic “Dirty Old Town”, ...
They are metal giants that have been part of Salford's skyline for 100 years. Ewan MacColl immortalised them in his ode to the city, Dirty Old Town. One version of it opens with the lyric: "I met my ...
“Ewan MacColl didn’t want to be from Salford, from what he thought of as a filthy, industrial place,” says Peggy Seeger, the late singer-songwriter’s widow. “He used to insist later he came from ...
Ewan MacColl knew it well. His ode to Salford, Dirty Old Town, opens with the lyric: “I met my love by the gasworks wall/Dreamed a dream by the old canal.” Now the city’s rusting gasworks are to be ...
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